distinctive features nubia became center iron making cotton cloth manufacturing egyptian writing replaced meroitic alphabet lion god apedemak added egyptian pantheon gods trade links red sea increased linking nubia mediterranean greece architecture art diversified pictures lions ostriches giraffes elephants eventually rise aksum nubia 's trade links broken suffered environmental degradation tree cutting required iron production ad aksumite king ezana brought mer e end carthage carthaginian empire egyptians referred
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