Aksumites

The  are a culture available in the Classical Era, with the Merchant culture focus.

"A culture enjoying great natural wealth -- living, mineral, and elemental -- with territory from rainy, fertile plateaus to dry, hot seaports, the Aksumites are a trading powerhouse."

Trait: Horn of plenty

 * generated from on-going trade on city or outpost

Emblematic quarter: Great Obelisk
“Used as graves for kings, the Great Obelisks were among some of the tallest and heaviest monoliths humanity had ever erected.”

Emblematic unit: Shotelai
“The shotelai use curved swords, or shotel, in battle to help them reach behind enemy shields and other types of protection.”

City names
The names listed are default names, players can change their cities' names if they choose.

Aksum, Adulis, Däqqi Mäḥari, Ḥawǝlti, Käskäsé, Mäṭära, Qoḥayto, Toḵonda, Wakarida, Yǝḥa


 * The first new city found by this culture will use the first name on the city list.

Trivia

 * The in-game appearance of the Aksumite City Center is based on a reconstruction of Ta'akha Maryam Palace, a now-ruined palace built by the Kingdom of Axum in early 6th century.