Comments by "Enrico" (@enrico7474) on "Kings of Solomon: Church and State - Ethiopian Empire - Part 3 - Extra History" video.

Abyssinia controlled both massawa (a port in the redsea) and zeila (a port on the indian ocean) so they definitely played a big part the ottomans would later take massawa to solidify their rule over the redsea this speaks about its importance .
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@Sean Mcloughlin It was well known that ethiopia was an orthodox state much befkre thr Portuguese arrived tho there were even attempts made by rome to unify the Ethiopian church with rome but it was unsuccessful, the Portuguese were heavily invested in Ethiopia after the war many jesuits arrived to convert the population and letters were sent back and forth between ethiopia and Portugal, there was even a Portuguese town called fremona, the Portuguese would remain in Ethiopia until they were finally kicked out by emperor fasil more than a century later.
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@Robert Jarman Well there was soem wars and stuff in abyssinia but it wasnt as chaotic and divded as the HRE.
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It was hararis , amde tsion mentioned that harla occupied the lad from shewa to zeila , harla are southern ethio semitic speakers their descendants include harari,eastern gurage while the gafat and arggoba are closely related but not descended from them, they have typical ethiosemtic names like dil-gamis(the person who helped yekuno amlak defeat zagwe) , dilwanbera (wife of ahmed gragn) her name literally translates to "where victory resides" the first person noted to have used the name dil is the last axumite emperor dil naod so the origin of this name cant be debated even amharic has the word dil in its vocabulary.
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Probably because their history is very speculative at best , little is written about them and their lands were throughly conquered and integrated into the larger abyssinia so we dont even know how anything worked in their lands , they had kings but that about it nothing else is known.
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As a state tho Ethiopia beats japan since Ethiopia or rather abyssinia was established in 1000bc while japan is a few centuries later and doesnt have any records to prove it(its more mythological than historical) , unlike Ethiopia where there is few but enough inscriptions to confirm its establishment around 1000bc or earlier.
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The axumites were predecessor of the solomonics not Ethiopia or abyssinia , since axumites referred to them selfs as habesha (their land habeshat) and the naem Ethiopia was first used to refer to axum by their 4th century king ezana ,after he conquered kush and pretry much took its name, the axumites were probably on the more middle Eastern side genetically ,but ethiosemitc speakers are still their direct descendants.
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No the axumite dont seem to have forced any kind of conversion, it wouldn't make sense for a trading empire with inhabitants from different parts of the wolrd to force Christianity it would be bad for their trade , well except in himyar , they went wild there. arguably speaking tho them not forcing Christianity was theri doom, because the pagan lands inhabited by ethnic axumites (ethiosemitic speakers) would convert to islam(creating the first sultanet in the horn of africa) by force in the 8-9th century and that proved catastrophic for the late axumute empire, the same sultanet (called makhzumi/shewa) would help yekuno amlak (the first solomonic monarch) take over zagwe, so i think that makes them even.
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