Seeing as though I get loads of comments saying something like "Italy never conquered Ethiopia..." I'll copy and paste a response I gave to someone. I think this is just a case of semantics. More often than not the 2 (conquer/invade) are interchangable, for instance you could say the Norman invasion/conquest of England. And this is how I use it, but I'm still going to defend my choice of words because I'm just like that. Especially because A lot of people have said this and it seems that Ethiopian nationalists get riled up over which word is chosen (of course I can hazard a guess as to why they care so much). But I think the Italians didn't just "stay." And you also couldn't say it was an occupation because that usually doesn't involve direct rule or annexation. The Ethiopian government on the otherhand was ousted, it was absorbed into Italian East Africa and Italy acted like a conqueror by building roads, redesigning Cities and recruiting locals into their armies. Sure it was very brief and their control was limited. And I often hear the military resistance proves it wasn't a conquest, but I think you'd struggle to find a conquest that didn't face opposition, sometimes for centuries. I'd say there are instances when the terms aren't so interchangeable - for instance Germany invaded Russia but didn't conquer it. But I think you could say Ethiopia was briefly conquered if you go by this definition: "the subjugation and assumption of control of a place or people by military force." You may have a different definition, however I think we will just start endlessly splitting hairs.
Jabzy we more or less did this because some time ago Italy claimed it has conquered/ annexed us ( illegal claims ) and we can't tel them do that lol. Sadly our monarchy did get overthrown and our country soon fell into chaos after it...well so did Italy...i guess we are not so different after all :/
Jabzy so was is an invasion or conquest when america went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan? ..they did build infrastructure to make it more accessible for them
In my opinion the Italians failed at colonizing Ethiopia, a five year occupation using advanced weapons and mustard gas did nothing for Italy. They gained almost nothing, and Ethiopia shows few Italian influences today. The Ethiopians destroyed them, and they only won the second war due to a large army, and mustard gas usage.
The colonized it but failed to win ww2 and keep it. Had it not been for the british and the UN ethiopia would have been colonized longer. After ww2 Italy was foced to relinquish italian east africa and only keep their other colonies as trusteeships under the UN. The Ethiopians destroyed them. Yet you say and they only won the second war due to a large army, and mustard gas usage. How on earth is that ethiopia destroying anyone?
italy never colonized ethiopia because to colonyze a land the most important hing is the language ! if Ethiopia speak italian as official language the colonization was accomplished oppsite NO
there were several battles between the wyt ppl and zulus lmao just stop... the best weapon in that entire effort was Shaka zulu was a fucking idiot who didn't realize what was going on. This nigga thought their inventions were witch craft but still they jumped out bushes with spears and wrecked white boys for years. It took 500 years plus the invention of guns for any of this ethnic based warfare to really take off not to mention, africa had 600 ethnic groups and languages, all european romance language speaking peoples rode together against those tiny ass groups it was childsplay. So let's use context there too.
Ethiopia was and Allied Power. Some would say the first Allied Power given Salassie's UN speech calling for a united front against Fascism. If the allies won WWII, and the Ethiopian Emperor reigned and lived decades after while Mussolini was hung upside down dead after losing to the Allies, how did Ethiopia get 'conquered' by Italy. It's like saying Hitler conquered the Russia or France because of his attacks there.
Derick Ofodirinwa because there was four years of peace between the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and Italy’s entry into the Second World War. Abyssinia was recognised as Italian territory, if Italy had not entered the war it would have continued to be. Abyssinia was not an Ally, nobody would have declared war on Mussolini to help it.
2:44 “This was the first time...an African army decisively beat a European army” I think the Zulus were first with the Battle of Isandlwana, 1879, when they annihilated a British military camp and foiled the first invasion of Zulu territory. (Though the British did go on to win the war despite the initial humiliating defeat.)
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Ethiopia was never colonized did the Italians win the other war yes and they stayed for 5 years but they never colonized it they were at a constant war while they stayed they never managed to colonize or replace our culture,heritage and language with their own. Just because you occupy a place for a little while doesn't mean you have colonized it.
Jabzy If you say Ethiopia was conquered (colonized) do you also believe the 5 years occupation of Germany over Netherlands also considered as colonization? please elaborate.
Wrong info we ware nove colonized by italy and at the time of minilik we didn't get any support frome any other country all part of ethiopia with out ertiria was free we get support only frome God
@ኄኖክ ኃይሉ well in reality there were 100.000 ethipian soldiers (80.000 with modern weapons) against 17.000 italian soldiers.The italians were severely outnumbered. Moreover the ethiopian warriors knew the territory while the Italians didn't know the exact confornation of the zone. The italians understimate Ethiopia and lost the war. Tipical error of a colonial power.
@ኄኖክ ኃይሉ I'm not justifing all the Death caused by the Italian imperialism(or by the colonialism in general)but what i wrote is history. Of course the nationalism and the racism are great problems of the Human race but I'm talking about history not about antropology.
@ኄኖክ ኃይሉ you are showing the same racism of the european colonizers when you say that the European are Neanderthal. We built our culture and society as you built your. Thinking about superiority is always useless and creates only conflicts between people.
@@manto2562 By the way Ethiopians fought with shield, spear, sword and less modern weapons. And defeated in an inexpressible way. No nation did that in this world. No nation on earth. No one did that in the past. Only Ethiopians did that. And no one will do that in the future.
You should do the liberian civil or should i say uncivil war and the diamond wars plus the 2 sino japanese wars both could be a video or rolled into one.
"Fascist Italy went on to conquer Ethiopia" ...my grandmother, who was old enough to remember that war and went to school for the children of the patriots (because her father died fighting off the Italians) is strongly disagreeing.
+InfoRome so what thats wrong period they occupied parts before being purged out the land end of story there are many books and accounts that lie its called white washing / white supremacy
***** that doesnt mean ethiopia was conquered. if north korea occupied and conquered california would that mean the usa had been conquered? no it would mean it was occupied or lost some territory
Yes, at the most known battle in abyssinia history the italians were heavily outnumbered, some thing like 9 or 11 to 1. But you most understand that the source of this "unfair" battle was only because some italian leaders, including the president of that time, heavily underestimated our military power and our civilization capabilities as a whole. I am not skeptic that they thought the battle was going to look like the last battle between the zulus and the brits, where the brits were heavily outnumbered like the Italians yet won the battle.
