Thomas Lessman is crazy but also handy. They're not prefect maps, but they roughly agree with the professional sources I have.
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Discussion: The Lord Reigns in Arabia (successful Aksumite siege of Mecca)
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Huehuecoyotl
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Nice. Thanks. Would there happen to also be a map of the Western Hemisphere from, say, between 750 and 800? I'm planning to do some stuff over there later on in the timeline.
He has a huge number of giant maps. He has 700 and 800. 750 is a very hard time to find maps for! I can vouch for that because of Raptor of Spain.
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What are you planning on doing with Egypt? I think an Ethiopian-ruled Coptic Egypt would be interesting.
It would be hard for Ethiopia to project power all the way to Egypt at this point in time. It lacks the state institutions to control such a large empire at this time. It possesses no technological, organizational, or morale superiority over the Byzantines. And it is much harder to project and supply an army from Ethiopia across the sudan and Sahara to Egypt than Byzantium could over the Mediterranean Sea.
If Egypt ever rebels though, then it might be able to count on some level of Aksumite support because the Egyptian Monophysite Church is the head church for them.
Aksum might be able to turn the Christian states in Nubia (Alodia, Makuria, and Nobatia) into tributaries, then vassals, and eventually incorporate them into a larger Aksumite state. That process may take centuries though to successful incorporate them for the long term (as opposed to quick conquest that eventually fails).
I think Aksum would have its hands full simply keeping Yemen and expanding into nearby regions of Africa for the next thousand years or so. But control over the Red Sea trade and continued contact with a fellow Christian great power will probably make Aksum and its successor states more developed than IOTL when it was an isolated and besieged power.
If Egypt ever rebels though, then it might be able to count on some level of Aksumite support because the Egyptian Monophysite Church is the head church for them.
Aksum might be able to turn the Christian states in Nubia (Alodia, Makuria, and Nobatia) into tributaries, then vassals, and eventually incorporate them into a larger Aksumite state. That process may take centuries though to successful incorporate them for the long term (as opposed to quick conquest that eventually fails).
I think Aksum would have its hands full simply keeping Yemen and expanding into nearby regions of Africa for the next thousand years or so. But control over the Red Sea trade and continued contact with a fellow Christian great power will probably make Aksum and its successor states more developed than IOTL when it was an isolated and besieged power.
Huehuecoyotl
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Thanks for the map, BG, and for the input so far, everyone. 
I have big plans for the TL, and I'll have a new update up tomorrow or on Friday.
I have big plans for the TL, and I'll have a new update up tomorrow or on Friday.We? Just me. I hate him because his maps are great so I emailed him to ask if I could get his blank map or even how he came up with it and he never even bothered to respond to me. I didn't even email him during the school year so as not to detract from any classes he would be teaching.
If he doesn't want to give me the map fine, but don't pretend I don't exist.
Huehuecoyotl
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A rough draft of the Mediterranean and Aksumite world in Lord Reigns, ca. AD 600. The Romans have expanded in Spain and North Africa, Aksum has conquered much of Arabia, and the Lombards remain in OTL Hungary.
