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Horn of Africa, It is unknown how Aksum collapsed, but historians agree…

- - - - They regularly traded with the Romans, Egypt, India, etc. Due to their great geographical location, they were the main exporters of African products to Rome.
      - Their main exports were agricultural products (wheat and barley), though the kingdom was rich in iron, gold, salt and ivory.
      - By 350 CE they had conquered the Kingdom of Kush.
    - - By the 6th century, King Kaleb was recognized as a Christian by the emperor Justin I of Byzantium (r. 518–527).
      - The king had been converted by Frumentius, a former Syrian captive who was made Bishop of Aksum.
  - - - Menelik supposedly formed the Solomonic dynasty from which the rulers of Ethiopia (up to the 1970s) are said to descend.
      - Menelik is believed to have taken The Ark of the Covenant on a visit to Jerusalem to see his father, and it is said to still be in Ethiopia.