TheCommentaryKing yeah it is a thing italy should have known before the war, and if they knew it, I don't know who was the retarded president at that time. But mussolini didn't want anything of that sort again, and brought a force of HALF A MILLION MAN in order to conquer and colonize ethiopia. I don't think any other european country used that much man power in order to colonize or conquer any african country. And in the end they even didn't colonized or conquered us effectively.
eliran789 They made a protectorate, but not an effective one or that lasted long. I can say to you that the occupation of ethiopia was only a political move to show the powers that they were powerful. The italians had good soldiers it was the leadership and the equipment that was bad
TheCommentaryKing I must agree on everything you said, and add to you last claim. Italians made more than just great soliders, but also a great nation with a great culture and many great persons throughout their history. BTW it is funny that italian leaders wanted to recreate the roman empire, and conquer abyssinia as part of their empire when in fact the roman empire and byzantine made great friends with the axumite empire.
All the people here saying ethiopia was never colonized should really look up Italian east africa. there's a reason why every single historian is saying ethiopia was conquered and colonized. There is no evidence to suggest ethiopia was occupied rather than colonized. Do some reading before spouting nationalistic propaganda.
droid root Ask your self. Did japan take all of china or just portions? Did the Chinese government continue to exist or did they get totally defeated? Was china even administered by the japanese? Unlike china, ethiopia was totally defeated, totally annexed and totally administered. Those are the differences between occupations and colonization. Just because it was short doesn't change what colonialism is. If you want an example japanese colonialism look at south east asia.
Wrong. Italy occupied some main cities like Addis Ababa, but not all of Ethiopia. Second, they didn't colonize Ethiopia. "Ethiopia was never colonized by a European power, but was occupied by Italians in 1936 (see below); however, several colonial powers had interests and designs on Ethiopia in the context of the 19th century "Scramble for Africa."
Do a video about Somali-Portuguese war and how the Somalis killed the Portuguese army leader Cristóvão da Gama Ethiopia was the only African nation who defeated a European army in modern era but the Somalis have done that long before the Ethiopians in Middle Ages
***** no the somalians had strong force and they had what is so call sultanate and after the portugues helped ethiopia somalis was stronmg enough to defend and fight back with the help of ottoman and the portuguese were kicked out of east coast of africa because of us
The Middle Ages exclude modern times, so thats why its usually not included, in the Middle Ages a lot of African countries and groups expelled Northern armies.
Why couldn't Haile Selaisse defeat the Italians in the 30s? It's also a shame that Menelik never used the opportunity granted by defeating the Italians and expanding his borders to modernise a la Japan, but of course the situation was different so maybe it wasn't possible. Even after regaining control of the country after WW2, Ethiopia couldn't jumpstart like Japan, Germnay and others, maybe they didn't get American loans like the other nations, a missed opportunity.
That was the Turks who ruled Egypt at that time, under the Ottoman rite, and the numbers of Egypt's army was so limited. If Ethiopia will fight Egypt today, Ethiopia will easily defeat by Egypt, the Ethiopian army isn't that powerful today. I'm sorry but this is a fact, not to forget that Britain was Ethiopia's ally in this war.
Romans. The Italians of today may have developed their language from Latin but the Italians have little to do with the Romans. The Italians are descendant of the Lombards, a Germanic tribe from northern Germany. their ruled the peninsula until being conquered by Charlemagne and the Franks. Overtime, the Lombards adopted the Latin language and combined it with their own Germanic language to form modern day Italian thus starting the Italian culture. By the time they did this, however, Roman culture was long dead and its language was only being used by the Catholic church for religious ceremonies
So according to you because two people are geographically living in the same area they are the same? Thats like saying Russia and the Native Americans are the same because the Native Americans crossed through eastern Siberia to get to the Americas while the Russians own that land today
Well, an interesting battle, that puts in evidence the italian lack of organization and perhaps even a bit of ego...searching i found out that italian soldiers were newly recruited people with no experience, coming from various parts of italy, equipped with old-technology weapons (they didn't use the same weapons of the main army!), and it is likely that fewer fought in the actual battle on the Italian side, Harold Marcus notes that "several thousand" soldiers were needed in support roles and to guard the lines of communication to the rear and a whole brigade was made up of Eritrean askari led by Italian officers... so, unexperienced, under-equipped,randomly chosen soldiers sent to fight, still fighting till the last ammo...
You incorrectly state that Adwa (1896;) was the first African victory over a European power. In 1879 the Zulus defeated the British at Isandlwana (1879(
I love the hypocrisy of the internet. They all bash on Italy as the big joke and bad guy of Europe (without knowing shit), while France, England and other countries are absolutely saints and haven't failed once neither in Africa or somewhere else in the world or committed crimes against the humanity. In history everyone failes. Just like the ottoman empire. They lost Lybia to a new born country in less than a year. That country was Italy, that sent illiterate farmers to fight and still won against a kicking ass world power. But no one talks about it because "it's not cool for memes" right?
I’m sorry if your perceive that Italy has been mistreated, but you have to understand the atrocity of invading another nation (let alone a Christian one. Would the Lord approve of the Catholic Church’s failure to intervene in the situation knowing that the people of Italy were going to brutally murder a Christian nation in vindictive greed for its past failures?) It doesn’t matter if France or Britain or Germany or or other Europeans nations are perceived as saints (it really doesn’t); what matters is that the people of Italy were swayed by the deceitful and chauvinistic words of a modern day autocrat and they who call themselves “Christians”, who currently house the Vatican , were manipulated to carry out a utterly immoral act. That is what matters! Italy did wrong, and you know it! Despite that, I agree, I do think that England and France’s imperialistic repercussions are not discussed as widely even though their action were force than that of Italy because they weren’t as humiliated by an African country.
