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The thing is that Ethiopia wasn't a loose collection of tribes like a lot of other colonial opponents. Ethiopia was a proper, organized state, with a long history of being a unified political entity dating back to the antiquity era.
You don't make sense. There is no such thing as single Ethiopian empire. It was a confederation of Tribal kingdoms that usually fought against each other.
My Russian surname is associated with Negus II, and was given the award "star of Ethiopia" for the services. Was surprised to find out but Russians did have some close friendship with Ethiopians, our Orthodox Brothers.
But the main Ethiopian church (which is Oriental Orthodox) is not in communion with the Eastern Orthodox (which Russia is primarily) which is a detail that was not mentioned in the video. But I guess in the end they are still closer to each other than to the Roman Catholics.
They are actually the only country that was never colonized in the world. The US, China, India, Korea, Philippines, Australia etc.. are all subjects of colonialism. Ethiopia actually saw it coming and destroyed it.
@@leanderlopez7652 They were occupied but were not truly colonized in the sense their state was not destroyed and their culture/society not significantly altered. Most African countries now have artificial borders based on the European colonial lines, as opposed Ethiopia which, well stayed "Ethiopia" even as a puppet regime, just like how Vichy France is not considered a German Colony.
@@danshakuimo well Ethiopia had strong Christian faith, and the Europeans major part of coming to Africa was spread Christian so there was no point of colonizing Ethiopia. On the contrary, Somalia was ganged up France, Britain, and Italy.
Ethiopia is such a unique country on the African continent anyway - Christian and a relatively well documented history. Definitely one of my favourite African countries to read up on!
lobsterbale Legesse Muslim make 40%, Orthodox make 43%, 1% Jew, 7% trideation African faith , 5% Protestant,1% Catholic and 1% other. Ethiopia 2018 data
@Eyobiel Kiros Africa unite... wisely said... they did not destroy Ethiopia of all of Africa... the colonies are apart of Ethiopia.... yes I know the ANCIENT history...
@nothing ethiopian didn't sit and watch what will happen next for 5 years they were fighting day to day for 5 years untill there death they were the true black lion and Emperor Hailesilase came to Ethiopia again Ethiopia was not conolized by italy
@nothing England support as for her self b/c of second world war and italians didn't came to build infrastructur for as bro both did what they did for them self bro and tnx for liking us
@Mr. P. Enis bruh i am sorry you are not giving ethiopians the credit they desserve it was almost impossible to defeat Italy since italy was equipped with guns back then ethiopians are genetically warriors an Ethiopian soldier will not surrender even if he's the only one left he will dye doing what he does best so please stop embarrassing your self the things u mentioned have nothing to do with war history
@@Wickedonezz lMAO said every invader stop talking trash and try to find a source of water before u dry out cuz 75% of the dam is completed i still don't no why Egypt don't have artificial lake
Italy lost the war because they had no moral high ground. One Christian country like Italy invading another Christian country simply for land and resources is really indefensible.
@@42ouncesofPAIN when it comes to war.. any sort of moral dilemma is either outright ignored or is tossed away. The prospect of influence, power or anything could be used as justification for war.. as long as theres some sort of benefit to be had. Throughout history and no matter the culture that's how it's always been.. heck even games get it... I've been playing the civ games and Gandhi always comes after my hot buns for no moral reason at all. Have games taught you nothing!.
The Russian involvement in the conflict's probably one of the most interesting and unpredictable angles. Also: Ethiopia's history was extremely interesting
I think it's not that surprising due to the orthodox christian connection. Going back way further, Ethiopian (axumite back then) kingdoms also had friendly relations with the Byzantine Empire, which the Russian empire considered itself the heir to.
Although they are both called "Orthodox Churces" the Ethiopian and Russian (Eastern Othodox Church) have very different origins in different times, and different dogmas. So actually there is not a religious link between them that takes them apart from the Latin (Catholic) Church. The Russian support was basically a matter of geopolitics.
It sure is but apparently they unironically celebrated the Ethiopians at a time where most of western Europe were becoming more nationalist. Also, it's coming from the Russian Empire, who at the time presided over a bunch of Muslims and Mongoloid peoples. It might be weird but I find it somewhat amusing the Russians was celebrating the Ethiopians. I think it lies somewhere between reale politic and genuine celebration of the little guy without too much self scrutiny. Regardless it's kind of charming.
It is definitely interesting how Russia tried to play a role in Africa as well and that would be also interesting to go deeper on that. But I think that Tzar Nicholas and its ministers were actually totally in the real politik mindset here. They were supporting the rising star in the complex Ethiopian political landscape of that time, Menelik, and this was bad not just for Italy: a stronger Ethiopia was also quite unpleasant for the British Empire, the main competitor for Russia on the global scene at the time. And as for the Italians... with prime minister Francesco Crispi they cut their good relations with France (Russian ally) and moved to an alliance with Germany (definitely not a Russian ally...) so there was nothing wrong if in the process they ended up with some Russian lead in their guts. In any case I totally agree that Ethiopia's history is totally fascinating...that would deserve so much more attention
Uhm... I'm actually Italian and by the way I happen to think South Tyrol is on the wrong side of the Italian-Austrian border, more or less the same way I don't have any sympathy for any of the colonial adventures of this country, on the contrary ... this doesn't mean I can't be disgusting for other reasons...
Ethiopia: Russia please help we need more weapons Russia: sorry I can't Ethiopia: we are orthodox Russia: I am coming my love That's why Russia stays in the heart of all Ethiopians.
I am surprised to see the commentators' response to this story; I was expecting the usual haters, instead, I was overwhelmed by your kind words towards my ancient land, thank you.
italy has never nor will ever have a “modern European army” edit: i’m joking. you think I wouldn’t have to put this here, but you can see how many people have thought I was serious.
@@kishanchali8752 they can; what about the "Italian unification", "battle of Kassala", "Italo-Turkish War", "Boxer Rebellion", "WW1", "Italian invasion of Albania" and others
Yes we Ethiopians are so lucky...God(Egziabher) and saint Mary(Dingl maryam) promised us that nothing will never ever defend us...n when end of the world begins the entire globe will come to Ethiopia to save themselves...u can c it in z bible.
I'm proud for Ethiopia for being a soverign nation. We SEA nation got colonized (except Thailand) but seeing a nation that stand among european colonies and defend their land as a true patriot I respect them. Sincerly from Indonesia 🇮🇩💙🇪🇹
It is lie, Ethiopia didn’t had the means to fight Europeans but they were left alone because of having strong Christian faith. Europeans main objectives was to spread Christianity and Ethiopia were already one. Look Ethiopia’s neighbors Somalia, they were ganged up by three Europeans France, Italy and Britain.
As an Ethiopian and African, I appreciate the effort taken to depict the Ethiopians' image in the animation. Usually, when Westerns depict Africans there's a general belief that we are uniformly dark-skinned, half-naked, wearing leopard skin for cloth and similar stuff like that. You did it here only at one spot at the beginning part of the story, but it shows you've done your research about the costumes and images of the Ethiopian warriors and people's clothes. 1:21 The Ethiopian Empire existed for over 3,200 years of recorded history through different names. Not 600. Saba/Sabeans, Habesha, Axumite, Abyssinia/Ethiopia are the same exact empires, just a name change.
Saba is the name of the ancestor of the people of today's north Ethiopia (Amhara, Gurage, Tigray, Eritrean Tigray, etc.) and the people of Yemen. The center of Sabean civilization was in Yemen then moved/branched out to today's Ethiopia. After the then Kushite civilization (today's Ethiopia, Eritrea, Nubians/Sudan), the Sabean civilization settled in specifically dominating the northern Ethiopia territories. There's castle of Saba in Axum, which is in Ethiopia still today very visible in half-ruins. People confuse Saba to mean the name of a queen but the queen's name is Makeda. She was the "Queen of the Sheba/Sabeans", meaning the people. You can find an abundance of written history in Axum city to this day in many museums and openly visible monuments at historical/archeological sites. You can also refer to the Kebra Negest/Glory of the Kings. An Ethiopian book explaining epically important moments of Ethiopian history and civilization.
Marley Jr Yes. You're right. Currently it's changing but still true they are darker colored and half naked. But they didn't go to the Adwa battle. Don't be ignorant. Don't be hurt by "other people's" triumphs. Enjoy humanity's whole identity as a multicolored beauty.
bza321 It's okay my friend, we Ethiopians have lived with this, foreigners claiming such things denying our KNOWN reality like you are claiming out of the blue, confident in you knowing better than the people who lived here with all the evidence in the world to prove our history. We're cool with that :) keep doing it. It reminds me of when foreigners claimed the Lalibela rock hewn churches were built by Europeans, Knights Templars, foreign slaves, etc... but we're seeing a brand new rock hewn church being built a couple of kilometers from Lalibela right now as we speak using same exact methods and extremely basic tools like self-fashioned hammers by a handful of priests. And no foreigner says anything about that. Good things, glorious history can only exist in non-black countries. We've heard it all. Enjoy yourself, my friend. God bless.
