The fact that Menelik's wife, Empress Taytu, got no mention here is sad. She was a strategic genius and key advisor to her husband and generally just a badass.
you are right we actually learn about her in our history classes since we were in the elementary classes just like we learn about Menelik, one of the strategies he used to win over the Italians were her idea it was to surround the Italian force so they would not have any access to food, water, and access to more weapon which make their force and their confidence weaker and beside her, a lot of woman from different ethnicities also participated in the war through giving medical services to those who were wounded and actually fighting if they come in contact with the enemy
Yes totally agree Erin. Just shared this video with my son and the first things I told him and clarified is the role of Empress Taytu! She sure is a badass!!! 👍🏾😁
"Italy thought Ethiopia would be a stompfest, and technically they were right, but they mixed up which side would be doing the stomping." OUCH, Blue just gave colonial Italy some 4th degree burns!
@@nicolozaniolo4483 and how many Italians died trying to be like Germany and Ethiopians were basically fighting with swords and still won embarrassing :(
@@Aggressiveincome9999 lmao are you illiterate? Ethiopians under Menelik were in contact with Russians and bought ak 47s and Dragunovs rifles and used it against the Italians. Also, Italy won the second italo-Abbysynian war. Obey your colonizers young blood. But respect to the richest colonizer in history, Mansa Musa Keita from the Kingdom of Mali, he was a good colonizer, better than the fascist Italians lol.
@@nicolozaniolo4483 bro the only reason why italy took ethiopia in 1938, its because they used chumecal weapon, because musalini know that it is the only way to bit ethiopia, end italy never colonised ethiopia, they only took less than 10% of the country territory
Edmind Sundaram saddened by how you have perceived this 1st the king fled bc his advisors and the ppl told him to if he had stayed and got caught it would be an actual disaster next Italy was never recognized as the ruler of Ethiopia that's propaganda . 1st of what is colonization To impose ones culture on to others and taking a way their identity Ethiopia has their own religion the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Ethiopia has 80+ languages all of which are indigenous Ethiopia has their own culture ,calendar as well as many other things And the next one would be exploitation and at least 50-70% percent control of the land Italy was loosing lots of resources and money as well as soldiers so Italy was in reality exploiting them selves and didn't even take out not 1 natural resource And Italy couldn't even control 10% of the land with stability so .... Occupation not colonization buddy boy
@@91YEHNAH mate, if you know anything about Ethiopia's curremt state then you know we're on our way to greatness again. We have one of the most democratic and fair leaders in Africa, one of the fastest growing economies, amazing projects coming up to improve literacy rates, enegy solutions with the dam, income from the dam, improving tribsm imposed rules, so much more
@@NoRockinMansLand thank you for sharing this. In the west it's only newsworthy when someplace is not doing well (I remember the famine happening in Ethiopia being on the news) but there aren't programs sharing when someplace is changing/growing for the better. I'm glad to hear it!
@@kristyjnh sadly, a catastrophe is more interesting than a nation doing well when it comes to the news (unless it's doing ridiculously well and/or is the most prosperous nation in the region/continent)
More African history please please please! It's so glossed over and countries and histories lumped together in the US school system and I wanna know SO MUCH more. Excellent video, Blue!
I really wish OSP had been around when I was in school, I imagine I would have taken my history classes much more seriously just by having this foundation to start from
“Go to your nearest Ethiopian restaurant and eat some injera bread”. >checks google for nearest Ethiopian restaurant. >120+ miles away. Can I use a homework pass?
It's entirely worth it. If you live near Canada, come to Toronto, there's two separate Ethiopian neighborhoods with competing groups of restaurants and cafes
well I found an Ethiopian restaurant in Helsinki, but what with current events going on, I don't really feel like going there... I wonder how much delivery clear across the city would cost.
Hey Italy, I'm sorry I'm making fun your ancestors while you're dealing with the quarantine. Our jokes are meant in good fun, (and laughing at Mussolini every once in a while is good for the soul, right?) but it stiiiiill feels impolite of me to kick someone while they're down. Know that myself, Red, and the OSP community are thinking of you, and of communities around the world affected to varying degrees by covid-19. If you're spending more time inside or working from home, maybe watch the new season of Castlevania, or do some pleasure-reading to keep your spirits up, and try to stay active with small indoor workouts - Stay safe and stay strong, you'll get through this. In bocca al lupo. -B P.S.: For those of you with university cancellations or Work-From-Home directions, Red and I compiled a list of our top tips for productivity and sanity: twitter.com/OSPyoutube/status/1237921474603814912
Italian here, no offense taken, we aren't very proud of the whole fascist african history-thing. Still we are in quaratine, so a good OSP video can alleviate the boredom
The Ethiopian government has been making a lot of progress on governance reforms for the last two years, if they can keep it up they'll be a major player in East Africa's economic development going forward.
Rwanda really, really turned things around positively. Nigeria could be better if they just managed their money better and worked more on making their agricultural industry more efficient.
Not sure if Ethiopia is in the mess described further but the trend is seen across the whole east coast of Africa. it's a miracle what chinese money, some meager 50+ years of port/territory lease and becoming China's China can do.
@@Destroyer2150 Africa is underrated, from the Mali Empire, to the Nubian of Kush, to Ethiopia, to Zimbabwe and the Great Zimbabwe, to the Khoisan and everything else.
Another fun thing about Ethiopia: until recently, it had a native Jewish population that seems to date back to the Second Temple Period. They obeyed the law of the Torah (the five books of Moses), but seemed to have no knowledge of the Talmud (the expanded list of ritual rules that underpins most of modern Judaism) -- this led to some friction with Orthodox Jews, who have traditionally held that the Talmud dates back to Moses, and was passed down orally for centuries before it was written down. Also interestingly, they were not aware that the Temple in Jerusalem had been destroyed, hence the assumption that they were separated from the main body of Judaism at least as far back as the Second Temple period, before the Romans sacked Jerusalem.
Apollo They still exist. When Israel learnt about them, they conducted a massive operation to relocate them to Israel, so almost all of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) now live in Israel. I believe this was a response to the Derg (USSR backed military junta in Ethiopia) being not the greatest to religious minorities.
Ethiopia: The country that had a borderline-unbroken monarchy since its founding, outchristianed Rome, and fought off european colonisation so well it was basically real life Wakanda. Also Ethiopia: Ethiopians had food? (insert laugh track here)
@@notoriousgoblin83 Rastafarians hold the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (he's mentioned towards the end of the vid) as their Messiah. The religion sprung up from the Back to Africa and Ethiopianism movements in the Americas post abolition. These movements focused on things like African pride and as such, Ethiopia was a prime example of African culture because of its long and proud history.