@@zemichaelatnafu1121 just to reply more "coherently" to your answer, invading another country is wrong. Everyone knows it. It matters if France or other countries are perceived as absolute saints because it sways people on learning proper history. On the previous message, I was referring to the first Italo-ethiopian war. Now onto the second, what happened was an absolute fucking disgrace and my god nobody here in Italy is proud about it. It's not like we brag about colonialism like in other countries (you guess what countries). We know it's bad and we don't interfere into other countries' business (unlike other countries, you guess which ones). The thing is: why a small country is made fun for their mistakes, but not a big one? I've never fucking heard anyone mocking or insulting Germany and Austria for losing two WW and causing millions of deaths. I always hear "they fought with honor" and not "bunch of wurstel eaters, get shit on". Anyway, my point is clear: once again, if you want to live in ignorance, carry on. But don't expect to be "a man of culture" or "a war expert/hero" just because someone made a meme. Nothing personal, it's just bad education that makes me angry. 2020 and people still believe in memes. Holy jesus
Future Archduke of Eggs you need to remeber that Italy had more advance weapons, gases, bombs plus British had noting to do with the first one and even France sold some weapons to ethiopians cuz ethiopia sold djibouti to them yeah that is right ethiopia and Djibouti were same country. Only the soldiers acually not all of them had weapons.
Future Archduke of Eggs having some camps in ethiopia and call it my empire is not winning they lost twice and they know it. They were defeated by ethiopians with a support of British.
Ethiopia's claim of being the only country in Africa to never be colonized came at the expense of Eritrea's sovereignty and independence. In 1889, the Italians signed the Treaty of Wuchale with then Ethiopian king Menelik II who essentially granted Eritrea to Italy in exchange for recognition of Ethiopian sovereignty. Italy also promised Menelik II financial assistance and military supplies. Treaty of Wichale, Wichale also spelled Ucciali, (May 2, 1889), pact signed at Wichale, Ethiopia, by the Italians and Menilek II of Ethiopia, whereby Italy was granted the northern Ethiopian territories of Bogos, Hamasen, and Akale-Guzai (modern Eritrea and northern Tigray) in exchange for a sum of money and the provision of 30,000 muskets and 28 cannons. Source: www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Wichale. Eventually, Ethiopia did defeat Italy in the battle of Adwa (approx. 100,000 Ethiopians vs 20,000 Italians) and afterwards Menelik signed an agreement recognizing Eritrea as a sovereign state of Italy. Basically, Eritrea was used as a political tool to gain leverage with the Italian colonialist when it was convenient for Ethiopia's survival. This should explain the Derg's barbaric regime, Woyane's betrayal and the common attitude of entitlement towards Eritrea. Let's pray and hope for peace, it's the only way to move forward and succeed, but it's equally important to know & remember the past accurately so we don't repeat the same mistakes.
Good for Ethiopia. Say what you must like they outnumbered the Italians or the Italian army was weak or whatever. I am happy for they won and stayed a independent country whether you think it wasn't much of a defeat or not. Its good they won.
The only thing that can be safely said, is that Italy won the definition of a Pyrrhic victory here. If they realized any benefits from this occupation, they shortly lost them to incompetence and mismanagement. The whole affair was, sadly, a waste of everybody's time, money, and blood.
the Ethiopians had over 200k men with modern Russian rifles, whereas the Italians had 17k men with outdated blackpowder Vetterli Rifles. (mostly Askari) Ethiopia ended up as the victor due to the Italian public rioting over the pro-war stance of the government, forcing the Italian Expeditionary forces to withdraw. Congrats The first Decisive African victory was technically the First Zulu war, but most people don't count it because the British came back with their real army and beat them in the end. Imagine if Italy brought in it's real army... (Britain also failed it's first invasion of Benin)
3:17 conquered Ethiopia . what a joke . Stop writing your own history . We know our history . Ethiopia wasn't conquered by Italy .Now let’s have a look at Ethiopian history, specifically the years 1936 to 1941. The second Ethio-Italian war started a long time before 1935. The first Ethio-Italian war, which ended with Italy’s defeat and humiliation at Adowa in 1896, could be seen as the starting point. Italy wanted revenge and started the second war on October 3rd, 1935. It ended on May 7th, 1936 with the collapse of the Ethiopian Army, which had fought bravely but could not stand up to the poison gas and bombs raining from the Fascists’ airplanes. They marched into Addis Ababa on May 5th, 1936. It must be noted that Ethiopia never surrendered. The first of the Ethiopian patriots to start the guerilla warfare that would continue till victory day was Lij Hailemaria Mamo of Debre Damo. He attacked a convoy of Italians that were heading to Addis Ababa on May 4th, 1936 thus gaining him the name first of the Ethiopian Patriots or “Arbegna.” After him came resistance in each and every part of Ethiopia. The more the patriots fought the harsher the fascists became, and the harsher they became the more people joined the patriots. By the end of 1936, almost all of Ethiopia was up in rebellion and fighting a guerilla war. To name a very few of the patriots’ leaders: • Lij Hailemariam Mamo in and around Debre Damo • Abebe Aregay in and around Showa • Dejazmach Menegesha and Belay Zelleke in the the Gojjam are and around the Nile Gorge • Dejazmach Balcha “Aba Nefso” Safo in the Gurage lands • Dejazmach Hailu Kebede in the Lasta lands • There were Eritrean deserters who fought on the Ethiopian side, even when the patriots were losing. • This war was supported by civilians living in the occupied cities, they were called ‘Ye Wist Arbegnoch’ or the “inside warriors.” At no given time during those fives years were Italians not fighting for their lives. Apart from the cities where they had their garrisons the land a few kilometers away was controlled by the patriots and the vast countryside remained free.
+InfoRome Nope, that's referred to as whitewashing history. What do you expect to hear in the white man's “encyclopedic” book? That they lost and could not achieve full control of the land/ people? Get real mate. It was under Italian occupation not colonization, there is an immense difference between the two. There were guerrilla fighters constantly challenging Italian military occupation within the country which prohibited the Italians from getting a strong foot hold on the land. This occurred to the mere extent of five years (this is nothing). There was no slavery, injustice upon the natives, etc. during that time. The five years consisted of various breakouts of guerrilla attack tactics against the Italian military strong hold which was clinging on the edge for control. The Ethiopian people have been warding off invaders for millennia and far out numbered the Italian forces. Next time don't give me some “extension of the truth” / lie some crappy white man written encyclopedias say.
Ethiopians: 100.000, 80.000 with rifles Italians: 17.000, that fought until they ran out of ammo. Tell me, is that such a shameful defeat, do we want to talk about Isandlwana?