Menelik II is a very important historical figure. No one that I talk to seem to know about him,thats why I am telling everyone about him and how he shaped Ethiopia to a modern nation.People need to know about him.Respect to Menelik II
@@betelehemt Ethiopia didn’t even exist when God was mentioning Kush, in the original bible it said Kush not Ethopia!!! Please go search on google because I don’t want to speak with uneducated people
As an Ethiopian I am proud that we defeated our independence and won,but just as white men now adays are not responsible (to some extent) for what there ancestors did we did not ourselves fight, our ancestors did so we must continue making Ethiopia better which currently it is at a very rapid pace, all I’m saying is look forward my habesha brothers and sister instead of getting lost in the glories of the past
I see, I miss worded that, I didn’t want to brush asidethe terrible things white folks did, you are correct you are not responsible for what your ancestors did, that being said many white folks under sell the atrocities, and try to compare what they did to other genocides in history but the colonization of the Congo alone killed more people then the holocaust yet it is rarely talked about, but I was wrong and I apologize, white folks are not responsible for what there ancestors did, but y’all are still benefiting from what they did while the majority’s my people are still suffer, but just to make sure you don’t twist my words around and because I know how TH-cam comments work I’m going to restate the fact that yes you are not responsible for what your ancestors did, that doesn’t mean your out of the woods yet tho, all I’m trying to say, I understand why y’all responded they way you did
@Mark Donald Wow, the same passion that your are displaying in response to someone "trash talking" your ancestors, is the same passion everyone feels about their ancestors. Sure I'm not responsible for any wrongs my ancestor committed (there is a lot they did) and I would be upset if anyone else insinuate otherwise, since I don't agree with the things my ancestors did. And my ancestors did them, just because they could and had the upper hand. However, the people who feel their ancestors were persecuted or unfairly decimated by a stronger power, just because that power could, they also have the same passion about the perceived harm on their ancestors and will also feel that they must honor their ancestors suffering. As much as you don't think you benefited from your ancestors actions, the people who today start out life at a disadvantage also want to believe that it isn't because their ancestors were bad that they are starting off behind. This applies to everyone, weather it is WW2, colonialism, Rwandan genocide etc.... There is no right or wrong here, because it is the most human instinct to defend our ancestors, our self perception and forward movement of the human species is not possible if we believe we don't come from something great. So no matter what our ancestors roles were in the past, we will find a way to somehow make sense of it and a way to live with ourselves. Weather we think they were villains or victims of some historical event, it affects our self perception. This is why you see people in the US fighting for posthumous military honors, exoneration from false judgement etc... It matters in a weird way if my ancestors didn't get the purple heart he deserved etc. Also, foreign aid is basically never seen by the people of these countries. It is used by foreign countries to control and corrupt the leaders of poor and disempowered people. The best thing you can do is advocate for your country to stop giving aid(bribes).
Hold my Tela or Hold my Tej would be more appropriate. Tela,Arekae,Tej etc....local alcoholic beverages. Arekae is like Vodka, some 60-70% alcohol. Sheesh!
AMK ethiopia defeated Italy but lost to Eritrea later on, which is a small country with around 5 million people. War is like a football game, you Can win/you Can lose
Shannon Mcauliff , he didn’t mention her but we Ethiopian never forget what she did.The idea of cutting the water sources of Italian soldiers was initiated and ordered by Taytu Betul. Then, the Italian soldiers couldn’t survive more than 2 days.
@@iamethiopian2257 what do you mean fool?? are they different races?? are you Ethiopian?? am i wrong?? do you even read history?? he was sick bastard who killed millions of other tribes.
Hey, recently I have found out about a war that nobody really knows of. Sino-Vietnamese War, and as I heard, the reason it broke out was because China and USSR had bad relations and Vietnam and USSR made a Defence Pact, so I ask this: Why did China and USSR hate each other, and why did the war broke out? Please like this so he can read it.
The Sino-Soviet split happenned because Mao and the Soviets did not agree on what model to use for communism. China believed in making allies and industry from within (the peasants) while the Soviets believed in exporting revolution and converting capitalist states into communist states. Hence during the Vietnam war, the Soviets supported the North while China tried to trip up Cambodia and Laos by destabilizing them. Yet neither China or the USSR actually supportef each other
He is a very ignorant liar! He says a 600 hundred years old empire. But, the truth is a 3000 ' three thousand' year empire, which stretches its root to the biblical king Solomon and queen of Sheba.
Jonathan Williams they did actually, until the dictator government called derg started targeting all the educated citizens. approximately more than 1 milion students were intentionally murdered so that they wouldn't criticize dictatorship using democracy. haile selassie sent more than 100 000 ethiopian students across the world so that they can one day come back and build their country which they did only to be slaughtered by derg.
Jonathan Williams They would have done that if communist derg hadn't dethroned Haile Selassie in a coup and killed him afterwards. He was going to undertake land reforms and dismantle the fiefdom in Ethiopia and this didn't go down with some aristocrats so they deposed him. Look how that turned out for Ethiopia
Eryka Jackson exactly. Italian we’re not provoked. They just got up under the leadership of a bigoted leader and then went on a killing spree in Africa (Ethiopia). Then some ignorant fool makes a video , labels it as “why the Italians lost to Ethiopia “as though they were right in their bloodbath and had to win. Stop this it’s unfair. If your country had been attacked and racially victimised you wouldn’t do , think or even say this
The way this guy speaks on the video just show he is full of himself, and he can only tell the story on the western perspective, calling Ethiopians primitive! He has no clue.
Don't know where u get the info but Ethiopia has never gone to war with any Islamic conquest. 50% of Ethiopians are Muslims meaning as Muslim and Ethiopian we never ever fought a war with religious beliefs.
shield&sword peace That is entirely false. I’m Ethiopian and the Arab slave trade devastated most of North Africa, West Africa, and the Horn of Africa. The spread of Islam was not peaceful and we defended ourselves many times from the Arabs.
@@hrishabkumarsharma1355 Thats because in WW2 Italy attacked Ethiopia with Nerve gas and other Chemical warheads before invading.. They invaded before and culd never take Ethiopia.. so they Cheated & committed war crimes. They used HUNDREDS of bombers and bombed farms as well as cities.. their tactic was to stop Ethiopia's Production capabilities... Those bombs and chemicals poisoned the land for YEARS and created famine well into the 80's & 90's... Remember those "Save the Children" commercials with the skinny starving kids? THAT was the famine created by those bombs. So by THOSE standards, considering they had 30 years to build after recovering barely 60% of its production capacity from the war, famine & resulting chaos. I'd say Ethiopia is doing VERY well and there are great things in its future because it has LOTS of resources & Great ports.. aaaand its in great trading distance from Opec. Like i said gotta read more then just american news and american history books to REALLY know what is going on in the world.. america is not unlike china Less restricted but still restricted.
Think again Sir, all of this has been wiped out severly over the past quarter a century by a sick ethnic divide introduced by the Eritrean Libration Front's creation called Tigrean People Liberation Front.
@@tilksewa.kelemu4407 Ethiopia is currently the fastest growing economy in Africa and already dominates the African airspace with their Ethiopian airlines
@Persian Lion well… TPLF was not started in Addis, EPLF was. TPLF was established in Dedebit Tigray, after a tiresome indoctrination by their master in Nakfa. This was a tactical alliance to weaken the central government. EPLF took on this mission from Egypt. This now extends to target Oromo political forces including the indoctrination you rightly stated here. You said, Menilik handed Eritrea over to Italia, well… that again is not true. How many Eritrean mercenaries do you think Menilik had to fight to remain a legitimate state? I will leave it for you to internalize. Regarding independent state of Tigray… I salute you for that! Truly! Let alone Tigray, Eritrea moved quarter a century backwards after the Egyptian motivated independence. Kudos to independent Tigray! Tigrean political forces under TPLF wanted to sell the people of Tigray much as their master EPLF did, in effect, sold out the people of Eritrea. The end, the historical incarnation of Egyptian mercenary role prevails. Amhara has already seen that project Ethiopia is a round peg in square hole, busy setting up institutional mechanisms for independent Amhara!
it's because of this, that many modern african nations honor ethiopia by flying the colors of it. red, green and yellow. 🇪🇹 i'm a muslim of nigerian paternity 🇳🇬 ghanaian maternity 🇬🇭 with some amazigh (berber) ancestry 🇲🇦 but...born and raised in america.
On the contrary, the flying of the Red, Green and Yellow colors by several African countries wasn't in commemoration of the Ethiopian flag. Those colors which stand for the identity of the Rastafarian doctrine to which the late Emperor Haile Selassie was a strong believer, accidentally concided with color of the Ethiopian's flag. Nations that you see nowadays flying those colors are simply telling you their love for the Rastafarian doctrine.
Did you watch the video? In 1896 Ethiopians had half of their army equipped with rifles and artillery. What makes you believe they had ANY swords in 1936?
@Lorelei Ellison lol. since the person who I WAS talking to doubted ethiopia's unity I instantley knew that he might be a suppourtyer of Tplf or jawar since both have an agenda of seprating the country and both have bad blood between the Ethiopian central government
@Lorelei Ellison lol his name is Red sea bahari which means his eirtrean or tigray and het also hates ethiopia so tplf is the most likley answer also how can you justify that? anyone whether tplf or not can state an opinion lol
Somali wasn't really colonized either, correct me if I;m wrong but even though the Italians settled there for a while they weren't able to conquer Somali.