Greetings from Brazil! Much respect for ethiopians, your ancestors were the first to cultivate what became our primary source of economy on our early history, the coffee. Ethiopians also standed strong to preserve their country, religion and culture in front of muslim expansion.
Ethiopans conquered brazil at one time even the whole india middle east all africa the maya civilization believed builed by ethiopians even egyptian pyramids its vast and big history
@@Samm815 I'm not going to lie that the video was kind of "false advertised" but in their defense they did give a good run down of why Africa should be receiving the reductionist assumptions that it does. Also Blue did say that he planned to go in depth with specific civilizations after that. Granted he's only done 2 so far but still.
As an American that HATES what our "history" has done to other civilizations, I feel it's right to congratulate your country on kicking Italy's butt, along with the many years of avoiding being colonized. I would also like to personally apologies for any and all wrong doing by my ancestors, it might not mean much but I am sorry; and would love to learn more about your country and culture.
@Azazel Nicholas because history rhymes if you forget it,and that's why the best diplomacy with Russia is to have a buffer state in between you two. P.S.:Hello from the only orthodox Latin country.
@@spamachuchan8824 theoretically speaking america din worst that you might think if you consider that isis who destroyed ancient babylonianstatues and site was sponsored by USA.
@@spamachuchan8824 White guilt is some powerful stuff. One person claiming to be Ethiopian shows up and you start self-flagellating and apologizing. What a site i've witnessed today.
Broooo I’m Ethiopian and this video made me smile so much. People overlook us so much bc we were never colonized, and never enslaved, it’s amazing to see history nerds paying attention to our culture! (I’m joking about the history nerd thing- ily guys so much lol)
@imlaughinq7445not the empire and people tho, border raids happened everywhere. Ethiopia as a nation has never been colonized forcefully or subjugated under a foreign empire
@imlaughinq7445 what?? to be honest Ethiopia participated in the slave trade (which is the dark part of our history) but we were never enslaved by any nation
As an italian, I'm really happy about this video.Cause a lot of italians (fastists for the most) still think that Mussolini created an empire, but hat is far from the truth. the only thing that we can be proud about the Ethiopian Campaign was the strength and resistence of the italian army when the English Invaded the colony. Apart form that, our little adventure in Africa was made for the most of geneocides and atrocities. So, thank you for spreading real history. Also I'm in quarantine in Rome so your videos really help me to spend my time-
D'mt, I should have known that Lucy was the first Australopithecus Afarensis humanoid skeleton discovered and not the first human to use 100% of their brain power.
No human uses all of their brain power, not even for a moment. That would be like hitting all the buttons on a computer. It just doesn't work. All parts of the brain have their own function and they are used when that function is performed, no more.
I mean we use 100% of our brains, the movie's explanation is wrong, our brain has different parts to it and each part controls different organs and bodily functions
@stockart whiteman I remember bits, but only because they were moments where the scifi elements were just pulled out of her ass, or where the writing just broke. How does writing "break"? Basically, a piece of writing collapses under the weight of all of the plot holes, inconsistencies, and bad dialogue found within it.
I know that mythos and legends crosses into Red's territory but a vid talking about the evolution of religion from the African diaspora (i.e Yoruba and the Orisa to Haitian Vodou, and the combinations between these and Christianity) would be really cool to see what you research and present.
I'd like to see that, too, but I fear it may be a long time coming. OSP is pretty clear on their standards for research accuracy, and there is so much missing on that topic that they may not be able to hit their standard. I'd be sad to see it slip, but I can certainly understand.
Brazil received half all slaved people from Africa and due to the raw continuity of persecution (slavery became illegal only in 1888, then there was a shameful whitening effort and shot still pretty racist to this day) candoblé (the religion of orixás) has a very solid history
@@NoRockinMansLand it was five years of war and they only controlled 20% of the land which they themselves claimed they could hardly control because the peoples was fighting back.
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Mississippi still wins in terms of navigability, which is part of why the U.S. has remained so capital rich despite its hilariously sparse attention on infrastructure in its early years.
7:57 *Slight* correction: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a Miaphysite church, part of the Oriental Orthodox communion, while the Russian Orthodox Church is a regular Eastern Orthodox church. The difference is that the Ethiopian Church, like the Copts, does not accept the Chalcedonian definition, while the Eastern Orthodox do. Otherwise, fantastic video @Overly Sarcastic Productions!
It’s really great to hear about Africa. As an American it seems we’re only ever shown either war or starvation, and sadly that gives the false impression that Africa has little to offer when it’s so massive, ancient, and diverse! Please keep doing more of these types of videos.
Great video, but I’m sad the Ethiopian Jews got hardly a mention. They’re such an interesting culture, and their story evolves alongside the rest of Ethiopia.
Agreed, but let's be real, this honestly could have been 5 or 6 videos of this length to do any sort of justice to Ethiopia, but I realise this isn't blue's forté
"We in the historical community call a 'long-ass time'." John Green: "Which I will remind you is not swearing if we are talking about donkeys." The first thing that popped in my head. 😂
I saw some statistics years ago that I thought were very interesting. When the Italian's went to colonize Ethiopia, the Ethiopians didn't have enough guns to go around. Also, only about 20% of the soldiers that did have guns, had modern guns (less than 10 years old). 12% to 18% were black powder muzzle loaders, some even being the gift given by Portugal in the late 1500's! The rest were mostly springfields and Lee Enfields ( They did get rather ingenious however, when they needed to make a homemade weapon or explosives). And they still would not be defeated.
The fact they were wearing shields on their arms in the illustration was pretty cool! Even if outmatched in modern guns, those shields would've been a blessing when the bayonets and swords inevitably got drawn back when. Maybe they could've stopped shrapnel and a stray pistol round at most, too.
Dude it was Italy. Greece beat Italy a few years after getting independent. Fucking Brazil defeated Italy! How do you lose a war to a developing country (Vargas regime was a period of industrialization) from another continent!?!
Just that it's East Africa instead of South-East Africa, was in contact with Europe since millenia and is actually way more interesting. Edit: Sorry, though it was supposed to be in the west/southwest, the actors in the movie threw me off.
It’s so great that Ethiopia is finally in the spotlight! I myself an Ethiopian and am proud of my history and heritage! And about that homework... I had some last night, does that count?
Damn straight! First matchlocks for the Japanese, and now I learned they tossed Ethiopia their proto-rifles too. Portugal loved to dole out their trade(?) buddies the boomsticks, huh?