***** Another moron that believe in stereotypes. Italy invented the modern special forces, the paratroopers, the bombing raids and the armored cars, so shut up
Jon Snow The italian army was under-equipped, but the british historian covered his performance with anti-italian propaganda and stereotypes. Study some real history. forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=210001 madmonarchist.blogspot.it/2015/03/the-truth-about-italian-war-record.html?m=1
Another moron that apparently didn't even read the links. Listen pal, Italy fought in 9 wars and won 7 of them, in ww1 Italy won and in ww2 it wasn't defeated easily as many people think. Today Italy is the 3rd military power in Europe after France and UK while Germany has a bad military. So if you want to keep living in the past like every other moron then study it.
Jon Snow An american. Why am I not surprised? Americans learn history from shitty action movies. Tell me, how does it feel to lose wars against third world countries like Vietnam or Somalia? How does it feel to hear about kids killed in their schools? How does it feel to have clowns that are trying to become president? How does it feel to invade more third world countries just for oil? How would you feel if you study history and learn that in the Italian Campaign in ww2 the Americans were the most useless army that fought in Italy?
That was a nice concise modern history of Ethiopians defending themselves from foreign invaders. Thank you. However your final statement should have been stated in a different manner. We were not conquered by the Italians in the end. Yes they finally won a battle against us, only because of the airplane invention along with the illegal/unethical use of chemical warfare(mustard gas). After losing to us numerous times the Italians were afraid to face our fierce warriors on the ground in conventional warfare. It is more accurate to say our capital city was occupied for 5 years, but we formed the black lion movement to resist you from invading the rest of the country. We may have a 3rd world economy but all Ethiopians at least maintain their pride all the way to the grave knowing that neither the white race, the Arabians, the Turks, or any other Africans could conquer us.
Read the comments for a bunch of pissed off Ethiopian nationalists. Sadly Africa is not immune to radical nationalism either. It's not just a problem with Europe (mainly the east), the Americas and Asia. Maybe Oceania has these problems too.
Seeing as though I get loads of comments saying something like "Italy never conquered Ethiopia..." I'll copy and paste a response I gave to someone.
I think this is just a case of semantics. More often than not the 2 (conquer/invade) are interchangable, for instance you could say the Norman invasion/conquest of England. And this is how I use it, but I'm still going to defend my choice of words because I'm just like that.
Especially because A lot of people have said this and it seems that Ethiopian nationalists get riled up over which word is chosen (of course I can hazard a guess as to why they care so much).
But I think the Italians didn't just "stay." And you also couldn't say it was an occupation because that usually doesn't involve direct rule or annexation. The Ethiopian government on the otherhand was ousted, it was absorbed into Italian East Africa and Italy acted like a conqueror by building roads, redesigning Cities and recruiting locals into their armies.
Sure it was very brief and their control was limited. And I often hear the military resistance proves it wasn't a conquest, but I think you'd struggle to find a conquest that didn't face opposition, sometimes for centuries.
I'd say there are instances when the terms aren't so interchangeable - for instance Germany invaded Russia but didn't conquer it. But I think you could say Ethiopia was briefly conquered if you go by this definition: "the subjugation and assumption of control of a place or people by military force."
You may have a different definition, however I think we will just start endlessly splitting hairs.
Jabzy we more or less did this because some time ago Italy claimed it has conquered/ annexed us ( illegal claims ) and we can't tel them do that lol. Sadly our monarchy did get overthrown and our country soon fell into chaos after it...well so did Italy...i guess we are not so different after all :/
Italky atacked Ethopia twice.The first time failed.The second time they succeeded.Not that it helped Italy at all.
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Citetation needed.my english is fine.
Jabzy so was is an invasion or conquest when america went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan? ..they did build infrastructure to make it more accessible for them
Ras Mike Yes, but they didnt become part of America. Ethiopia became part of Italian East Africa.
My Grandfather and my Grandmother fought at the battle of Adwa and this means a lot to me. Proud to be Ethiopian.... long live......
In my opinion the Italians failed at colonizing Ethiopia, a five year occupation using advanced weapons and mustard gas did nothing for Italy. They gained almost nothing, and Ethiopia shows few Italian influences today. The Ethiopians destroyed them, and they only won the second war due to a large army, and mustard gas usage.
lol thats the point. thats like saying you only passed the test because you studied.
The colonized it but failed to win ww2 and keep it. Had it not been for the british and the UN ethiopia would have been colonized longer. After ww2 Italy was foced to relinquish italian east africa and only keep their other colonies as trusteeships under the UN.
The Ethiopians destroyed them.
Yet you say
and they only won the second war due to a large army, and mustard gas usage.
How on earth is that ethiopia destroying anyone?
italy never colonized ethiopia because to colonyze a land the most important hing is the language ! if Ethiopia speak italian as official language the colonization was accomplished oppsite NO
Andre gamers please do tell how ya control the economy! ?.
Colonisation rarely paid off for the colonising power. Thats not relevant for the definition of colonialism.
Ethiopians are celebrating the Victory Today 1896 March 4-5 ! BATTLE OF ADAWA !
Ethiopia is really a fascinating country, i would like to visit it one day.
You can visit this dick. :D
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Meast no, I can't see it, it's too small
Mihail Golubovic this is coming from a slav
Ethiopia is not a prosperous country anymore after the Civil War.
Props to Ethiopia for beating a European country!
Thanks
Ikr, thanks
Jeff Li thanks
Terminus K they had guns and they were trained all we had was the arrows and the shield
Also it's better then not fighting back like the rest of the African countries
What a strong country
To be honest, the Italians also had a very weak army. A lot of European nations have ridiculed them for it.
We still get shit on for losing to them kek
that ass whooping from greece was the best
It has a lot to do with that Italy is fucking useless at war.
there were several battles between the wyt ppl and zulus lmao just stop...
the best weapon in that entire effort was Shaka zulu was a fucking idiot who didn't realize what was going on. This nigga thought their inventions were witch craft but still they jumped out bushes with spears and wrecked white boys for years. It took 500 years plus the invention of guns for any of this ethnic based warfare to really take off not to mention, africa had 600 ethnic groups and languages, all european romance language speaking peoples rode together against those tiny ass groups it was childsplay. So let's use context there too.
Once again a simple but well done video. Thanks for sharing it Jabzy!
Somehow weird that a European country got recked by an underdeveloped African country xD
Props to Ethiopia, long live Abyssinia!
I'm learning about so many wars I've never heard of - let alone imagined would have happened - by watching this channel...
