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 * THE DECLINE OF MEROE**

From about 250 B.C. to 150 A.D. Meroe began to decline. Aksum, another kingdom located 400 miles to the southeast, contributed to Meroe's fall. With a seaport on the Res Sea, Aksum came to dominate North African trade. Aksum defeated Meroe around 350 A.D. Centuries earlier, around the time the Kushite pharoah sat on the Egyptian throne, a ne empire-Assyria-had risen in the north. Like Kush, Assyria came to dominate Egypt.