There's a funny story connected to Ethiopia that I've read in one book about the fourth crusade. Basically, one of the Ethiopian kings (don't remember the name of the guy, can check later) at a very old age left reign to his successor and went for a grand pilgrimage of many Christian holy places. At one point, he reached Constantinople, then ruled by emperor Alexios IV whom Crusaders put on the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire. He entered the emperor's palace/hallway/court (again, can't remember it at the moment) dressed in his full regalia with his Ethiopian clothes and a cross tattooed on his forehead (Egyptian Christians still sometimes practice tattooing crosses on their bodies, although I don't think that forehead is a common choice) in the middle of emperor's meeting with various crusading counts and dukes, and those western European guys were stunned, because they have never seen a black Christian king, dressed richer than their own monarchs, with tattooed crossed on his face. This image was so strange, foreign and shocking to them, that they couldn't speak for a while.
Years ago a friend took me to an Ethiopian restaurant, my inital reaction was "Food isn't the fist thing I think of when Ethiopia is mentioned." HOLY MAN! That was some of the beast food I've ever had!
Biracial Boy oh, cool, keep it up👍 . Mind if I ask about neighbors? I’ve heard they are making progress too, especially Rwanda, is EAF a realistic idea or just cool concept ?
Pleeeease do more African history videos!!! I’m the daughter of a South African immigrant living in Europe, which means my African history is limited to ‘we colonised this place and this happend’ and what my mom has told me about Apartheid South Africa. I really love learning about my continents history and I’m so happy and grateful that you’ve taken the time to share our stories with the world :))))
SandroProg I’m from Ethiopia, studying in Japan and I love my Italian classmates here in Tokyo. They’re very kind and supportive people I’ve ever met. I love Italy ❤️
Nothing about Ethiopia post-1991 is remotely so simple or, honestly, peaceful. But I also can't be too hard on the man for not going into detail on that--for one, it's very complicated and would probably require its own entire video to explain the clusterfuck hell that is Ethiopian ethnic group relations and how those interacted in the EPRDF and Eritrean states' foundations, etc. LET ALONE discussing the Oromo situation at all, which is way more touchy and volatile than anything I think this channel has ever discussed. More to the point, 1991 is both way out of Blue's typical historical wheelhouse, and also a little close to the modern day for ANY historian to be entirely comfortable rendering judgments on it--especially since the parties involved are still there and very largely unchanged. I'm fine with leaving the simple version of "things are better and more stable now," because while that's a very simplified answer it's correct when you compare the situation to whatever the hell the Derg was, or even the early EPRDF period.
They did a whole video without bringing in a crackpot to talk about how Ethiopians used ancient alien technology to carve their churches in order to signal space ships. That automatically makes them better than the History Channel. That should be the world's lowest bar to clear; but the History channel always seems to fail at it.
The actual difference between the Amharic and Italian treaties was very minor, just a very important distinction. The Amharic treaty said Ethiopia could conduct foreign affairs through Italy if they chose, which I guess might make sense, ask the Europeans to deal with the different Europeans. But the Italian version didn't say they had the option, it said they were required to. That essentially meant Ethiopia was an Italian protectorate, and other European nations deferred to the Italian version and refused to have any diplomatic contacts with Ethiopia because the treaty said they had to do it through Italy.
Ethiopia has a unique and fascinating history, thank you for sharing it with us. I would certainly like to learn more about African history. Ancient civilisations from North Africa, the Sahel, Kush, Zimbabwe, and many other areas are veiled in mystery and well worth investigation.
The historians have vast records on the empires that most marked the african colonies.... From the zulu, the mali empire, the norther berber states of morroco, algeria, etc, the egyption, nubian and Ethiopian empire, the kongo empire... The problem is alot of the rest of africa was mainly... tribes... Just like you dont remember almost none of the pre roman german tribes only the ones in contact with rome, or all the native american tribes that existed or exist, its hard to have documentation when cultures dont interract with others, make great achievements or dont write it down clearly and safelty for future generations.
Not as depressing as basically the entirety of Western historian view of East Europe being just Russia and Mongols as though nothing else of importance or interest happened besides Russia's rise. AND THEY ARE ON THE SAME FUCKING CONTINENT. I would say that Africa gets far more attention than Europe (excluding Western Europe) when it comes to history and I know this for a fact as I studied history in UK, so yeah.
There's an Ethiopian restaurant literally right up the block from my campus in Austin. My dad went there once, got hooked on the food, and every time my folks visit me he's like "Let's go to Taste of Ethiopia!~"
Gosh, Ethiopia is so cool. I have always been fascinated by their history, especially about their Orthodox history (because, like, YES!!) and this video has really piqued interest. Edit: Ethiopian food is AMAZING.
@@AccipiterSmith nah. It was pretty much a buffer state between the Raj and French Indochina. Britain and France couldnt decide what to do of it without pissing the other side off, so they just let it be. Much of Thailand's modernization (and partial christianization!) was taken from both France and Britain. Hell, during WW2 thai catholics were persecuted due to it being a "french religion".
Ethiopia always catches my interest, thank you for that. As for future African content... I know it's not exactly your wheelhouse, being almost entirely based in archeology and reconstruction, but I'd love to see a video on either the Khoisan or the Bantu.
Is there much Khoisan history? I understand that they are fascinating to anthropologists, being ethnically very distinct to what we normally think of as "Africans", but did they actually write anything down? Is there any written record, or simply dying oral tradition - basically mythology?
@@chriswilliamson9993 Okay. First off, there are a few mistaken assumptions, history is not equivalent to writing, else history would end about 5000 years ago when cuneiform was consolidated. Anatomically modern humans alone have been around at least 40 times that long, and I don't think ignoring 97.5% of the time we've been around is a fair representation for the study of the past. Secondly, writing is not intrinsically more reliable than oral accounts, merely less prone to change. Books were and are written by people, who are fully capable of making the exact same mistakes of memory and attribution in writing that they are in speech. A book written a hundred years ago might be more closely placed to the events or relates, but there is nothing intrinsic to writing that makes it more valuable, especially when so much writing is derived from orally transmitted information. People often bring up the game of telephone (or Chinese whispers) to demonstrate the inherently unreliable nature of oral transmission, but I would argue this is a disingenuous comparison, telephone is a game, and no matter what the rules say, everyone knows it's much more fun to screw up the message (intentionally or otherwise, you might not necessarily intend to screw it up, but because it's a game, you're hardly going to devote any real effort to remembering the exact wording) being passed along, whereas to people living in the culture, the details were important, either of great cultural significance or of life and death religious importance (and to most people before modern times (and to some even today) religious matters *were* life and death), and those responsible for that information were held to rigorous standards, and would refresh and repeat their knowledge on a regular basis. Moving on, to answer your question, to my knowledge, there are no historical texts by Khoisan peoples (that is to say, texts from the past describing the contemporary or prior events), aside from the possibility of some from the last century or so. I'm sure there are innumerable oral accounts of the past sent down the generations that are of incalculable value, both to anthropologists and oral historians. Archeology can help immensely in a lot of areas, though not others. Also, and this is something I only learned after my comment, so it's a correction of myself, apparently the Khoisan are less a single group of people and more of a catch all term for everyone who loved in the southern parts of Africa and hot pushed around during the Bantu migrations, basically the African equivalent of the pre-Indo-Europeans (not to be confused with the Proto-Indo-Europeans). Apologies for the wall of text.
