colonies and ‘free-trade areas’ – in the late 19th century. Ethiopia had established itself as a powerful empire in the Horn of Africa, renowned for its strong monarchies and proud ...

The cultural hub of the Ethiopian highlands in the first ... had with other civilizations through global trade networks. Not only did the empire’s location allow it access to Africa’s interior ...

It lay at the heart of a trade network ... from Tigray in northern Ethiopia and a father from Eritrea - the very areas that were at the heart of the old Aksumite empire. "The impulse was really ...

The Ethiopian Empire had been in decline and fragmented ... Other rulers took advantage of trade with Europeans to become rich and powerful, for example, Jaja of Opoba, the palm oil trader in ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...