Ethiopia was and Allied Power. Some would say the first Allied Power given Salassie's UN speech calling for a united front against Fascism. If the allies won WWII, and the Ethiopian Emperor reigned and lived decades after while Mussolini was hung upside down dead after losing to the Allies, how did Ethiopia get 'conquered' by Italy. It's like saying Hitler conquered the Russia or France because of his attacks there.
Derick Ofodirinwa because there was four years of peace between the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and Italy’s entry into the Second World War. Abyssinia was recognised as Italian territory, if Italy had not entered the war it would have continued to be. Abyssinia was not an Ally, nobody would have declared war on Mussolini to help it.
2:44
“This was the first time...an African army decisively beat a European army”
I think the Zulus were first with the Battle of Isandlwana, 1879, when they annihilated a British military camp and foiled the first invasion of Zulu territory. (Though the British did go on to win the war despite the initial humiliating defeat.)
And also Hannibal.
Thank you so much, there are not much videos explaining this topic.
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Keep it up! :D
One of the best short videos on military history I have seen in RUclips. Subscribed and became a patron. Keep up the good work. I would greatly appreciate it if you can make a video about Finland or Greece in WWII or about the Meiji restoration. Danke schoen.
Great job I would like to see a video on the Russian civil war; moreover, I would like to thank you you videos cover topics not a lot of other sources cover and your presentation really adds to the material keep up the great work!
That must have been a cheeky translator!
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Ethiopia was never colonized did the Italians win the other war yes and they stayed for 5 years but they never colonized it they were at a constant war while they stayed they never managed to colonize or replace our culture,heritage and language with their own. Just because you occupy a place for a little while doesn't mean you have colonized it.
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Im now just waiting to be mentioned in the Presidential debates.
Jabzy If you say Ethiopia was conquered (colonized) do you also believe the 5 years occupation of Germany over Netherlands also considered as colonization? please elaborate.
As a teacher-candidate these are helpful vignettes for quick, 35k-foot-intro-only plays. Thanks!
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Wrong info we ware nove colonized by italy and at the time of minilik we didn't get any support frome any other country all part of ethiopia with out ertiria was free we get support only frome God
Great video again! How about Great Turkish War next?
You should shout out GeoNow for shoutouting you in the desc. Nice video!
Could you please make oone video about the Portuguese war for Independence (1640) or the dutch-portuguese war?
Do you think you could do something on the Indian Mutiny maybe?
Cool. These are addictive. Keep em coming.
Italians were extremely OUTNUMBERED, the Ethiopians were motivated while the the Italians weren't
The Italians we're motivated. Why would they invade foreign lands in a different continent if they weren't motivated?
@ኄኖክ ኃይሉ well in reality there were 100.000 ethipian soldiers (80.000 with modern weapons) against 17.000 italian soldiers.The italians were severely outnumbered. Moreover the ethiopian warriors knew the territory while the Italians didn't know the exact confornation of the zone. The italians understimate Ethiopia and lost the war. Tipical error of a colonial power.
@ኄኖክ ኃይሉ I'm not justifing all the Death caused by the Italian imperialism(or by the colonialism in general)but what i wrote is history. Of course the nationalism and the racism are great problems of the Human race but I'm talking about history not about antropology.
@ኄኖክ ኃይሉ you are showing the same racism of the european colonizers when you say that the European are Neanderthal. We built our culture and society as you built your. Thinking about superiority is always useless and creates only conflicts between people.
@@manto2562 By the way Ethiopians fought with shield, spear, sword and less modern weapons. And defeated in an inexpressible way. No nation did that in this world. No nation on earth. No one did that in the past. Only Ethiopians did that. And no one will do that in the future.
You should do the liberian civil or should i say uncivil war and the diamond wars plus the 2 sino japanese wars both could be a video or rolled into one.
Mussolini didn't conquer Ethiopia, he only managed to occupy urban areas and if you know Africa very well you'll know that most areas are rural.
You should do the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth and how it was formed
How about one about the Greek Civil War?
Google translator was used to translate the treaty
Is it possible you can do the Ethiopian-Somali War or the Falklands War?
He did Falklands already
Erwin Rommel This comment was posted before he did that.
General Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Ah ok, sorry.
Jazby it looks to me that the illustration of the treaty od written in Glagolitic, not Ahmaric
1:00 I believe Yohannes IV was the the last reigning monarch in history to be killed in battle.
The way you pronounced Amharic, xD!!! I'm sorry I just find it funny.
Would you happen to be interested in teaming up with an artist (me) to contribute to your vids?
Ethiopia jegnas!!
"Fascist Italy went on to conquer Ethiopia"
...my grandmother, who was old enough to remember that war and went to school for the children of the patriots (because her father died fighting off the Italians) is strongly disagreeing.
@Jabzy
Please do videos on topics you actually tryed to understand.
Ethiopia wasn't conquered by Italy. some parts were taken but it still was independent and did reconquer former lands
It was. That's history. It was a colony named "Italian Ethiopia" and became part of "Italian East Africa". That's what every encyclopedia says.
+InfoRome so what thats wrong period they occupied parts before being purged out the land end of story there are many books and accounts that lie its called white washing / white supremacy
Well of course Italy lost World War II so they lost most of their colonies except for Somalia.
***** they occupied Ethiopia but never conquered it like the British French or Spanish did with their colonies if you put them side to side
***** that doesnt mean ethiopia was conquered. if north korea occupied and conquered california would that mean the usa had been conquered? no it would mean it was occupied or lost some territory
Yes, at the most known battle in abyssinia history the italians were heavily outnumbered, some thing like 9 or 11 to 1. But you most understand that the source of this "unfair" battle was only because some italian leaders, including the president of that time, heavily underestimated our military power and our civilization capabilities as a whole. I am not skeptic that they thought the battle was going to look like the last battle between the zulus and the brits, where the brits were heavily outnumbered like the Italians yet won the battle.
eliran789 The ethiopians had guns the zulus not. But your explanations is very good
TheCommentaryKing yeah it is a thing italy should have known before the war, and if they knew it, I don't know who was the retarded president at that time. But mussolini didn't want anything of that sort again, and brought a force of HALF A MILLION MAN in order to conquer and colonize ethiopia. I don't think any other european country used that much man power in order to colonize or conquer any african country. And in the end they even didn't colonized or conquered us effectively.
eliran789 They made a protectorate, but not an effective one or that lasted long. I can say to you that the occupation of ethiopia was only a political move to show the powers that they were powerful.