Thank you OSP, for being one of the few historical channels that talk about African nations beyond "slaves and colony". I hooe to see even more of these.
This is an excellent summary, and one I'd gladly give to my students as a very easily digestible overview. Great stuff! More African History please! Your channel is a wonderful resource to provide additional resources to university students who are beginning to learn the complex and rich history of an incredible continent.
Just to give some facts Have our own calander Our own alphabet Our own numerical system Coffee originated in Ethiopia The green yellow red flag most Africans and rasteferians adopted is from Ethiopia as a sense of independence . . .
@@OverlySarcasticProductions Since I've enjoyed your remarks on the great leveler - how about a series of smaller plagues that have changed history. Or maybe the history of various merchant cities of Italy that time and again broke quarantines - bribes, false sanitary statements, etc. - and caused plague again and again to break out in Italy (Renaissance globalization).
I was literally just in Ethiopia 3 weeks ago!! I learned a lot of this stuff while I was there! It’s really nice to get even more insight and knowledge and such an incredible place! The people are so warm and friendly and their food is absolutely incredible!!
There's a great Ethiopian place in Boston near the Orange Line Mass ave stop, and I definitely recommend getting the peanut tea with your meal. Blue wasn't lying, that food is amazing.
@@Agent-E Probably because it's a semitic language and the script they used only wrote consonants. Which means that we don't know what the vowels were. We fill in two or three /a/ so we can pronounce it, but it might just as well have been any other combination of /a/, /ɑ/, /e/, /ɛ/, /i/, /o/, /u/ and /ə/ (except multiple /ə/ in adjacent syllables, probably).
@@MushVPeets Sorry to disappoint you, but there must be a vowel after the first consonant (three consonants in a row, or ending with two consonants, also doesn't work, but that doesn't apply here). 😉 Da'mit might work though. ;-P
OSP, if ever in North Carolina, bring the ingredients, I'll make you all an Ethiopian Dinner. I learned to cook the stuff when I was living there back in 2007.
I'm sponsoring an Ethiopian child through Compassion, and it's really nice to know that kind of history, especially the history of christianity in Ethiopia. Thanks so much!
I don’t know why the Italian government decided to arm all its troops with over cooked spaghetti instead of guns for that particular campaign. Truly, it was the greatest miscalculation in military history.
i had a tutor in high school who was an ethiopian immigrant. she was so enthusiastic about her country's history it was infectious. happy to see the enthusiasm is there in this video too.
This is super interesting. I've had a few exchange students at my school from Ethiopia. I graduated high school in 2013. One of them said he had a direct line to Menelik II. As a person who finds history a great nap time I had no idea who that was or if they were really as important as they touted. >.>; Also. Thanks for your videos. They help me catch up on the history that i slept through >.>; and it's totally worth it to hear about it all. Especially from someone who is actually excited to talk about it.
@@Joel-zc3xl That isn't true, he is a descendent of Sahle Selassie, who in turn was descended from the main Solomonic branch. If the guy he went to school with isn't lying then he really is royalty. I myself am related to Tewodros II' s father, Hailegiyorgis. That would buy technicality to make me related to the Solomonic dynasty but I haven't done enough research on it yet, as Tewodros's father had unascertainable claims to Emperor Fasiledes's offspring.
Somalia next? Proto Somalian City states we’re part of the Info Greco-Roman trade route. They were the first to acceptislam in Africa and have the oldest mosque outside of Saudi. All the Sultanates Traded with countries as far as China and Persia Only African nation to defeat a European nation both on land and sea. (Portuguese) The darwiish resistance against colonialism. How Italy struggled to keep controll of South Somalia. Somalia’s independence. Somalia’s socialist revolution. Somalia’s call for pan africanism. Cold War. War with Ethiopia. Fall of Somalia. Anarchy, Radical islamism, corrupt government. Just a suggestion for topics to talk about. P.s I loved the Ethiopia video.
Being of Irish descent I can totally relate to Ethiopia, given the remarkable similarities in the histories of these 2 nations... with the possible exception of everything that happened.
Being of European descent, I've always being pretty Eurocentric in my history interests, but I've always being interested in Ethiopian history, so thank you so much for this video!
@@budakbaongsiah That's an old profile picture that I haven't changed cause I'm too lazy, and it has little to do with history, moreso that it used to be my favourite game, and I don't know why this matters anyway?
@@alexbattaglia8297 eurocentric or westeurocentric? I mean what can you tell me about the Danubian Principalities,Albania,the Golden Horde,the Ottomans,Polis Lithuania or Scandinavia?
I'm very glad this video was made; Ethiopian history is my favorite across the world; it's a very unique region of the world and is extremely old and complex, despite being criminally understudied. Also they gave us coffee and humans to drink it. You know, the important things.
It should be noted that although the legitimacy of specifically Solomon and the Queen of Sheba referred to in the bible having a son who became emperor of Ethiopia is very debatable (and is probably a way to make their christianity seem purer claiming that they were Jewish up until Christianity was a thing, then they were Christian, since most Christians would agree that a Jew in the times before Christianity would probably go to heaven, or at least be the modt likely one to do so), sheba was a very real kingdom in Southern Yemen, which is where the Axumites almost certainly came from. So that connection is very real, whether or not that specific ruler of that specific kingdom in Yemen had a kid who ruled Ethiopia, the rulers of Ethiopia at one point did start off coming from Yemen.
For anyone watching the video now, can I just mention the bread at the end is actually some of the best stuff I've ever eaten! And it's gluten free if you or your friends are stuck living with Celiac's (or at least the stuff I ate was)
The fact that Menelik's wife, Empress Taytu, got no mention here is sad. She was a strategic genius and key advisor to her husband and generally just a badass.
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you are right we actually learn about her in our history classes since we were in the elementary classes just like we learn about Menelik, one of the strategies he used to win over the Italians were her idea it was to surround the Italian force so they would not have any access to food, water, and access to more weapon which make their force and their confidence weaker and beside her, a lot of woman from different ethnicities also participated in the war through giving medical services to those who were wounded and actually fighting if they come in contact with the enemy
Yes totally agree Erin. Just shared this video with my son and the first things I told him and clarified is the role of Empress Taytu! She sure is a badass!!! 👍🏾😁
To be fair, blue has a hell of a lot to cover.
@@liamchester8196 you are right he covered a lot of things in short video he did great
"Italy thought Ethiopia would be a stompfest, and technically they were right, but they mixed up which side would be doing the stomping."
OUCH, Blue just gave colonial Italy some 4th degree burns!
