Question
This figure was legendarily exiled after a priest of the Church of Saint Mary of Zion ripped off part of a curtain to craft golden shoes in an attempt to convince her to be his mistress. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this figure whose burning of churches during was referenced by both ibn Ḥawqal, who described her as the queen of the Bani al-Hamwiyah.
ANSWER: Gudit [or Yodit or Judith; accept Ga’wa or Gwedit; accept Esato or Isato]
[10m] Gudit was exiled from this city and later plundered it during the mid-10th century. She destroyed a namesake kingdom centered in this city before her territory was posthumously seized by Mara Takla Haymanot.
ANSWER: Aksum [or Axum; accept Kingdom of Aksum or Aksumite Empire]
[10e] To explain how her supposed conversion to this religion caused the anti-Christian revolt, contemporary sources compared Gudit to the Queen of Sheba converting to this religion before King Solomon.
ANSWER: Judaism [or Jewish faith; or Yahadut]
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