ethiopia

Ming China's Yongle Emperor sent maritime expeditions under Admiral Zheng He to establish imperial control over the maritime trade, to bring the maritime trade into the tributary system and to force foreign countries to comply with the tributary system. But the expeditions were stopped to divert...

In Egyptian–Ethiopian War the Khedivate of Egypt Isma'il Pasha invaded the Ethiopian Empire under Yohannes IV in 1874. But the Egyptian army was ambushed by the Ethiopians at Gundet in a mountain pass . Later at Gura Egyptian demolition of trenches despite advice of foreign commander lead to...

is there a way for Ethiopia to have expanded and conquered the entire Sahel region, maybe to get closer to Christian Europe?

This is a timeline idea I had floating around for a month or two, and we'll see how it goes. The short of it is: Mussolini is assassinated in 1934 Balbo takes over Italy neutral in WW2 I will avoid giving more, as the details of the timeline are meant to be trickled slowly. I will also be...

The last Eithiopian monarch, Haile Selassie (birth name Tafari Makonnen), was mired in political intrigue and turmoil long before he took the throne, having become regent of the empire in 1916. Despite running most day to day affairs during this time, however, his ability to enact any meaningful...

Being one of two African nations to have avoid being colonized during the scramble for Africa and being the only African nation to successfully fend of a European invasion Ethiopia had the best shot in Africa of becoming an industrial power. Your challenge is to have Ethiopia industrialize and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_Abyssinia During the early days of Islam, in 613 AD, a group of Muslims fled to the kingdom of Aksum in order to escape persecution by the Quraysh. The king, Najashi, not only gave them shelter but also rebuked a Quraysh delegation calling for their...

Ok, let's say that the attempt to bomb WTC in february 1993 is successful and US invades Sudan during spring the same year (because Sudan at the time hosted Al-Qaeda). Could the Ethiopian government of Meles Zenawi use this as an opportunity to postpone the Eritrean independence referendum...

Could a cradle of civilization emerge in the highlands of ethiopia? Are the native crops, geography and climate suitable enough?

Of course for rapid industrialization, you need many well-educated people which Ethiopia simply did not have. So, China, North Korea, and every country in the warsaw pact donate a dozen educated people each to work for Ethiopia's communist party, in exchange. After 1 year Ethiopia will give each...

I only know of another case similar to Japan, with Paraguay prior to the War. I will not count Ethiopia or Thailand, maybe Liberia.

Plausibility check : How early can Egypt Conquer and assimilate Mediterranean and Ethiopia ?

Plausibility check : How much can Ancient Egypt expand and settle in Mediterranean and Africa without touching Mesopotamia from Narmer until Hyksos with continuous wars of expansion, full political and religious support and without dynastic change or wars of succession ? direction of expansion

Christianity has its origins in Roman-occupied Judaea, and became a global cultural force largely because of the Roman Empire. Constantine the Great made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire, and he also convened the First Council of Nicaea to standardise Christian doctrine and dogma for the...

The Zemene Mesafint was a period in Ethiopian history where the emperor had little influence outside the capital city of Gondar and were reduced to de facto figureheads as the various lords of the country constantly fought each other. While the Solomonic dynasty continued in name because its...

The Ogaden War was one of those conflicts where you couldn't help but hope that both sides would somehow lose in the end. Fought between the totalitarian, genocidal Derg regime of Ethiopia and the similarly totalitarian, genocidal Somali Democratic Republic, the war was fought over the disputed...

Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Ethiopia had no effective central authority, and the country was de facto divided within itself. There was constant fighting between the various magnates of the country, the emperor was reduced to a figurehead, and the era only ended with the rise of...

Starting in the mid-late 18th century, what would happen if Ethiopia were to conquer Sudan, Eritrea, and Somalia and Modernize at the same rate as Europe? Would Ethiopia be treated as an equal to Europe? Could they carve a sphere of influence out of the middle east and get a Chinese treaty port...

Hello there, in a series of continuing posts I plan on creating (or rather expanding and maintaining) a greater Aksumite/Abbysinian/Ethiopian Empire with the goal of it becoming something akin to that of Europes Habsburgs domains with colonies, kingdoms, duchies, and nation-states of their own...

The challenge is to make Ethiopia, which has a long history with Judaism and its own Jewish community, the primary refuge of Jews around the world. Is it possible?