Lol
Mussolini killed almost 400k Ethiopians :( quite a stomping indeed
@@nicolozaniolo4483 and how many Italians died trying to be like Germany and Ethiopians were basically fighting with swords and still won embarrassing :(
@@Aggressiveincome9999 lmao are you illiterate? Ethiopians under Menelik were in contact with Russians and bought ak 47s and Dragunovs rifles and used it against the Italians. Also, Italy won the second italo-Abbysynian war. Obey your colonizers young blood. But respect to the richest colonizer in history, Mansa Musa Keita from the Kingdom of Mali, he was a good colonizer, better than the fascist Italians lol.
@@nicolozaniolo4483 bro the only reason why italy took ethiopia in 1938, its because they used chumecal weapon, because musalini know that it is the only way to bit ethiopia, end italy never colonised ethiopia, they only took less than 10% of the country territory
*whispers* They never got Ethiopia~
England: impossible perhaps the archives are incomplete
Italy: Excuse me?
@@TheOneCalledSloth They failed the first time, still applies! *laughs in battle of Adwa*
*whispers* They never got Thailand~
I was wondering when i’d see this
Mussolini: "prepare to be colonised!"
Ethiopia: "We don't do that here"
Mussolini will get nothing but dust blood
Ivan Zimita they did defeat the Ethiopia.
Edmind Sundaram saddened by how you have perceived this 1st the king fled bc his advisors and the ppl told him to if he had stayed and got caught it would be an actual disaster next Italy was never recognized as the ruler of Ethiopia that's propaganda .
1st of what is colonization
To impose ones culture on to others and taking a way their identity
Ethiopia has their own religion the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Ethiopia has 80+ languages all of which are indigenous
Ethiopia has their own culture ,calendar as well as many other things
And the next one would be exploitation and at least 50-70% percent control of the land
Italy was loosing lots of resources and money as well as soldiers so Italy was in reality exploiting them selves and didn't even take out not 1 natural resource
And Italy couldn't even control 10% of the land with stability so ....
Occupation not colonization buddy boy
Ethiopia: "call an ambulance, but not for me"
@@edmind47 mussolini won the 2nd war
As an Ethiopian I pride myself in knowing my history well, this pretty much sums it all up. Bravo 👏🏽
Such a shame looking at your country now... What a fall from greatness.
@@91YEHNAH mate, if you know anything about Ethiopia's curremt state then you know we're on our way to greatness again. We have one of the most democratic and fair leaders in Africa, one of the fastest growing economies, amazing projects coming up to improve literacy rates, enegy solutions with the dam, income from the dam, improving tribsm imposed rules, so much more
Y’all need the Solomonic dynasty back but as a constitutional monarchy instead of a absolute monarchy
@@NoRockinMansLand thank you for sharing this. In the west it's only newsworthy when someplace is not doing well (I remember the famine happening in Ethiopia being on the news) but there aren't programs sharing when someplace is changing/growing for the better. I'm glad to hear it!
@@kristyjnh sadly, a catastrophe is more interesting than a nation doing well when it comes to the news (unless it's doing ridiculously well and/or is the most prosperous nation in the region/continent)
More African history please please please! It's so glossed over and countries and histories lumped together in the US school system and I wanna know SO MUCH more. Excellent video, Blue!
I 100% agree
I hope Blue does a video Mali or the Ashanti Empire in the future
There are entire channels dedicated to the history of Africa
* FromNothing
* Hometeam History
* Ronu creative aka Basic Nigerian histroy
@@timothymanfrost8362 much thanks for this I love African history
This. I can’t even get African history classes in college!
The channel Rare Earth spent several months and more than a dozen videos talking about Ethiopia and Somalia.
I’ve had to research Ethiopia for school thing that’s canceled semi-cancelled so thank you blue for helping out
Stikin Yep THIS
I really wish OSP had been around when I was in school, I imagine I would have taken my history classes much more seriously just by having this foundation to start from
bruhh, 666 ay i got a funne number that won’t stay. WooOooOooOo
I had done mine on El Salvador.
“Go to your nearest Ethiopian restaurant and eat some injera bread”.
>checks google for nearest Ethiopian restaurant.
>120+ miles away.
Can I use a homework pass?
You have to try it atleast once in your life.
It's entirely worth it. If you live near Canada, come to Toronto, there's two separate Ethiopian neighborhoods with competing groups of restaurants and cafes
So I just looked up injera bread near me, and the closest restaurant is called Lucy, which is just awesome.
I found the bread too vinegar-y, but the vegetables were very good.
well I found an Ethiopian restaurant in Helsinki, but what with current events going on, I don't really feel like going there... I wonder how much delivery clear across the city would cost.
I’m Ethiopian and they did such a terrible job teaching history in school. You taught it to me 1,000X better. Thank you 🙏
Italy: *Now we take Ethiopia*
Ethiopia: *HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN?*
LMFAOOO underrated comment
LMAOO
Lol 😂😂😂
Im dead 😂😂😂
@Stained Glass Window I am not Tedla Melaku I am his fan 😋
Hey Italy,
I'm sorry I'm making fun your ancestors while you're dealing with the quarantine. Our jokes are meant in good fun, (and laughing at Mussolini every once in a while is good for the soul, right?) but it stiiiiill feels impolite of me to kick someone while they're down.
Know that myself, Red, and the OSP community are thinking of you, and of communities around the world affected to varying degrees by covid-19. If you're spending more time inside or working from home, maybe watch the new season of Castlevania, or do some pleasure-reading to keep your spirits up, and try to stay active with small indoor workouts - Stay safe and stay strong, you'll get through this.
In bocca al lupo.
-B
P.S.: For those of you with university cancellations or Work-From-Home directions, Red and I compiled a list of our top tips for productivity and sanity: twitter.com/OSPyoutube/status/1237921474603814912
Overly Sarcastic Productions
Hi there
as we day here in Limerick, that's pure sound!
Don't apologize
I agree making fun of Mussolini is fun and the season of Castlevania was great, but the Alucard sex scene took me by surprise.
Italian here, no offense taken, we aren't very proud of the whole fascist african history-thing. Still we are in quaratine, so a good OSP video can alleviate the boredom
People who wanna colonize Ethiopia: “exist”
Ethiopia: No, that’s illegal. You can’t do that.
Colonists: *Exist*
Ethiopia: "So, you've chosen death"
Ashley Hansen as a half european and half ethiopian, this is absolutely hilarious
@@manuelredgrave8348 Colonists: **EXIST**
Ethiopia: *Heavy Metal Stops*
*Locks and loads*
***DEATH METAL BEGINS***
You're not funny
@@thehistorybuff1883 youre jealous
Fun fact: Ethiopia(along with Rwanda) are one of africa's fastest growing countries economically and militarily.