The italians had good soldiers it was the leadership and the equipment that was bad
TheCommentaryKing I must agree on everything you said, and add to you last claim. Italians made more than just great soliders, but also a great nation with a great culture and many great persons throughout their history. BTW it is funny that italian leaders wanted to recreate the roman empire, and conquer abyssinia as part of their empire when in fact the roman empire and byzantine made great friends with the axumite empire.
Your Menilik the Second looks like he's super wide awake.
Ashanti Britain wars please
Am ethiopian and I really want to recommend you guys to visit our country.🇪🇹🥰
Can you do the Texas revolution
Can you do the Haitian Revolution
It's on the list
+Jabzy awesome. Subscribed
haitian revolution would be cool, it's nice to see minor events in world history being recognized
Fighting an army of tribals with few firearms yet still lost, Italy you never fail to disappoint.
trash
Well the british failed to conquer ghana 3 times
By the way, what is the background music?
Brian O'Neill Nevada City from the RUclips Audio Library
Jabzy Thanks!
All the people here saying ethiopia was never colonized should really look up Italian east africa. there's a reason why every single historian is saying ethiopia was conquered and colonized. There is no evidence to suggest ethiopia was occupied rather than colonized.
Do some reading before spouting nationalistic propaganda.
When the Japanese invaded China, did they colonize or occupy them?
droid root Ask your self. Did japan take all of china or just portions? Did the Chinese government continue to exist or did they get totally defeated? Was china even administered by the japanese?
Unlike china, ethiopia was totally defeated, totally annexed and totally administered.
Those are the differences between occupations and colonization. Just because it was short doesn't change what colonialism is. If you want an example japanese colonialism look at south east asia.
Wrong. Italy occupied some main cities like Addis Ababa, but not all of Ethiopia. Second, they didn't colonize Ethiopia. "Ethiopia was never colonized by a European power, but was occupied by Italians in 1936 (see below); however, several colonial powers had interests and designs on Ethiopia in the context of the 19th century "Scramble for Africa."
what has happed to your old videos i.e. top 5 or top 10 videos because I've just gone to watch one and there all gone.
I did not know that the Italian prime minister had meddled in the war effort.
prime minster crispy
Do a video about Somali-Portuguese war and how the Somalis killed the Portuguese army leader Cristóvão da Gama Ethiopia was the only African nation who defeated a European army in modern era but the Somalis have done that long before the Ethiopians in Middle Ages
***** true what idk what u talking abt
the portuguese lost that war and yeah
***** no the somalians had strong force and they had what is so call sultanate and after the portugues helped ethiopia somalis was stronmg enough to defend and fight back with the help of ottoman
and the portuguese were kicked out of east coast of africa because of us
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajuran_Sultanate
you can find it there
***** I HOPE THT NOW U KNW AND YH
The Middle Ages exclude modern times, so thats why its usually not included, in the Middle Ages a lot of African countries and groups expelled Northern armies.
Who invented pasta the Chinese or the Italian?
Why couldn't Haile Selaisse defeat the Italians in the 30s? It's also a shame that Menelik never used the opportunity granted by defeating the Italians and expanding his borders to modernise a la Japan, but of course the situation was different so maybe it wasn't possible. Even after regaining control of the country after WW2, Ethiopia couldn't jumpstart like Japan, Germnay and others, maybe they didn't get American loans like the other nations, a missed opportunity.
can you do Ethiopia and Egypt war.
Ethiopia smoked them twice, you can look it up!! (Battle of gura) and (battle of gundet)
bruh i'm hip Ethiopia completely destroyed them
That was the Turks who ruled Egypt at that time, under the Ottoman rite, and the numbers of Egypt's army was so limited. If Ethiopia will fight Egypt today, Ethiopia will easily defeat by Egypt, the Ethiopian army isn't that powerful today. I'm sorry but this is a fact, not to forget that Britain was Ethiopia's ally in this war.
@ኄኖክ ኃይሉ I understand that you have your right to be proud of your country. But actually, the Egyptian army today is number 1 in Africa.
@@faithfulsoldier519 depends on where the battle will be fought if it is on Ethiopian soil Egypt has no chance
Anyone know how to pronounce dejazmach balcha? Pls thanks 🙏
officer == Dejazmach
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Get it right! Ethiopia was NEVER colonized by Italy.
+rose addis Care to elaborate?
+Hugh Jenas invade is different from colonized. Besides we crushed Italy in the battle of Adwa.
+Thomas Peter Not really. Italians are not Romans despite what most Italians say.
Romans. The Italians of today may have developed their language from Latin but the Italians have little to do with the Romans. The Italians are descendant of the Lombards, a Germanic tribe from northern Germany. their ruled the peninsula until being conquered by Charlemagne and the Franks. Overtime, the Lombards adopted the Latin language and combined it with their own Germanic language to form modern day Italian thus starting the Italian culture. By the time they did this, however, Roman culture was long dead and its language was only being used by the Catholic church for religious ceremonies
So according to you because two people are geographically living in the same area they are the same? Thats like saying Russia and the Native Americans are the same because the Native Americans crossed through eastern Siberia to get to the Americas while the Russians own that land today
When Italy loses the war to Ethiopia in Hearts of iron 4.
why do I need to go to the school if I have Jabzy...
Craft0Video internet has made school obsolete
Fuck school
Damnnn, i got here when it said No Views.
You commented before I had even added the annotations at the end.
Dang, looks like i got here just on time! Good video though!
dang danny hes killing it
When somebody sends volunteers to Ethiopia in HOI4
Well, an interesting battle, that puts in evidence the italian lack of organization and perhaps even a bit of ego...searching i found out that italian soldiers were newly recruited people with no experience, coming from various parts of italy, equipped with old-technology weapons (they didn't use the same weapons of the main army!), and it is likely that fewer fought in the actual battle on the Italian side, Harold Marcus notes that "several thousand" soldiers were needed in support roles and to guard the lines of communication to the rear and a whole brigade was made up of Eritrean askari led by Italian officers... so, unexperienced, under-equipped,randomly chosen soldiers sent to fight, still fighting till the last ammo...
i'm ethiopian
Me too
GOOD LORD
He Said CONQUERED NOT COLONIZED.
It would have been worth talking about the influence of the great Ethiopian famine (Kifu-qen) 1888-92 on the the outbreak & course of the war…
You incorrectly state that Adwa (1896;) was the first African victory over a European power.