Peaches Kong stop y’all were colonized and your culture were very much influenced by Italy and your language . Most of your words come from the Italian language but I respect my Somali brothers
Hey, when it comes to African History, I'm a big nitpicker, but I think generally this was really well done. Some stuff I disagree with though: Bit nitpick here, but you say that besides ethiopia, african powers fell within decades. This is generally true, but I think another notable exception here is Ashanti, who fought the british in multiple wars. The 200,000 figure is greatly contested, estimates range from 80,000 to 200,000, and general consensus has around 100,000 actual soldiers taking place in the conflict "Though they were equipped with spears and swords, about half of the army were equipped with guns" a bit janky wording, nitpicks. The Ethiopians also obtained lots of their weaponry from trade with other european powers besides the Russians. Ethiopians had long traded with ports in contact with multiple foreigners for weapons, though these ports were often closed off by enemies.
at its current (1800's) state. the ethiopian empire has merged broken up, expanded and shrunk for thousands of years like any other nation. but that particular dynasty had lasted 600 years.
Which is civil wars,oppression,begging killing your own people colonization? Which one of those. Do you even know this menelik 2 savior of ethiopia he killed his own emperor yohannis4 And butchered the oromo people by butchering women’s breast. I get it the idea of having a black powerful African nation etc But ethiopia and it’s state through history did many horrors to its own people many times and it’s a result of colonization That’s why you see 70% of Ethiopian population right now don’t claim this history posted on this video but they see themselves as colonized by the Abyssinians (Amhara)and into some extent (tigrayans).
Truth Full bullshit man their is no proof what you said its a joke and fiction that create you and people like you...MENELIK 2 that killed yohanes or other tribe kings is because of only one reason to unite and create one Ethiopia and he did it... so kill and control the power is the behavior of king
Natnael kagnew He didn’t unite Ethiopia he expanded it. There is a difference when you unite you have a stable nation but expanding isn’t always gone be stable. Look at modern Ethiopian history for instance how many violent regimes change? How many civil wars? How many genocides? Let’s not fool each other Modern ethiopia is fractured into smaller states the only thing remaining is that Name itself “ethiopia”. A country ruled by tribes man instead of national leaders.
If this was the Roman empire history, we all know that the western will do a 2 hours documentary with HD quality, but thanks to you in 9 minutes well explained.
Shimune Lol the Italians wanted to use modern weapons of the time on a supposed backwards country. Then the other side has more people and then we hear “hey that is not fair!”
My wife’s stepfather said when he was a young teen his father showed him some pictures of “remains” of Italian Soldiers after going over by the Ethiopians and wanted him to remember them if he ever got an urge to join the Army or go to war.
my parents grew up in adwa. Its crazy to think that my great great grandparents probably fought in this battle against the italians near their village.
@DENIS TRUSHKIN try beating the mighty Roman empire using troops who wore no armour, were lead by noble women and beat the normans, scotch, Viking etc. Imagine being the begining of the end of Caesar and his greatness.
They lost because they underestimated their enemy, they were over confident and forgot that Ethiopia was less fractured than other African nations. Also the support of Russia helped.
Women fought in the war too especially in the 5 year occupation by the Italians where Ethiopian women went in undercover and provided info to the armed resistance which were very decisive in winning the war.
Thats a whole different war ..during musoloni Thats happened 45 YEARS LATER from this war when africa's scramble/colonisation happened .. theyre trying to twist the story by like but we invaded them british help them blah blah which is DECADES later N they come back for revenge only stay 4 yearsn got lost again tho
Italians really underestimated their opponent, and were hasty. But the Ethiopians put their differences aside and came together. That's the winning combo right there!
Not quite exactly. Ethiopians were decimated by epidemic infections rising into the Army caused by terrible hygienic conditions. Menelik was told his adivisors there was high risk of defections and army disbanding so he decided to break the statlemate and attack the Italian troops advancing showing they had no knowledge of territory. It resulted a lucky and wise decision. 🤔
@@raffaeleirlanda6966 Successful people make their own luck. Shows that he was a brilliant military strategist to prevail with so much odds, natural and man-made, stacked up against him and his army
You forgot to mention the huge role the empress played. She came up with the idea to cut water supply from an Italin fortification forcing soldiers to weaken and venture out. She also was heavily involved in this effort.
@@fatherelijahcal9620 No they haven't earned it because it was given away by the colonizers to Ethiopia. The Ogaden is known in ethiopia as the Somali region for a reason.
They won eventually it was just pointless. Also with Italy's very long history of blunders I think that it wasn't the second worst. Ide say the most retarded thing was inviting an enemy general renown for his loyalty to be their king... at which point he turned around and siezed Italy for his emperor.
@Mohamed Khaled the ottomans even had prussian advisors at the battle and still lost. Ali pasha could have modernized egypt to the point of keeping up with other european powers but they wouldnt let him except france
@Mohamed Khaled It was the same Egypt mostly, Muhammad Ali Pasha's grandson ruled then. And yeah I'm not Ethiopian I'm just saying Ethiopia is nearly impossible to conquer with that fighting spirit and mountains.
And I have heard they were double wielding those uranium tipped spears while riding on the backs of iron clad albino lions with forged carbon steel claw extensions.
Actually they had access to a rare and very durable metal, it's only found in africa, which is why italians didn't have it. Ethiopians used it to make very light and sharp spears that could easily be thrown due to their light weight, also flying cars
When the europeans colonised africa most african cultures were destroyed and europeanized some of the only cultures to completely survive was the arabs, ethiopians and the zulus. All of them fought bravely
I'd love more videos that focus on the perspective of non-European countries. While I love all your videos, ones like this remind me that huge chunks of history go untaught when Europe isn't involved.
Eddie Hanson Yes! I couldn’t agree more myself. Sadly most people in non-European countries don’t care to show off their history or their importance. This is slowly changing this decade I feel. At least in the Caribbean and Latin Nations we’re seeing them embrace their roots and how much of their culture and history is so rich and not because of European contributions. Even beauty standards are changing to more individual looks instead of European centered. I’m honestly glad it’s happening. I’m kinda bored of European history being the only one being shoved down our throats when there’s infinitely more to see.
Mali Empire is a fascinating study. So is neighboring Songhai. The Ashanti kingdom is also a good study. The Zulu are interesting but be warned Shaka has more in common with Gengis Khan then a noble hero. He has been romanticized by the west. He actually died before the Anglo-Zulu war
non european countries history is boring and cannot compete to the slightest.Only china can maybe have a spot in there,but in general,european history is superior compared to others
You likely live in a European style nation probably the US with such limited time in schools they have to prioritize the most relevant information to the nation which is European history and even then have to gloss over a lot it's a damn shame but a fact of life but we can independently learn about history using the wonders of the internet
I am from Ethiopian and I leave in the USA since April 2011 , and I am following every news about my country ,but I never and ever expected about my country's history presented from foreigners , thank you so much @Armchair. I live history , I am a history student. Now I understand and realizes that you should get 'subscribe' and 'like' for your channel , and I did that. You deserve it. March 09/2021 USA
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Thanks for watching guys! Do you want the Second Italo-Ethiopian War after this?
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The Ethiopians understood one of the Napoleon principles, always fight on high ground.
Yes! do "Second Italo-Ethiopian War" please, and make it one playlist :)
I would like Mel Gibson do a movie about Menelek II.
yes! great job!
Ethiopia wasn't orthodox but coptic...
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Never forget the cruel murder of Hallie Selasee by the Communist thug Mengitsu.
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The thing is that Ethiopia wasn't a loose collection of tribes like a lot of other colonial opponents. Ethiopia was a proper, organized state, with a long history of being a unified political entity dating back to the antiquity era.
Rocket Propelled Mexican Yeah ancient Ethiopia was a major regional power rivaling the likes of the Egyptian empire
No it wasn’t it was separate tribes before menelik was armed by the Italians and Russians
You don't make sense. There is no such thing as single Ethiopian empire. It was a confederation of Tribal kingdoms that usually fought against each other.
Red sea Bahri Unless a foreign enemy came , then Ethiopians United quickly. There are many examples prio to Italian invasion.
Just isn’t true. How about the Kanem-bornu?
My Russian surname is associated with Negus II, and was given the award "star of Ethiopia" for the services. Was surprised to find out but Russians did have some close friendship with Ethiopians, our Orthodox Brothers.
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I am Ethiopian Coptic orthodox. Peace be with you brother!
fully correct i am an ethiopia 13 year old genius kid
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Ride on genius
But the main Ethiopian church (which is Oriental Orthodox) is not in communion with the Eastern Orthodox (which Russia is primarily) which is a detail that was not mentioned in the video. But I guess in the end they are still closer to each other than to the Roman Catholics.
Respect to Ethiopia from a Nigerian :-)
Thank you 🙏💕
@@queensheba-m3430 You're welcome
Thank you
Thank you our Nigerian brother
@@tINA-gd9oo You're welcome ;)
Fun Fact. The Ethiopians fought in the Korean War as are widely respected in Korea for being the only African Country to never yield.
They are actually the only country that was never colonized in the world. The US, China, India, Korea, Philippines, Australia etc.. are all subjects of colonialism. Ethiopia actually saw it coming and destroyed it.
@@nairobinyeusi5811 But didn't Ethiopia become a puppet regime of Italy in 1936?