The Ethiopian government has been making a lot of progress on governance reforms for the last two years, if they can keep it up they'll be a major player in East Africa's economic development going forward.
Uganda and Kenia are also doing pretty good. Nigeria is a... mixed bag.
Rwanda really, really turned things around positively.
Nigeria could be better if they just managed their money better and worked more on making their agricultural industry more efficient.
Not sure if Ethiopia is in the mess described further but the trend is seen across the whole east coast of Africa. it's a miracle what chinese money, some meager 50+ years of port/territory lease and becoming China's China can do.
@@yochaiwyss3843 I am afraid I don't know what you mean by "becoming China's China".
"The power of Ethiopia will eclipse the might of the Roman Empire"
Mussolini: [Anger Noises]
"MM MM MM He no practice the occupation!" said Mussolini as he angrily walks out of Ethiopia with his wife following behind him lol.
African history didn’t even EXIST when I was in school.
Please DO MORE! I love them.
More African history! More Ethiopia really, it’s a fascinating subject
YES! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!
^^^^^
Usually Africa is brushed off in History books, but the continent was home of dozens of empires.
So many that it is kinda hard to determine.
@@Destroyer2150 Africa is underrated, from the Mali Empire, to the Nubian of Kush, to Ethiopia, to Zimbabwe and the Great Zimbabwe, to the Khoisan and everything else.
Especially if it involves food :)
Another fun thing about Ethiopia: until recently, it had a native Jewish population that seems to date back to the Second Temple Period. They obeyed the law of the Torah (the five books of Moses), but seemed to have no knowledge of the Talmud (the expanded list of ritual rules that underpins most of modern Judaism) -- this led to some friction with Orthodox Jews, who have traditionally held that the Talmud dates back to Moses, and was passed down orally for centuries before it was written down. Also interestingly, they were not aware that the Temple in Jerusalem had been destroyed, hence the assumption that they were separated from the main body of Judaism at least as far back as the Second Temple period, before the Romans sacked Jerusalem.
Cool!
What happened recently that stopped them?
Apollo They still exist. When Israel learnt about them, they conducted a massive operation to relocate them to Israel, so almost all of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) now live in Israel. I believe this was a response to the Derg (USSR backed military junta in Ethiopia) being not the greatest to religious minorities.
it was completely voluntary. Many of the Jewish people in Ethiopia were hardcore zionists, and the derg sucked.
very true
Ethiopia: The country that had a borderline-unbroken monarchy since its founding, outchristianed Rome, and fought off european colonisation so well it was basically real life Wakanda.
Also Ethiopia: Ethiopians had food? (insert laugh track here)
also had a Dynasty that claim descendancy from King Solomon, the foundation of the Rastafarian movement.
@@cabellones I'm sorry, what? Do you know who founded Rastafarianism
Tbf the british had an huge empire and still no food
A lot of what makes Wakanda so special is actually based off of Ethiopia
@@notoriousgoblin83 Rastafarians hold the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (he's mentioned towards the end of the vid) as their Messiah. The religion sprung up from the Back to Africa and Ethiopianism movements in the Americas post abolition. These movements focused on things like African pride and as such, Ethiopia was a prime example of African culture because of its long and proud history.
Greetings from Brazil! Much respect for ethiopians, your ancestors were the first to cultivate what became our primary source of economy on our early history, the coffee. Ethiopians also standed strong to preserve their country, religion and culture in front of muslim expansion.
Ethiopans conquered brazil at one time even the whole india middle east all africa the maya civilization believed builed by ethiopians even egyptian pyramids its vast and big history
Bill Wurtz: "they never got Ethiopia..."
Ah, that's what the quote's from! Had forgotten and didn't get the joke; thank you. ^^;
Me: Just finished watching OSP Africa.
OSP: *releases Ethiopia*
Me: ..... Spooky!
I was just talking about Ethiopia to my friend and boom. This pulls up on my phone!
Their OSP Africa video is terrible, it should be Historiography of Africa.
@@Samm815 I'm not going to lie that the video was kind of "false advertised" but in their defense they did give a good run down of why Africa should be receiving the reductionist assumptions that it does. Also Blue did say that he planned to go in depth with specific civilizations after that. Granted he's only done 2 so far but still.
"i dare you to lead a nation surrounded by world powers"
Ethiopia: that's not a dare, that Tuesday
ziv gerson Ethiopia was a super power in the 500s ad.
ziv gerson 😂
Romanian principalities:"Hello my brother from another mother."
Poland : yeah that's a boring challenge
Indian oklaoma : yeah i agree
Afghanistan: * war noises*
Iraq: wait you guys are getting selfgovernance ?
Thailand says hi.
I am ethiopian and i really appreciate this video! I love it when people embrace ethiopian culture and history! Thank you and keep ip the good work.
cocoa butter same
As an American that HATES what our "history" has done to other civilizations, I feel it's right to congratulate your country on kicking Italy's butt, along with the many years of avoiding being colonized. I would also like to personally apologies for any and all wrong doing by my ancestors, it might not mean much but I am sorry; and would love to learn more about your country and culture.
@Azazel Nicholas because history rhymes if you forget it,and that's why the best diplomacy with Russia is to have a buffer state in between you two.
P.S.:Hello from the only orthodox Latin country.
@@spamachuchan8824 theoretically speaking america din worst that you might think if you consider that isis who destroyed ancient babylonianstatues and site was sponsored by USA.
@@spamachuchan8824 White guilt is some powerful stuff. One person claiming to be Ethiopian shows up and you start self-flagellating and apologizing. What a site i've witnessed today.
Broooo I’m Ethiopian and this video made me smile so much. People overlook us so much bc we were never colonized, and never enslaved, it’s amazing to see history nerds paying attention to our culture! (I’m joking about the history nerd thing- ily guys so much lol)
@imlaughinq7445not the empire and people tho, border raids happened everywhere. Ethiopia as a nation has never been colonized forcefully or subjugated under a foreign empire
@imlaughinq7445 what?? to be honest Ethiopia participated in the slave trade (which is the dark part of our history) but we were never enslaved by any nation
As an italian, I'm really happy about this video.Cause a lot of italians (fastists for the most) still think that Mussolini created an empire, but hat is far from the truth. the only thing that we can be proud about the Ethiopian Campaign was the strength and resistence of the italian army when the English Invaded the colony. Apart form that, our little adventure in Africa was made for the most of geneocides and atrocities. So, thank you for spreading real history.
Also I'm in quarantine in Rome so your videos really help me to spend my time-
"let's do some history" *oh yes let's let's*
better than living in current day lemme tell ya
It is OUR video
IKR i love this shit
D'mt, I should have known that Lucy was the first Australopithecus Afarensis humanoid skeleton discovered and not the first human to use 100% of their brain power.