In 1879 the Zulus defeated the British at Isandlwana (1879(
I love the hypocrisy of the internet. They all bash on Italy as the big joke and bad guy of Europe (without knowing shit), while France, England and other countries are absolutely saints and haven't failed once neither in Africa or somewhere else in the world or committed crimes against the humanity.
In history everyone failes. Just like the ottoman empire. They lost Lybia to a new born country in less than a year. That country was Italy, that sent illiterate farmers to fight and still won against a kicking ass world power. But no one talks about it because "it's not cool for memes" right?
I’m sorry if your perceive that Italy has been mistreated, but you have to understand the atrocity of invading another nation (let alone a Christian one. Would the Lord approve of the Catholic Church’s failure to intervene in the situation knowing that the people of Italy were going to brutally murder a Christian nation in vindictive greed for its past failures?) It doesn’t matter if France or Britain or Germany or or other Europeans nations are perceived as saints (it really doesn’t); what matters is that the people of Italy were swayed by the deceitful and chauvinistic words of a modern day autocrat and they who call themselves “Christians”, who currently house the Vatican , were manipulated to carry out a utterly immoral act. That is what matters! Italy did wrong, and you know it! Despite that, I agree, I do think that England and France’s imperialistic repercussions are not discussed as widely even though their action were force than that of Italy because they weren’t as humiliated by an African country.
@@zemichaelatnafu1121 just to reply more "coherently" to your answer, invading another country is wrong. Everyone knows it. It matters if France or other countries are perceived as absolute saints because it sways people on learning proper history. On the previous message, I was referring to the first Italo-ethiopian war. Now onto the second, what happened was an absolute fucking disgrace and my god nobody here in Italy is proud about it. It's not like we brag about colonialism like in other countries (you guess what countries). We know it's bad and we don't interfere into other countries' business (unlike other countries, you guess which ones). The thing is: why a small country is made fun for their mistakes, but not a big one? I've never fucking heard anyone mocking or insulting Germany and Austria for losing two WW and causing millions of deaths. I always hear "they fought with honor" and not "bunch of wurstel eaters, get shit on".
Anyway, my point is clear: once again, if you want to live in ignorance, carry on. But don't expect to be "a man of culture" or "a war expert/hero" just because someone made a meme. Nothing personal, it's just bad education that makes me angry. 2020 and people still believe in memes. Holy jesus
you need to remember that there were 15000 italians against 100000 ethipians with british and france support
Future Archduke of Eggs you need to remeber that Italy had more advance weapons, gases, bombs plus British had noting to do with the first one and even France sold some weapons to ethiopians cuz ethiopia sold djibouti to them yeah that is right ethiopia and Djibouti were same country. Only the soldiers acually not all of them had weapons.
shuni nishu that was in the 2nd war between italy and ethiopia, gases didn't existed back then
Future Archduke of Eggs okay but Italy still lost twice
shuni nishu actually italy won the 2nd italo-ethiopian war but was defeated by brits in 1941
Future Archduke of Eggs having some camps in ethiopia and call it my empire is not winning they lost twice and they know it. They were defeated by ethiopians with a support of British.
Indian Pakistani wars please..:D
***** he never said he would...maybe eventually. Lets hope..:D
***** yeah ! you?
Faaaaaar toooo fast.. slow down a bit😅 but thx
Who else search up this video from geography now
Italian Prime Minister… Crispy!
Ethiopia was never colonize, occupied, invaded, but not colonized.
Ethiopia's claim of being the only country in Africa to never be colonized came at the expense of Eritrea's sovereignty and independence. In 1889, the Italians signed the Treaty of Wuchale with then Ethiopian king Menelik II who essentially granted Eritrea to Italy in exchange for recognition of Ethiopian sovereignty. Italy also promised Menelik II financial assistance and military supplies.
Treaty of Wichale, Wichale also spelled Ucciali, (May 2, 1889), pact signed at Wichale, Ethiopia, by the Italians and Menilek II of Ethiopia, whereby Italy was granted the northern Ethiopian territories of Bogos, Hamasen, and Akale-Guzai (modern Eritrea and northern Tigray) in exchange for a sum of money and the provision of 30,000 muskets and 28 cannons. Source: www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Wichale.
Eventually, Ethiopia did defeat Italy in the battle of Adwa (approx. 100,000 Ethiopians vs 20,000 Italians) and afterwards Menelik signed an agreement recognizing Eritrea as a sovereign state of Italy.
Basically, Eritrea was used as a political tool to gain leverage with the Italian colonialist when it was convenient for Ethiopia's survival. This should explain the Derg's barbaric regime, Woyane's betrayal and the common attitude of entitlement towards Eritrea.
Let's pray and hope for peace, it's the only way to move forward and succeed, but it's equally important to know & remember the past accurately so we don't repeat the same mistakes.
War of 1815? ;D
Good for Ethiopia. Say what you must like they outnumbered the Italians or the Italian army was weak or whatever. I am happy for they won and stayed a independent country whether you think it wasn't much of a defeat or not. Its good they won.
Second italo-Ethiopian war 💪🏻🇮🇹❤️
You mean the other war humiliation of italy
You guys didn’t won, the Ethiopians literally kicked your ass out
History of Italy well y’all lost sooo
Actually, The British counterattacked from Kenya and pushed into east Africa, while Selassi was in London.
WarheadsSociety Exactly ... if we Italians were defeated in East Africa it was due to the overwhelming British force. Certainly not for Ethiopians 😂😂😂
Prime Minister Crispy?
The only thing that can be safely said, is that Italy won the definition of a Pyrrhic victory here. If they realized any benefits from this occupation, they shortly lost them to incompetence and mismanagement. The whole affair was, sadly, a waste of everybody's time, money, and blood.
the Ethiopians had over 200k men with modern Russian rifles, whereas the Italians had 17k men with outdated blackpowder Vetterli Rifles. (mostly Askari) Ethiopia ended up as the victor due to the Italian public rioting over the pro-war stance of the government, forcing the Italian Expeditionary forces to withdraw. Congrats The first Decisive African victory was technically the First Zulu war, but most people don't count it because the British came back with their real army and beat them in the end. Imagine if Italy brought in it's real army... (Britain also failed it's first invasion of Benin)
Ethiopia also didn’t use its full potential, only half of the 200k Ethiopian troops had those rifles.