@@leanderlopez7652 yeah bro but that was in the war period we never yielded
@@leanderlopez7652 They were occupied but were not truly colonized in the sense their state was not destroyed and their culture/society not significantly altered. Most African countries now have artificial borders based on the European colonial lines, as opposed Ethiopia which, well stayed "Ethiopia" even as a puppet regime, just like how Vichy France is not considered a German Colony.
@@danshakuimo well Ethiopia had strong Christian faith, and the Europeans major part of coming to Africa was spread Christian so there was no point of colonizing Ethiopia. On the contrary, Somalia was ganged up France, Britain, and Italy.
Ethiopia is such a unique country on the African continent anyway - Christian and a relatively well documented history. Definitely one of my favourite African countries to read up on!
@Memnon Msaa could you tell me some?
Hey buddy thanks ! any way every thing from Ethiopia !
lobsterbale Legesse Muslim make 40%, Orthodox make 43%, 1% Jew, 7% trideation African faith , 5% Protestant,1% Catholic and 1% other. Ethiopia 2018 data
@@antonio.w.c It was Christain before many European nations.
@Sword of Africa Ethiopia owned Nubia and Kemet.
This is a great lesson on why you cant underestimate your enemies. Much respect to Ethiopia for defending their country so fiercely.
Never underestimate your enemy, hopefully Italy learned a lesson.
@Greg Pincus what's mean "dagos"?
@Greg Pincus where are you from? And how old are you?
It's an even better lesson on how ANYTHING is possible to overcome with fierce devotion and a full commitment to a plan. HOLD THE LINE.
The Italians never learnt! They came back 40 years later then guess what? Defeated again!
Respect Ethiopians from all over Africa. Bravo my heroes.
In Cameroon🇨🇲 we proudly called it in our history books as "The Adowa Resistance".
Not resistance victory pleas!
@Eyobiel Kiros Africa unite... wisely said... they did not destroy Ethiopia of all of Africa... the colonies are apart of
Ethiopia.... yes I know the ANCIENT history...
Nice to know. I wonder why don't Cameroonians or other African countries learn from Ethiopia?
But you never heard of the country that defeated Ethiopia in 1977?
Peaches Kong because Cameroon was a German colony and had to fight against the Germans
Respect and Love from Kenya to our neighbor
Thank you
thank you brother
-Ethiopia
I love kenya
Thank u so kind
Kenya is true neighbor of Ethiopia.
I like that they managed to protect their land and their identity from being colonized. Well done Ethiopia :)
thanks
Nightbow9 thank you :)
Its sad thats we are losing it due to globalization and corrupted selfish government!
@Gazzara5 the british would get raped if they tried touching ethiopia and england wouldve got nuked
@Gazzara5 A win is a win
We Ethiopians🇪🇹🇪🇹just celebrated our 125year of "Adwa"victory yesterday March 2,2021 we are proud of what our grandfathers did to Italy
I’m proud of our grandfathers in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 one love Nigeria 🇳🇬
@nothing have some respect pls
@nothing ethiopian didn't sit and watch what will happen next for 5 years they were fighting day to day for 5 years untill there death they were the true black lion and Emperor Hailesilase came to Ethiopia again Ethiopia was not conolized by italy
@nothing and to prove this you can see we have our own language and culture bro.
@nothing England support as for her self b/c of second world war and italians didn't came to build infrastructur for as bro both did what they did for them self bro and tnx for liking us
Us French: I don't know man, we got our asses whooped in 1870 and WW2.
Italy: Hold my beer.
Australia: *walks in*
Australia: *proceeds to lose a war against birds*
Those damn emus.
And also in WW1
Australia < Emu People's Republic
@@karlkolumbus8357 the French won ww1
Love to see that Ethiopia is growing prosperous love you guys from Canada 🇨🇦
Libya is as well! Libya has the highest gdp growth in the world, Ethiopia is 4th
Ethiopia then: Could win a war against European colonizers
Ethiopia now: Famine, corruption etc
@@lan6139 actually Ethiopia is doing much better since they've recovered from communism. better than most African countries i would say
Canada fake counrty
Victor Velie no they don’t
It got WORST
When you play "easy" level, but still lose game ..
wkwkwkwk
Hahaha
ah, i see indonesian
Git gud noob
Ah another indonesian fellow
Anak tanah wkwkkwkwkwkwkwk menyerang
Watching this in 125th Adwa Victory day March 2 2021
"Smile Ethiopia"
Ahahah all African should celebrate this day
You missed and rite down the real date ...
March the 2nd 2021 Tuesday.
@@jeunevieux9582
Not all African should celebrate this day , it's not their business.
@@peaceandpeaceful4538 its also AFRICAN victory because it showed that Africans can in fact resist against colonization and WIN!
@nothing yeah Italy almost got defetead until they used gas lol
When you die in the tutorial level.
Hearts of Iron 4 tutorial...
The type of tutorial that ranks you and bestow a difficulty.. in Italy's case noob.
Hahahaha
Why do u think weak Italian want to come to Ethiopia not the strong birthish or France coz both know what we can do we
Yonas Geta You got genocided by the italians in the 30s shut up please
Ethiopia is the real wakanda
@Mr. P. Enis bruh i am sorry you are not giving ethiopians the credit they desserve it was almost impossible to defeat Italy since italy was equipped with guns back then ethiopians are genetically warriors an Ethiopian soldier will not surrender even if he's the only one left he will dye doing what he does best so please stop embarrassing your self the things u mentioned have nothing to do with war history
@@philimonmichael6395 bruh if you won't surrender at any point have fun having your ancestry wiped
@@Wickedonezz lMAO said every invader stop talking trash and try to find a source of water before u dry out cuz 75% of the dam is completed i still don't no why Egypt don't have artificial lake
@philimon michael what kind of drugs are you on?
3 years later Edit: I just realized he's calling me Egyptian lol
@Mr. P. Enis Ethiopia is one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa, but hey let's ignore economics heh?
Iam Italian
I suck at war games
Wonder why
well I am 25% Maltese and Australian so I can escape all the blame
(Don't defeat us again)
GG
Everything TH-camr I am italian and I won at many games. Maybe is your anglo blood?
anglos only lose wars to other anglos
Iam Australian no Anglo DIFFERENCE I eat meat pies
Greetings to my orthodox ethiopian brothers from greece 🇬🇷🤝🇪🇹 ☦️☦️
Lmao nationalist combo
☦☦
you guys are diferent orthodox
@hiooxkrmagkis9323don’t talk about colonialism when you’re a Muslims in Europe 🤦🏻♂️
greeting to my ortodox grecce brothers from ethiopia
"I'm orthodox".. "coming over".. that's very funny... I really love videos like this and many more.
Italy lost the war because they had no moral high ground. One Christian country like Italy invading another Christian country simply for land and resources is really indefensible.
@@42ouncesofPAIN when it comes to war.. any sort of moral dilemma is either outright ignored or is tossed away. The prospect of influence, power or anything could be used as justification for war.. as long as theres some sort of benefit to be had. Throughout history and no matter the culture that's how it's always been.. heck even games get it... I've been playing the civ games and Gandhi always comes after my hot buns for no moral reason at all. Have games taught you nothing!.
That made me laugh because its true.
@dawit s I agree
yes we do ababa!
The Russian involvement in the conflict's probably one of the most interesting and unpredictable angles.
Also: Ethiopia's history was extremely interesting
I think it's not that surprising due to the orthodox christian connection. Going back way further, Ethiopian (axumite back then) kingdoms also had friendly relations with the Byzantine Empire, which the Russian empire considered itself the heir to.
Although they are both called "Orthodox Churces" the Ethiopian and Russian (Eastern Othodox Church) have very different origins in different times, and different dogmas. So actually there is not a religious link between them that takes them apart from the Latin (Catholic) Church. The Russian support was basically a matter of geopolitics.
It sure is but apparently they unironically celebrated the Ethiopians at a time where most of western Europe were becoming more nationalist. Also, it's coming from the Russian Empire, who at the time presided over a bunch of Muslims and Mongoloid peoples. It might be weird but I find it somewhat amusing the Russians was celebrating the Ethiopians. I think it lies somewhere between reale politic and genuine celebration of the little guy without too much self scrutiny.
Regardless it's kind of charming.
It is definitely interesting how Russia tried to play a role in Africa as well and that would be also interesting to go deeper on that. But I think that Tzar Nicholas and its ministers were actually totally in the real politik mindset here. They were supporting the rising star in the complex Ethiopian political landscape of that time, Menelik, and this was bad not just for Italy: a stronger Ethiopia was also quite unpleasant for the British Empire, the main competitor for Russia on the global scene at the time. And as for the Italians... with prime minister Francesco Crispi they cut their good relations with France (Russian ally) and moved to an alliance with Germany (definitely not a Russian ally...) so there was nothing wrong if in the process they ended up with some Russian lead in their guts.
In any case I totally agree that Ethiopia's history is totally fascinating...that would deserve so much more attention
Uhm... I'm actually Italian and by the way I happen to think South Tyrol is on the wrong side of the Italian-Austrian border, more or less the same way I don't have any sympathy for any of the colonial adventures of this country, on the contrary ... this doesn't mean I can't be disgusting for other reasons...
Menelik II: the original Black Panther.
@@redsea334 lol salty spaghetti
Red sea Bahri go eat your spaghetti you crooked dago.
Thanks to all of these comments that insult italians when the guy is american...