D'mt as in the first ethiopian country?
No human uses all of their brain power, not even for a moment. That would be like hitting all the buttons on a computer. It just doesn't work. All parts of the brain have their own function and they are used when that function is performed, no more.
I mean we use 100% of our brains, the movie's explanation is wrong, our brain has different parts to it and each part controls different organs and bodily functions
@stockart whiteman I remember bits, but only because they were moments where the scifi elements were just pulled out of her ass, or where the writing just broke.
How does writing "break"? Basically, a piece of writing collapses under the weight of all of the plot holes, inconsistencies, and bad dialogue found within it.
This reference is honestly going to fly over way too many skulls.
I know that mythos and legends crosses into Red's territory but a vid talking about the evolution of religion from the African diaspora (i.e Yoruba and the Orisa to Haitian Vodou, and the combinations between these and Christianity) would be really cool to see what you research and present.
I'd like to see that, too, but I fear it may be a long time coming. OSP is pretty clear on their standards for research accuracy, and there is so much missing on that topic that they may not be able to hit their standard. I'd be sad to see it slip, but I can certainly understand.
I thought it was spelled "Orisha" you spelled it "Orisa". I am detecting conflicting information.
Brazil received half all slaved people from Africa and due to the raw continuity of persecution (slavery became illegal only in 1888, then there was a shameful whitening effort and shot still pretty racist to this day) candoblé (the religion of orixás) has a very solid history
@Mø Nälayé Oh, thanks for clarifying. I was confused as hell.
Ethiopia: *Defeats Italy*
Italy:MAMMA MIA!
Italy actually conquered Ethiopia
@@awq1257 for a couple of years then got their ass kicked.
So Ethiopia is still free
@@awq1257 no, look up Ethiopian patriots and how they had italians in a chokehold for 5 years in the capital😂
@@NoRockinMansLand it was five years of war and they only controlled 20% of the land which they themselves claimed they could hardly control because the peoples was fighting back.
Me a random italian: *laughs in this is gold*
So proud reading these comments 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹✊🏾 love you all
"Nile river is easily one of the most OP water features in history" I felt that line 😂😂 Love from india ♥️
Straight out of TierZoo
Euphrates river: [left the chat]
Tiber River: [left the chat]
Ganges River: [left the chat]
Yangtze River: [left the chat]
Yellow River: [left the chat]
Mississippi still wins in terms of navigability, which is part of why the U.S. has remained so capital rich despite its hilariously sparse attention on infrastructure in its early years.
Can confirm: Ethiopian food is amazing.
11/10, would gorge myself on injera any day.
Dang, now I'm craving injera.
As an Ethiopian/Habesha girl, I am loving this video. Thanks for doing a video on my culture Red & Blue! Might show this to my mama. 💜
Same
7:57 *Slight* correction: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a Miaphysite church, part of the Oriental Orthodox communion, while the Russian Orthodox Church is a regular Eastern Orthodox church. The difference is that the Ethiopian Church, like the Copts, does not accept the Chalcedonian definition, while the Eastern Orthodox do.
Otherwise, fantastic video @Overly Sarcastic Productions!
Actually the other correction is that Ethiopia became Christian in 34 AD during the reign of Candace
But when tedros be came a king the Orthodox became united or 1
It’s really great to hear about Africa. As an American it seems we’re only ever shown either war or starvation, and sadly that gives the false impression that Africa has little to offer when it’s so massive, ancient, and diverse! Please keep doing more of these types of videos.
Great video, but I’m sad the Ethiopian Jews got hardly a mention. They’re such an interesting culture, and their story evolves alongside the rest of Ethiopia.
Falasha are a quite unique and fascinating culture!
Agreed, but let's be real, this honestly could have been 5 or 6 videos of this length to do any sort of justice to Ethiopia, but I realise this isn't blue's forté
In fact, Ethopian Jews formed a couple local kingdoms that competed with the other pagan and christain kingdoms of the region.
All of those guys are in Israel now
@@saffron3113 not all. But a majority of the falasha
"We in the historical community call a 'long-ass time'."
John Green: "Which I will remind you is not swearing if we are talking about donkeys."
The first thing that popped in my head. 😂
Me, too.
Good. All is as it should be.
Lol I feel like that was definitely a nod to Crash Course
Honestly all this is missing is a conquest by the Mongols.
SAME!
"All your base are belong to us"
glad to see a 15 year old meme still going strong.
It was a computer nerd joke before memes were a thing.
And it will never die...
@@jlokison It was a meme before it was cool.
15??? More like 30
I had to do a project on Ethiopia a few months back and didn’t realize how interesting it was until I got really into it
Greetings to my fellow Orthodox Christians. We should be proud of our ancient heritage.
AMEN!!
Amen
We’re proud! Mama Ethiopia ለዘላለምም ትኑር!
@@wediafomalazartekie9198 tnur indeed
Pray for reunion between the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churches. We’d do better working together rather than fighting one another.
I saw some statistics years ago that I thought were very interesting. When the Italian's went to colonize Ethiopia, the Ethiopians didn't have enough guns to go around. Also, only about 20% of the soldiers that did have guns, had modern guns (less than 10 years old). 12% to 18% were black powder muzzle loaders, some even being the gift given by Portugal in the late 1500's! The rest were mostly springfields and Lee Enfields ( They did get rather ingenious however, when they needed to make a homemade weapon or explosives). And they still would not be defeated.
The fact they were wearing shields on their arms in the illustration was pretty cool! Even if outmatched in modern guns, those shields would've been a blessing when the bayonets and swords inevitably got drawn back when. Maybe they could've stopped shrapnel and a stray pistol round at most, too.
Dude it was Italy. Greece beat Italy a few years after getting independent. Fucking Brazil defeated Italy! How do you lose a war to a developing country (Vargas regime was a period of industrialization) from another continent!?!
@@pedroivantaveraferreira3037 italy got clapped, yes but this was the one they never forgot.
@@pedroivantaveraferreira3037 Well they defeated Britain in Africa a few times during the same time they occupied Ethiopia.
@absourate There is a Monte Castelo of evidence that says otherwise (and also a Sabaton song which is cool)
Ethipoia has always been one of my favorite countries. You just made that sentiment a lot stronger
👑💛🇪🇹❤
"Only African country to avoid European colonization" wait... does this mean... Guys I think we found Wakanda!
It is the closest thing to it you'll get...
Just that it's East Africa instead of South-East Africa, was in contact with Europe since millenia and is actually way more interesting.
Edit: Sorry, though it was supposed to be in the west/southwest, the actors in the movie threw me off.
Alias Anybody always thought wakanda is in south-east for some reason
@@Alias_Anybody wakanda is in the east near lake Victoria.
@@ogundimu400
South-East instead of West, my bad.