Prime Minister Krispy Kreme of Italy? Froggy Fresh built a time machine?
3:17 conquered Ethiopia . what a joke . Stop writing your own history . We know our history . Ethiopia wasn't conquered by Italy .Now let’s have a look at Ethiopian history, specifically the years 1936 to 1941. The second Ethio-Italian war started a long time before 1935. The first Ethio-Italian war, which ended with Italy’s defeat and humiliation at Adowa in 1896, could be seen as the starting point. Italy wanted revenge and started the second war on October 3rd, 1935. It ended on May 7th, 1936 with the collapse of the Ethiopian Army, which had fought bravely but could not stand up to the poison gas and bombs raining from the Fascists’ airplanes. They marched into Addis Ababa on May 5th, 1936. It must be noted that Ethiopia never surrendered.
The first of the Ethiopian patriots to start the guerilla warfare that would continue till victory day was Lij Hailemaria Mamo of Debre Damo. He attacked a convoy of Italians that were heading to Addis Ababa on May 4th, 1936 thus gaining him the name first of the Ethiopian Patriots or “Arbegna.” After him came resistance in each and every part of Ethiopia. The more the patriots fought the harsher the fascists became, and the harsher they became the more people joined the patriots. By the end of 1936, almost all of Ethiopia was up in rebellion and fighting a guerilla war.
To name a very few of the patriots’ leaders:
• Lij Hailemariam Mamo in and around Debre Damo
• Abebe Aregay in and around Showa
• Dejazmach Menegesha and Belay Zelleke in the the Gojjam are and around the Nile Gorge
• Dejazmach Balcha “Aba Nefso” Safo in the Gurage lands
• Dejazmach Hailu Kebede in the Lasta lands
• There were Eritrean deserters who fought on the Ethiopian side, even when the patriots were losing.
• This war was supported by civilians living in the occupied cities, they were called ‘Ye Wist Arbegnoch’ or the “inside warriors.”
At no given time during those fives years were Italians not fighting for their lives. Apart from the cities where they had their garrisons the land a few kilometers away was controlled by the patriots and the vast countryside remained free.
+NO name This means that Ethiopia was conquered by Italy. :'D
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War
+NO name conquered yes, colonized no
It was a colony named "Italian Ethiopia" and became part of "Italian East Africa". That's what every encyclopedia says. That's history.
+InfoRome Nope, that's referred to as whitewashing history. What do you expect to hear in the white man's “encyclopedic” book? That they lost and could not achieve full control of the land/ people? Get real mate. It was under Italian occupation not colonization, there is an immense difference between the two. There were guerrilla fighters constantly challenging Italian military occupation within the country which prohibited the Italians from getting a strong foot hold on the land. This occurred to the mere extent of five years (this is nothing). There was no slavery, injustice upon the natives, etc. during that time. The five years consisted of various breakouts of guerrilla attack tactics against the Italian military strong hold which was clinging on the edge for control. The Ethiopian people have been warding off invaders for millennia and far out numbered the Italian forces. Next time don't give me some “extension of the truth” / lie some crappy white man written encyclopedias say.
No its not, he said "IT WAS A COLONY" "It" reffering to Ethiopia, dont ruin italians reputation any further
nobody knows how to lose like the Italians
Who ever translated that treaty deserves to be dragged in to the street and kicked into submission.
Who was Francesco Crispi ?
Arnis Stratiot he was Prime minister of Italy!
He ordered the invasion of Ethiopia ?
That damn pm
What the October war in 1973
Italians were embraced
The Italians messed with the wrong Negas.😠😠
Hhhhhhhhhhhh. Absolutely. They beat Europeans in way no one beaten.
So the Italy make France look like a Military Genius. Losing to a undeveloped Country is worse than losing to a Developed Country.
Ethiopians: 100.000, 80.000 with rifles
Italians: 17.000, that fought until they ran out of ammo.
Tell me, is that such a shameful defeat, do we want to talk about Isandlwana?
***** Another moron that believe in stereotypes.
Italy invented the modern special forces, the paratroopers, the bombing raids and the armored cars, so shut up
Jon Snow The italian army was under-equipped, but the british historian covered his performance with anti-italian propaganda and stereotypes.
Study some real history.
forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=210001
madmonarchist.blogspot.it/2015/03/the-truth-about-italian-war-record.html?m=1
Another moron that apparently didn't even read the links.
Listen pal, Italy fought in 9 wars and won 7 of them, in ww1 Italy won and in ww2 it wasn't defeated easily as many people think.
Today Italy is the 3rd military power in Europe after France and UK while Germany has a bad military.
So if you want to keep living in the past like every other moron then study it.
Jon Snow An american. Why am I not surprised? Americans learn history from shitty action movies.
Tell me, how does it feel to lose wars against third world countries like Vietnam or Somalia? How does it feel to hear about kids killed in their schools? How does it feel to have clowns that are trying to become president? How does it feel to invade more third world countries just for oil? How would you feel if you study history and learn that in the Italian Campaign in ww2 the Americans were the most useless army that fought in Italy?
Same way we Will defeat them steadily even now..
Fun fact: Most Ethiopians are not of pure black blood
That was a nice concise modern history of Ethiopians defending themselves from foreign invaders. Thank you. However your final statement should have been stated in a different manner. We were not conquered by the Italians in the end. Yes they finally won a battle against us, only because of the airplane invention along with the illegal/unethical use of chemical warfare(mustard gas). After losing to us numerous times the Italians were afraid to face our fierce warriors on the ground in conventional warfare. It is more accurate to say our capital city was occupied for 5 years, but we formed the black lion movement to resist you from invading the rest of the country. We may have a 3rd world economy but all Ethiopians at least maintain their pride all the way to the grave knowing that neither the white race, the Arabians, the Turks, or any other Africans could conquer us.
*Conqured
Read the comments for a bunch of pissed off Ethiopian nationalists. Sadly Africa is not immune to radical nationalism either. It's not just a problem with Europe (mainly the east), the Americas and Asia. Maybe Oceania has these problems too.
why was Ethiopia first place in Ogaden region it belong to Somalia not Ethiopia.
why would the emperor kidnap missionaries he's a Christian a different kind yes a coptic but still why
George Lewis
Because the Queen of England was sending missionaries instead of doctors, engineers, tradesmen, etc., to modernize his country.
He was not against the Missionaries. He demanded something from British.