GG guys, keep it up
@melak Sure my special friend, sure
@melak Like the one in you brain
Love Ethiopia from Russia! We stand to our brothers in Christ
Ethiopia: Russia please help we need more weapons
Russia: sorry I can't
Ethiopia: we are orthodox
Russia: I am coming my love
That's why Russia stays in the heart of all Ethiopians.
Glory to Russia
❤️❤️
@@fitsaiG ...
@@_headgamer5_74 Glory to Russia
Ethiopian women fought that war too. They helped by mixing grind pepper and spices with water then spraying at the Italians
now that was bravery
lol...
You don't say
Mace? They used mace on the Italians?
ይቺ የጨርቆስ ጭውቴ ነች kkkk
Nice fairy tale, might use it as a bed time stories.
I am surprised to see the commentators' response to this story; I was expecting the usual haters, instead, I was overwhelmed by your kind words towards my ancient land, thank you.
we ethiopians too
No problem!
I was expecting haters too lol
Love Ethiopia From VietNam. I am a VietNamCatholic. Love Jesus
"modern european army" isn't the correct term to define the Italian army of that time
italy has never nor will ever have a “modern European army”
edit: i’m joking. you think I wouldn’t have to put this here, but you can see how many people have thought I was serious.
@@blueapp1e820 you forgot rome
@@blueapp1e820 I suppose you're american
currently has the same amount of aircraft carriers as Russia and China combined so I'd rethink that a sec@@blueapp1e820
BlueApp1e dude they have one of the best special forces in the world and their army isn’t much to scuff at either
Respect to Ethiopia from Italy 🇮🇹 I hope our countries can now live in peace
Yeah this is history back to 125. Love you from Ethiopia
Ya it’s a historical moment but,
Now there in peace.thanks so much for the mistake.
Italians can't fight. Remember WW 2
@@kishanchali8752 they can; what about the "Italian unification", "battle of Kassala", "Italo-Turkish War", "Boxer Rebellion", "WW1", "Italian invasion of Albania" and others
@@Giuan the Italo Turkish war was the best victory of Italy in my opinion they crushed the ottomans
I always smile whenever I read up on Ethiopian history.
Tnkzz man
Like eritrea war tigray war very nice story kill kill
Am from Ethiopian and thank you for sharing our great history to the world.
Ethiopians have even been mentioned in the bible. Something is up with them
About twenty times
Yes we Ethiopians are so lucky...God(Egziabher) and saint Mary(Dingl maryam) promised us that nothing will never ever defend us...n when end of the world begins the entire globe will come to Ethiopia to save themselves...u can c it in z bible.
God help us more than any one . In the time of adwa war St. Gorge fighting with us
@@manche110 about fourty times
Oh! Aubrey
And in the Quran to
Where are my Ethiopians? 🇪🇹❤️✨
yoo
Yes me
Hey
Selam (Hi!) Me
here
I'm proud for Ethiopia for being a soverign nation. We SEA nation got colonized (except Thailand) but seeing a nation that stand among european colonies and defend their land as a true patriot I respect them. Sincerly from Indonesia 🇮🇩💙🇪🇹
Glad to hear from you guys,thank you for the appreciation.and one day we may learn from your development bravery and develop our country.
Liberia was an independent nation to same for Afghanistan, Persia(Iran) and I think Oman was independent to
@@natepatterson1380 Liberia was basically a US colony tho
@@keikei2942 we just guaranteed their independence nothin more pretty sure that was the same thing with Oman and Britain
It is lie, Ethiopia didn’t had the means to fight Europeans but they were left alone because of having strong Christian faith. Europeans main objectives was to spread Christianity and Ethiopia were already one. Look Ethiopia’s neighbors Somalia, they were ganged up by three Europeans France, Italy and Britain.
As an Ethiopian and African, I appreciate the effort taken to depict the Ethiopians' image in the animation. Usually, when Westerns depict Africans there's a general belief that we are uniformly dark-skinned, half-naked, wearing leopard skin for cloth and similar stuff like that. You did it here only at one spot at the beginning part of the story, but it shows you've done your research about the costumes and images of the Ethiopian warriors and people's clothes.
1:21 The Ethiopian Empire existed for over 3,200 years of recorded history through different names. Not 600. Saba/Sabeans, Habesha, Axumite, Abyssinia/Ethiopia are the same exact empires, just a name change.
Saba is the name of the ancestor of the people of today's north Ethiopia (Amhara, Gurage, Tigray, Eritrean Tigray, etc.) and the people of Yemen. The center of Sabean civilization was in Yemen then moved/branched out to today's Ethiopia. After the then Kushite civilization (today's Ethiopia, Eritrea, Nubians/Sudan), the Sabean civilization settled in specifically dominating the northern Ethiopia territories. There's castle of Saba in Axum, which is in Ethiopia still today very visible in half-ruins.
People confuse Saba to mean the name of a queen but the queen's name is Makeda. She was the "Queen of the Sheba/Sabeans", meaning the people. You can find an abundance of written history in Axum city to this day in many museums and openly visible monuments at historical/archeological sites.
You can also refer to the Kebra Negest/Glory of the Kings. An Ethiopian book explaining epically important moments of Ethiopian history and civilization.
ehsan_iq ethiopia ruled yemen for a decent time before the arabs came
Ethiopiawiw Kushite civilzations and Ethiopian are separate civilzations. Yemen has nothing to do with Kush.
Marley Jr
Yes. You're right. Currently it's changing but still true they are darker colored and half naked.
But they didn't go to the Adwa battle.
Don't be ignorant. Don't be hurt by "other people's" triumphs. Enjoy humanity's whole identity as a multicolored beauty.
bza321
It's okay my friend, we Ethiopians have lived with this, foreigners claiming such things denying our KNOWN reality like you are claiming out of the blue, confident in you knowing better than the people who lived here with all the evidence in the world to prove our history. We're cool with that :) keep doing it.
It reminds me of when foreigners claimed the Lalibela rock hewn churches were built by Europeans, Knights Templars, foreign slaves, etc... but we're seeing a brand new rock hewn church being built a couple of kilometers from Lalibela right now as we speak using same exact methods and extremely basic tools like self-fashioned hammers by a handful of priests. And no foreigner says anything about that. Good things, glorious history can only exist in non-black countries. We've heard it all. Enjoy yourself, my friend. God bless.
Power to Ethiopia, from Canada.
Menelik II is a very important historical figure. No one that I talk to seem to know about him,thats why I am telling everyone about him and how he shaped Ethiopia to a modern nation.People need to know about him.Respect to Menelik II
He also seperated Eritrea from Ethopia because he was scared of the Italians
@@Noirrdiorr 🤦🏾♀️
@@betelehemt he seperated eritrea from Tigray and acted like the Italians tricked him so the people don’t overthrow him lol 😂
@@betelehemt Ethiopia didn’t even exist when God was mentioning Kush, in the original bible it said Kush not Ethopia!!! Please go search on google because I don’t want to speak with uneducated people
Yess
As an Ethiopian I am proud that we defeated our independence and won,but just as white men now adays are not responsible (to some extent) for what there ancestors did we did not ourselves fight, our ancestors did so we must continue making Ethiopia better which currently it is at a very rapid pace, all I’m saying is look forward my habesha brothers and sister instead of getting lost in the glories of the past
To No extent. You are not responsible for anyone else's actions.
Wait r y’all arguing wit me or agreeing I can’t tell?
I see, I miss worded that, I didn’t want to brush asidethe terrible things white folks did, you are correct you are not responsible for what your ancestors did, that being said many white folks under sell the atrocities, and try to compare what they did to other genocides in history but the colonization of the Congo alone killed more people then the holocaust yet it is rarely talked about, but I was wrong and I apologize, white folks are not responsible for what there ancestors did, but y’all are still benefiting from what they did while the majority’s my people are still suffer, but just to make sure you don’t twist my words around and because I know how TH-cam comments work I’m going to restate the fact that yes you are not responsible for what your ancestors did, that doesn’t mean your out of the woods yet tho, all I’m trying to say, I understand why y’all responded they way you did
@Mark Donald Wow, the same passion that your are displaying in response to someone "trash talking" your ancestors, is the same passion everyone feels about their ancestors. Sure I'm not responsible for any wrongs my ancestor committed (there is a lot they did) and I would be upset if anyone else insinuate otherwise, since I don't agree with the things my ancestors did. And my ancestors did them, just because they could and had the upper hand. However, the people who feel their ancestors were persecuted or unfairly decimated by a stronger power, just because that power could, they also have the same passion about the perceived harm on their ancestors and will also feel that they must honor their ancestors suffering. As much as you don't think you benefited from your ancestors actions, the people who today start out life at a disadvantage also want to believe that it isn't because their ancestors were bad that they are starting off behind. This applies to everyone, weather it is WW2, colonialism, Rwandan genocide etc.... There is no right or wrong here, because it is the most human instinct to defend our ancestors, our self perception and forward movement of the human species is not possible if we believe we don't come from something great. So no matter what our ancestors roles were in the past, we will find a way to somehow make sense of it and a way to live with ourselves. Weather we think they were villains or victims of some historical event, it affects our self perception. This is why you see people in the US fighting for posthumous military honors, exoneration from false judgement etc... It matters in a weird way if my ancestors didn't get the purple heart he deserved etc.
Also, foreign aid is basically never seen by the people of these countries. It is used by foreign countries to control and corrupt the leaders of poor and disempowered people. The best thing you can do is advocate for your country to stop giving aid(bribes).
@Mark Donald I don't think anyone should be ashamed of things they didn't do themselves.
Emperor Menilik II: One of Ethiopia’s greatest rulers!
Emperor Minilik II is one of the most Murderous rulers in Africa.
@tired doctor Nah not hating. I am spreading the truth. Truth hurts right.
Red sea Bahri your Ethiopians biggest fan I see you everywhere to and laugh it so funny your actually obsessed or something like what’s your deal😂✋🏽
@@redsea334 that wd be idi amin actually
of course but recomend also the woman tayetu his wife
Italy: Imma end this mans career...
Ethiopia: Hold my Injera
this killed me fam lol
Teeqay 😂😂😂
🤣
Haha
Teeqay bro that was funny I 😂😂😂😂
I'm from Belize central America!! We say mama Ethiopia!! Mama Africa!! Praying for world peace!!✌🙏🌎🇧🇿 🇪🇹💖🤗
Ethiopia has clean and interesting history from the beginning.
clean?
Ha! Try again.
Damn right and I don't understand the replies...
@Somali Kid Not even the islanders
Have you ever heard of Derg? Mengistu Hailemariam? Woyane? The TPLF and genocides?
It should be ‘How Ethiopians beat Italy’
Yeah right
Oh! Aubrey omg exactly what I was thinking. Since they were the ones being attacked 😂
Oh! Aubrey The entire historic story is told with the Europeans in mind....
He can't help to be European with their bs
Your racist
Discusting
Other countries: "Can anyone ever defeat a European colonial army ? "
Ethiopia: " Hold my beer "
Hold my Tela or
Hold my Tej would be more appropriate. Tela,Arekae,Tej etc....local alcoholic beverages. Arekae is like Vodka, some 60-70% alcohol. Sheesh!
Love it 😁
Haaa very funny!!
AMK ethiopia defeated Italy but lost to Eritrea later on, which is a small country with around 5 million people. War is like a football game, you Can win/you Can lose
@@johnkesete4384 bruh, where did you get the idea that Ethiopia lost to Eritiria?
I’m proud of my Ethiopia 🇪🇹 hagere 🇪🇹❤️
Ethiopians amputated Eritrean colonial troops.
Why is Taytu Betul not mentioned at all? We need more women to be recognized in history.
Shannon Mcauliff , he didn’t mention her but we Ethiopian never forget what she did.The idea of cutting the water sources of Italian soldiers was initiated and ordered by Taytu Betul. Then, the Italian soldiers couldn’t survive more than 2 days.
she was the one that led the military while that sick bastard minilik were sleeping in church
@@theenlightenoromo5361 really really? Racial hatred.
@@iamethiopian2257 what do you mean fool?? are they different races?? are you Ethiopian?? am i wrong?? do you even read history?? he was sick bastard who killed millions of other tribes.
tariku geleta
Hahahaha you guys still believe that fairytale? No wonder my grandfather always calls your people stinky gala donkeys
Good Job Ethiopia!
@Crome57 Well you could say that for every colony
Leothein Duskseeker then defeated by the British who liberated Ethiopia 😂😂😂
Check out the Wikipedia casualty stats though.
377,500 Ethiopian army guys died, while only 10,000 Italian army guys died. Sounds like Vietnam to me.
@Leothein Duskseeker who told you that evidence
Leothein Duskseeker not true the Italians were only there for 5 years before they got kicked out
Hey, recently I have found out about a war that nobody really knows of.
Sino-Vietnamese War, and as I heard, the reason it broke out was because China and USSR had bad relations and Vietnam and USSR made a
Defence Pact, so I ask this: Why did China and USSR hate each other, and why did the war broke out?
Please like this so he can read it.
Shut up commie
The Sino-Soviet split happenned because Mao and the Soviets did not agree on what model to use for communism. China believed in making allies and industry from within (the peasants) while the Soviets believed in exporting revolution and converting capitalist states into communist states.
Hence during the Vietnam war, the Soviets supported the North while China tried to trip up Cambodia and Laos by destabilizing them. Yet neither China or the USSR actually supportef each other
@@fickkyuu6395 Are you that dumb, I only said it, lol. You must be like 13 year old to think just by mentioning I am a communist.
@@starroving6464 Right, comrade Putin.
He is a very ignorant liar! He says a 600 hundred years old empire. But, the truth is a 3000 ' three thousand' year empire, which stretches its root to the biblical king Solomon and queen of Sheba.
Ethiopians are badass🔥So much respect to them from an African American
as a half Italian person I wanted to cry😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧
@Qinnard But still got recked by people who had loss everything lmao. Ethiopian people must be proud
@Qinnard huh ok
.... How are they badass when they literally had 10 times the people and had better guns as well lmaoooooo y'all are pathetic he literally says it
Im sorry bro ethiopia is racist country they kill eachater amhara kill tigre tigre kill eritrea sorry bro ethiopia is africa jugoslavia
Ethopia - Wakanda of that time
Wakanda foreva
#wakandaforever 🙅♀️
@Blabla Rech tf pasta is good
ትክክል
@Blabla Rech dovevate pensarci prima di perdere la guerra mangia patate di merda
When the Ethopians pull a wakanda against the italians XD
Heh
Jonathan Williams yep, they should’ve taken the Japan route they would be in much better shape today if they had done so
Jonathan Williams
they did actually, until the dictator government called derg started targeting all the educated citizens. approximately more than 1 milion students were intentionally murdered so that they wouldn't criticize dictatorship using democracy. haile selassie sent more than 100 000 ethiopian students across the world so that they can one day come back and build their country which they did only to be slaughtered by derg.
Jonathan Williams They would have done that if communist derg hadn't dethroned Haile Selassie in a coup and killed him afterwards. He was going to undertake land reforms and dismantle the fiefdom in Ethiopia and this didn't go down with some aristocrats so they deposed him. Look how that turned out for Ethiopia
Yeah but then they got their ass kicked eventually :D
Ethiopia has joined team one
Italy has joined team two
Russia has joined team one
Italy has left the game
Accurate
Lol
@Orel Brenn tHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN THE sECOND iTALO-eTHIOPIAN wAR.
Italians moron 😂😂 why italians always excuse about their lost?
@@robel8126 YEA only Ethiopians know what your username is lol that was good tho ጮማ RAS
Proud to be Ethiopian 🟩🟨🟥 💯🇪🇹
Lol I saw you on tiktok bro😂
Why not "How Ethiopia defeated Italy"?
Because they didn't defeat Italy
Because you only beat a small portion of Italian army and Ethiopia was the underdog
@@teseofabbri1812 The title literally says, "How Italy lost to Ethiopia", lmao. 🤡🤡🤡
@@fellascallmethedrink yeah but they didn't completely defeated italy
Shouldn’t the title be “How the Ethiopians defeated Italy?”
Eryka Jackson exactly. Italian we’re not provoked. They just got up under the leadership of a bigoted leader and then went on a killing spree in Africa (Ethiopia). Then some ignorant fool makes a video , labels it as “why the Italians lost to Ethiopia “as though they were right in their bloodbath and had to win. Stop this it’s unfair. If your country had been attacked and racially victimised you wouldn’t do , think or even say this
The way this guy speaks on the video just show he is full of himself, and he can only tell the story on the western perspective, calling Ethiopians primitive! He has no clue.
I mean it’s literally the same question but phrased differently.
@@solomonwaja926 You didn't hear the part where an italian column was attacked by ethiopians?
@@kukenkarlsson3607 I mean yeah for occupying a foreign country they had no right to be in.
Ethiopia: Beats Islamic conquest, beats Ottomans, beats Italy.
Afroplasm which islamic conquest?
Ow i never heard before, although I heard they cried for 1977 war of ogaden with Somalia until Russia and many other countries came to help😂😂
Don't know where u get the info but Ethiopia has never gone to war with any Islamic conquest. 50% of Ethiopians are Muslims meaning as Muslim and Ethiopian we never ever fought a war with religious beliefs.
shield&sword peace 38% are Muslim not 50
shield&sword peace That is entirely false. I’m Ethiopian and the Arab slave trade devastated most of North Africa, West Africa, and the Horn of Africa. The spread of Islam was not peaceful and we defended ourselves many times from the Arabs.
The power of God is always with Ethiopia regardless of who comes in.
Dude. Have you seen Ethiopia? Pretty sure God hasn't.
@@yacobz, your lost my guy.
@@yacobz Thats Becasue all you watch is Westernized news. You know NOTHING John Snow.
@@hrishabkumarsharma1355 Thats because in WW2 Italy attacked Ethiopia with Nerve gas and other Chemical warheads before invading.. They invaded before and culd never take Ethiopia.. so they Cheated & committed war crimes.
They used HUNDREDS of bombers and bombed farms as well as cities.. their tactic was to stop Ethiopia's Production capabilities...
Those bombs and chemicals poisoned the land for YEARS and created famine well into the 80's & 90's... Remember those "Save the Children" commercials with the skinny starving kids? THAT was the famine created by those bombs.
So by THOSE standards, considering they had 30 years to build after recovering barely 60% of its production capacity from the war, famine & resulting chaos. I'd say Ethiopia is doing VERY well and there are great things in its future because it has LOTS of resources & Great ports.. aaaand its in great trading distance from Opec.
Like i said gotta read more then just american news and american history books to REALLY know what is going on in the world.. america is not unlike china Less restricted but still restricted.
@@yacobz exactly even on TH-cam XD
>Modern colonial empire
>Italy
Pick one
>arrows
>youtube
Pick one
Modern colonial empire
Zontar y
>uses poison gas
>still nearly lose
>get ass kicked in ww2
heh
@@redoxam
Italy
>24 wars won
>only 2 wars lost
>British empire vs Zulu=British empire lost
>America vs a bunch of farmers=America lost (Vietnam) eh
I've always played with Ethiopia in Civilization. This great nation rises again and soon will be one of the most important economies of the world
after 2015 ethiopia is the lider of the world
Think again Sir, all of this has been wiped out severly over the past quarter a century by a sick ethnic divide introduced by the Eritrean Libration Front's creation called Tigrean People Liberation Front.
@@tilksewa.kelemu4407 Ethiopia is currently the fastest growing economy in Africa and already dominates the African airspace with their Ethiopian airlines
Its now in civ 6😍
@Persian Lion well… TPLF was not started in Addis, EPLF was. TPLF was established in Dedebit Tigray, after a tiresome indoctrination by their master in Nakfa. This was a tactical alliance to weaken the central government. EPLF took on this mission from Egypt. This now extends to target Oromo political forces including the indoctrination you rightly stated here. You said, Menilik handed Eritrea over to Italia, well… that again is not true. How many Eritrean mercenaries do you think Menilik had to fight to remain a legitimate state? I will leave it for you to internalize.
Regarding independent state of Tigray… I salute you for that! Truly! Let alone Tigray, Eritrea moved quarter a century backwards after the Egyptian motivated independence. Kudos to independent Tigray! Tigrean political forces under TPLF wanted to sell the people of Tigray much as their master EPLF did, in effect, sold out the people of Eritrea. The end, the historical incarnation of Egyptian mercenary role prevails. Amhara has already seen that project Ethiopia is a round peg in square hole, busy setting up institutional mechanisms for independent Amhara!
As Oromo, I am proud of Melelek ll.
huh, as a Fake Oromon...yes you would
@@redsea334 አንተ ወንበዴ የጣሊያን ባሪያ ምን አባ ትሰራለክ እዚህ ይሄ የእኛ የኢትዮጵያዊያን ታሪክ ነው ጥፍ እናት ትበዳ ፡፡
biniyam girma , amlak ykr ybelh
Daniel K ,I'm proud of u
gala
I’m an Italian proud of Ethiopian Jah Victory
Why don't you visit my country
@@eliasmohamed3052 I wish ☦️
@@eliasmohamed3052 if I visit Ethiopian and people know I'm Italian will I be in danger?
@አደዳይ ኣባይ really? Because I leave in Ethiopia, in Addis. And I never meat any Italian person.
it's because of this, that many modern african nations honor ethiopia by flying the colors of it. red, green and yellow. 🇪🇹
i'm a muslim of nigerian paternity 🇳🇬 ghanaian maternity 🇬🇭 with some amazigh (berber) ancestry 🇲🇦 but...born and raised in america.
سـلـيـمـان أحـمـد we love you back!!
And were your parents born and raised in America aswell or did they both immigrate?
So just a mutt
me2
On the contrary, the flying of the Red, Green and Yellow colors by several African countries wasn't in commemoration of the Ethiopian flag. Those colors which stand for the identity of the Rastafarian doctrine to which the late Emperor Haile Selassie was a strong believer, accidentally concided with color of the Ethiopian's flag. Nations that you see nowadays flying those colors are simply telling you their love for the Rastafarian doctrine.
The Italians barely managed it the second time. Italy just needs to stay out of wars at this point.
They won by using chemical weapons...
@@bigchungus6312 exactly they were so incompetent they had to commit war crimes to beat an army using primarily swords and spears
Did you watch the video? In 1896 Ethiopians had half of their army equipped with rifles and artillery. What makes you believe they had ANY swords in 1936?
@@SuperLusername Well you have a point but they weren't supplied by Russians and had outdated equipment.
Dams in 1936 they were supplied by France and Britain and even Germany
We will resurrect the Roman Empire!
*Loses to an underdeveloped african kingdom*
I like your name
To be fair that idea came under Mussolini who defeated Ethiopia.
Dams Yeah defeated them, with poison gas.
Did you even watch the video? Thats the exact arrogance that made them lose!
@@dams6829 Beating an African nation in the 20th century wasn't excaly revolutionary....
Love and respect Ethiopia 🇪🇹
From Somalia 🇸🇴
🇸🇴❤️🇪🇹
I think you mean to ask: How did the Ethiopians defeat the Italians?
Exactly
Empress Taytu Betul played a significant role in the Ethiopian victory against Italian colonialism.
*WOW* I'm Ethiopian and I always feel proud about being one!
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Since when did you become one ?>? Your Unity only exist in your imagination
@@redsea334 shut up banda pig
@@redsea334 Your probably a suppourter of jawar or Tplf
@Lorelei Ellison lol. since the person who I WAS talking to doubted ethiopia's unity I instantley knew that he might be a suppourtyer of Tplf or jawar since both have an agenda of seprating the country and both have bad blood between the Ethiopian central government
@Lorelei Ellison lol his name is Red sea bahari which means his eirtrean or tigray and het also hates ethiopia so tplf is the most likley answer also how can you justify that? anyone whether tplf or not can state an opinion lol
Much respect to the Ethiopians who defended their country from European imperialism as a Vietnamese
We also have respect for Vietnam for defeating America.
as Ethiopian I admire Vietnamese bravery against USA...I know Ho Chi Minh aswell
As Somali, well done Ethiopia for resisting oppression!
You ain't Somali stop trolling.
@@redsea334 stop being bitter... your the only African that stay angry.. get over it.. and help your brothers
Somali wasn't really colonized either, correct me if I;m wrong but even though the Italians settled there for a while they weren't able to conquer Somali.
Peaches Kong stop y’all were colonized and your culture were very much influenced by Italy and your language . Most of your words come from the Italian language but I respect my Somali brothers
@@Happypotato917 Only a small part of somalia was colonised by Italy and we got rid of them, not sure what your point was.
Hey, when it comes to African History, I'm a big nitpicker, but I think generally this was really well done. Some stuff I disagree with though:
Bit nitpick here, but you say that besides ethiopia, african powers fell within decades. This is generally true, but I think another notable exception here is Ashanti, who fought the british in multiple wars.
The 200,000 figure is greatly contested, estimates range from 80,000 to 200,000, and general consensus has around 100,000 actual soldiers taking place in the conflict
"Though they were equipped with spears and swords, about half of the army were equipped with guns" a bit janky wording, nitpicks.
The Ethiopians also obtained lots of their weaponry from trade with other european powers besides the Russians. Ethiopians had long traded with ports in contact with multiple foreigners for weapons, though these ports were often closed off by enemies.
I see yo black nigga ass, get yo nigga ass out from behind that tree nigga
1:21 He said Ethiopian empire existed for 600 years only. That is not correct.
at its current (1800's) state. the ethiopian empire has merged broken up, expanded and shrunk for thousands of years like any other nation. but that particular dynasty had lasted 600 years.
In fact many firearms were bought from the Italians themselves.
Thought I was the only one who knew this.
I wish all African countries had learned from the Ethiopians.
Yes world history would be much different
I must say though,it took the British nearly 200 years to defeat the Zulu Kingdom..African countries weren't stolen overnight...From a South African
Which is civil wars,oppression,begging killing your own people colonization? Which one of those.
Do you even know this menelik 2 savior of ethiopia he killed his own emperor yohannis4
And butchered the oromo people by butchering women’s breast.
I get it the idea of having a black powerful African nation etc
But ethiopia and it’s state through history did many horrors to its own people many times and it’s a result of colonization
That’s why you see 70% of Ethiopian population right now don’t claim this history posted on this video but they see themselves as colonized by the Abyssinians (Amhara)and into some extent (tigrayans).
Truth Full
bullshit man their is no proof what you said its a joke and fiction that create you and people like you...MENELIK 2 that killed yohanes or other tribe kings is because of only one reason to unite and create one Ethiopia and he did it... so kill and control the power is the behavior of king
Natnael kagnew
He didn’t unite Ethiopia he expanded it.
There is a difference when you unite you have a stable nation but expanding isn’t always gone be stable.
Look at modern Ethiopian history for instance how many violent regimes change?
How many civil wars?
How many genocides?
Let’s not fool each other Modern ethiopia is fractured into smaller states the only thing remaining is that Name itself “ethiopia”.
A country ruled by tribes man instead of national leaders.
If this was the Roman empire history, we all know that the western will do a 2 hours documentary with HD quality, but thanks to you in 9 minutes well explained.
Lmao so true
Italy: I’m going to get Ethiopia next
Ethiopia: I’m going to ruin this man career
dull
Try it........ you will get it
:)
My ETHIOPIA...we have beautiful histories all packed with victory...so proud 🇪🇹🇪🇹
Proud to be Ethiopian!
i am also proud you're ethiopian.
my regards to Ethiopia❤
From Egypt
Ethiopia will continue to be great because it is a CHRISTIAN NATION!!!
LONG LIVE JESUS!!
LONG LIVE FREE ETHIOPIA!!!
-- With love from Vietnam.
ToiYeuYAHWEH nope it isn’t they’re almost fifty fifty with moslem
@@arronsmith6777
Get a pair of glasses!
As a Sicilian, God Bless Ethiopia 🇪🇹
አንቺን ለማቆየት ለነብሴ ቅንጣት አልሰስትም ኢትዮጵያዬ, ትላንትም, ዛሬም, ነገም በልጆችሽ። ወሬውን ለወረኞች ትተነዋል
Are you saying something in Ahmaric
srry i dont speak enchantment table language
That is what Ethiopian alphabet looks like. Beautiful!
He's a 10 year old trying to be funny
@Harpreet Singh yes he said I won’t be scared to lose my life for you my country
እናት ሀገር ኢትዮጵያ ባንቺ ሁሌም እኮራለሁ!!!
Mother land Ethiopia always I am proud of you!!!
So that's where the inspiration for Black Panther came from. The country he rules, not the character himself.
Leothein Duskseeker
Italy was expecting to slaughter tribesmen with modern technology, how was that any different?
Shimune Lol the Italians wanted to use modern weapons of the time on a supposed backwards country. Then the other side has more people and then we hear “hey that is not fair!”
My wife’s stepfather said when he was a young teen his father showed him some pictures of “remains” of Italian Soldiers after going over by the Ethiopians and wanted him to remember them if he ever got an urge to join the Army or go to war.
my parents grew up in adwa. Its crazy to think that my great great grandparents probably fought in this battle against the italians near their village.
Big facts
True
So cool
Poor italy
Been such a mess since the Empire fell
I guess you could say they've been.... Divided and conquered ? I'll see myself out..
@DENIS TRUSHKIN try beating the mighty Roman empire using troops who wore no armour, were lead by noble women and beat the normans, scotch, Viking etc. Imagine being the begining of the end of Caesar and his greatness.
@DENIS TRUSHKIN tribal people wore leather at best, Romans had armour, training tactics, etc. Barbarians won the war 😉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Empire
EAT your liver, poor delusional liar
who was led by noble women and defeated Normans?
Ethiopia is one of the earliest places of Christianity
@Devil's Canyon so anything early sucks?
Sucks for them I guess, still better than Islam but not by much.
I love how every old comment is pretty much deleted
iSweat-Axion better then Islam? Nothing wrong with Ethiopians being muslims
Dank Memer Christianity for the most part finished shedding its barbaric ways 200 years ago, Islam has barely begun.
Respect too Ethiopia, from your somali sister🇸🇴🇸🇴
They lost because they underestimated their enemy, they were over confident and forgot that Ethiopia was less fractured than other African nations. Also the support of Russia helped.
Russia didn't help us they sent only advisor in the second war that's it!!
@@princessmenen9064 in the second war they were orthodox no more. They were communist, so they didn't have a religious reason to help.
@@princessmenen9064 so 100k russian rifles do not count?
They defeted on four battles so they have a chance to reestimate before going the second battle.
Fabio Ferrarese no man, they wuz kangs. They created all those guns.
Women fought in the war too especially in the 5 year occupation by the Italians where Ethiopian women went in undercover and provided info to the armed resistance which were very decisive in winning the war.
Thats a whole different war ..during musoloni
Thats happened 45 YEARS LATER from this war when africa's scramble/colonisation happened ..
theyre trying to twist the story by like but we invaded them british help them blah blah which is DECADES later N they come back for revenge only stay 4 yearsn got lost again tho
Women rarely help during war, I doubt this ever happened, unless you have written history of this actually occurring, then I’ll happily digress.
Italians really underestimated their opponent, and were hasty. But the Ethiopians put their differences aside and came together. That's the winning combo right there!
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We Ethiopians are like tom and Jerry when outside enemy came we defeat it together and after that you know what it cames
Not quite exactly. Ethiopians were decimated by epidemic infections rising into the Army caused by terrible hygienic conditions. Menelik was told his adivisors there was high risk of defections and army disbanding so he decided to break the statlemate and attack the Italian troops advancing showing they had no knowledge of territory. It resulted a lucky and wise decision. 🤔
@@raffaeleirlanda6966 Successful people make their own luck. Shows that he was a brilliant military strategist to prevail with so much odds, natural and man-made, stacked up against him and his army
@@TylerDurden-bb8lw 👍
You forgot to mention the huge role the empress played. She came up with the idea to cut water supply from an Italin fortification forcing soldiers to weaken and venture out. She also was heavily involved in this effort.
Elaborate who is this empress huh at the time i thought they had a king
@@bigboijoni4328 the emperors wife name is etege taitu (taytu) if you wanna wikipedia her
Italy: *gets Rekt*
Cesar: why did we conquer an empire for you?
*caesar
@@xocky8808 *Ceasar
@@cippy5450 caesar*.......
@@danielgreally2826 *Cäsar
*Kaiser
A big respect Ethiopia I am from Somalia there are our neighbors
Ofcours!
With that being the case, you should let Ethiopia keep the Ogaden. They earned it.
How does that nuclear waste taste like?
@@fatherelijahcal9620 No they haven't earned it because it was given away by the colonizers to Ethiopia. The Ogaden is known in ethiopia as the Somali region for a reason.
Next to Killing Jesus invading Ethiopia was one of the worst mistakes the Italians ever made
Lol did they really kill Jesus
@@josepho3583 Jesus was killed by Romans so yes
They won eventually it was just pointless. Also with Italy's very long history of blunders I think that it wasn't the second worst. Ide say the most retarded thing was inviting an enemy general renown for his loyalty to be their king... at which point he turned around and siezed Italy for his emperor.
@@theflaggedyoutuberii4311 how's that bad though?
@@theoneaboveall6751 Which One
its been 125years today since this great and proudly war
Ethiopians are powerful and strong asf, the only African country that was able to defeat a European power and still kept its country
@Mohamed Khaled we all miss Ali Pascha :(
@Mohamed Khaled the ottomans even had prussian advisors at the battle and still lost. Ali pasha could have modernized egypt to the point of keeping up with other european powers but they wouldnt let him except france
"We"? Were you there?
@Mohamed Khaled you know the same Egypt that won to the Ottomans also lost to the Ethiopians not long after? Look up the Ethiopian-Egyptian War
@Mohamed Khaled It was the same Egypt mostly, Muhammad Ali Pasha's grandson ruled then. And yeah I'm not Ethiopian I'm just saying Ethiopia is nearly impossible to conquer with that fighting spirit and mountains.
A little known fact is that the Ethiopians had depleted uranium spear tips
Is that a joke or based in fact? If that is true that is awesome.
@@vancefalls4311 a joke duh
And I have heard they were double wielding those uranium tipped spears while riding on the backs of iron clad albino lions with forged carbon steel claw extensions.
Actually they had access to a rare and very durable metal, it's only found in africa, which is why italians didn't have it. Ethiopians used it to make very light and sharp spears that could easily be thrown due to their light weight, also flying cars
Madara Uchiha fact or bullshit? Somehow reminds me of black panther
When the europeans colonised africa most african cultures were destroyed and europeanized some of the only cultures to completely survive was the arabs, ethiopians and the zulus. All of them fought bravely
Yep yes
I am Italian and Ethiopian and Native American. This is so good to know
I'd love more videos that focus on the perspective of non-European countries. While I love all your videos, ones like this remind me that huge chunks of history go untaught when Europe isn't involved.
Eddie Hanson Yes! I couldn’t agree more myself. Sadly most people in non-European countries don’t care to show off their history or their importance. This is slowly changing this decade I feel. At least in the Caribbean and Latin Nations we’re seeing them embrace their roots and how much of their culture and history is so rich and not because of European contributions. Even beauty standards are changing to more individual looks instead of European centered. I’m honestly glad it’s happening. I’m kinda bored of European history being the only one being shoved down our throats when there’s infinitely more to see.
Mali Empire is a fascinating study. So is neighboring Songhai. The Ashanti kingdom is also a good study. The Zulu are interesting but be warned Shaka has more in common with Gengis Khan then a noble hero. He has been romanticized by the west. He actually died before the Anglo-Zulu war
non european countries history is boring and cannot compete to the slightest.Only china can maybe have a spot in there,but in general,european history is superior compared to others
You likely live in a European style nation probably the US with such limited time in schools they have to prioritize the most relevant information to the nation which is European history and even then have to gloss over a lot it's a damn shame but a fact of life but we can independently learn about history using the wonders of the internet
Arthas Menethil lol
Always proud to be Ethiopian always 😍
I'm Ethiopia as well are you from oromia or other regions
OK , good starvation for you....ahhh
Carlo Marini aaaw look at this hurt little facist 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ambessashield9360 , meet a good psychiatrist.... Good luck!
@@carlomarini4255 stfu pig headed fascist
I am from Ethiopian and I leave in the USA since April 2011 , and I am following every news about my country ,but I never and ever expected about my country's history presented from foreigners , thank you so much @Armchair.
I live history , I am a history student.
Now I understand and realizes that you should get 'subscribe' and 'like' for your channel , and I did that.
You deserve it.
March 09/2021
USA
Even 30 years eritrea war agaist ethiopian eritrea indipendence ,, tigray war nice story to read