It’s so great that Ethiopia is finally in the spotlight! I myself an Ethiopian and am proud of my history and heritage! And about that homework... I had some last night, does that count?
4:29 "oh dont mind me I am just over here carving an entire church out of just a single rock cuz I am a genius and a madman probably"
😂😂😂
This time: *whispers* they never got Ethiopia
Next time: *whispers* they never got Thailand
I'm starting to think that the Portuguese really liked showing off their muskets
"Hey kids, want some muskets?"
First Japan, now Ethiopia. Who else did they just hand muskets to?
Hey, they had to feel like the big boys somehow.
They did, and they were very nice. They are the odd Europeans who gave them out and sold them instead of shooting locals with them...strange that
Damn straight! First matchlocks for the Japanese, and now I learned they tossed Ethiopia their proto-rifles too. Portugal loved to dole out their trade(?) buddies the boomsticks, huh?
“Dues ex Portugal”
*deus ex portugal
Shouldn't it be "Portugal ex machina"?
Peus Ex Porchinal
Deus ex bacalhau
*RKO outta nowhere
I've been obsessed with Ethiopian food these last couple months so I was super excited to see this video pop up and so happy you mentioned their food!
There's a funny story connected to Ethiopia that I've read in one book about the fourth crusade. Basically, one of the Ethiopian kings (don't remember the name of the guy, can check later) at a very old age left reign to his successor and went for a grand pilgrimage of many Christian holy places. At one point, he reached Constantinople, then ruled by emperor Alexios IV whom Crusaders put on the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire. He entered the emperor's palace/hallway/court (again, can't remember it at the moment) dressed in his full regalia with his Ethiopian clothes and a cross tattooed on his forehead (Egyptian Christians still sometimes practice tattooing crosses on their bodies, although I don't think that forehead is a common choice) in the middle of emperor's meeting with various crusading counts and dukes, and those western European guys were stunned, because they have never seen a black Christian king, dressed richer than their own monarchs, with tattooed crossed on his face. This image was so strange, foreign and shocking to them, that they couldn't speak for a while.
Blue: makes an informative and concise video about the history and achievements of Ethiopia
Also Blue: *pizza time*
Years ago a friend took me to an Ethiopian restaurant, my inital reaction was "Food isn't the fist thing I think of when Ethiopia is mentioned." HOLY MAN! That was some of the beast food I've ever had!
Fragrant, sensual, delicious … good Ethiopian food is amazing!
A prophecy that says that the power of Ethiopia will eclipse the might of Rome?
*N O W T H A T S A L O T O F D A M A G E*
Biracial Boy I’ve heard that Ethiopia is doing well these days, but this well ?
Biracial Boy oh, cool, keep it up👍 . Mind if I ask about neighbors? I’ve heard they are making progress too, especially Rwanda, is EAF a realistic idea or just cool concept ?
Pleeeease do more African history videos!!! I’m the daughter of a South African immigrant living in Europe, which means my African history is limited to ‘we colonised this place and this happend’ and what my mom has told me about Apartheid South Africa. I really love learning about my continents history and I’m so happy and grateful that you’ve taken the time to share our stories with the world :))))
Thank you for telling every one about the glorious history of our nation 🇪🇹
I’m from Ethiopia so I love this
I'm from Italy and I love this as well!!
I'm from neither but I also love this!
@@SandroProg stay safe out there, big man.
Much love to you and your people🙏
SandroProg I’m from Ethiopia, studying in Japan and I love my Italian classmates here in Tokyo. They’re very kind and supportive people I’ve ever met. I love Italy ❤️
Amasayganalo brother!! I'm glad you've taken your time and resources to introduce the youtube communitty to Ethoipian history. :)
Ok I see so amharic here 😂😂👍👍
@@meron5735 I was in Ethiopia for two months brother. I hope to go back in the future :)
We too thank you very much sir ,
"and -upon- by using this rock I will build my church"
Christian Crisostomo Litterally 😂
Oh my messhia teach me more 😂
Love this
Ethiopa kill their king in 18th century.
French people : "that's my boys !"
French people revolution for change love France history outside colonization. Speacily the industry development
I'm glad someone got to cover Ethiopia for a change.
You make Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia sound peaceful and on good terms. Suffice to say... No. No it was not. Not even close.
Yea I thought that was weird.
Nothing about Ethiopia post-1991 is remotely so simple or, honestly, peaceful. But I also can't be too hard on the man for not going into detail on that--for one, it's very complicated and would probably require its own entire video to explain the clusterfuck hell that is Ethiopian ethnic group relations and how those interacted in the EPRDF and Eritrean states' foundations, etc. LET ALONE discussing the Oromo situation at all, which is way more touchy and volatile than anything I think this channel has ever discussed.
More to the point, 1991 is both way out of Blue's typical historical wheelhouse, and also a little close to the modern day for ANY historian to be entirely comfortable rendering judgments on it--especially since the parties involved are still there and very largely unchanged. I'm fine with leaving the simple version of "things are better and more stable now," because while that's a very simplified answer it's correct when you compare the situation to whatever the hell the Derg was, or even the early EPRDF period.
Klaidi Rubiku how is 18000 dead the best part?
@@Quintusblake He is a salty Eritrean just ignore him.
@@ntg_noah1785 how is he salty that's the truth.
Been to an Ethiopian restaurant last year. That is delicious, and using the injera bread to scoop up the stew sure was an experience.
This channel is better than the History Channel as a whole
Anything is better than the history channel as a whole
They did a whole video without bringing in a crackpot to talk about how Ethiopians used ancient alien technology to carve their churches in order to signal space ships. That automatically makes them better than the History Channel.
That should be the world's lowest bar to clear; but the History channel always seems to fail at it.
The actual difference between the Amharic and Italian treaties was very minor, just a very important distinction. The Amharic treaty said Ethiopia could conduct foreign affairs through Italy if they chose, which I guess might make sense, ask the Europeans to deal with the different Europeans. But the Italian version didn't say they had the option, it said they were required to. That essentially meant Ethiopia was an Italian protectorate, and other European nations deferred to the Italian version and refused to have any diplomatic contacts with Ethiopia because the treaty said they had to do it through Italy.
Ethiopia has a unique and fascinating history, thank you for sharing it with us. I would certainly like to learn more about African history. Ancient civilisations from North Africa, the Sahel, Kush, Zimbabwe, and many other areas are veiled in mystery and well worth investigation.
It's quite depressing how so many western historians are in 'denile' about other ancient African cultures apart from Egypt.
I see what you did there...
Quality pun right there
The historians have vast records on the empires that most marked the african colonies.... From the zulu, the mali empire, the norther berber states of morroco, algeria, etc, the egyption, nubian and Ethiopian empire, the kongo empire... The problem is alot of the rest of africa was mainly... tribes... Just like you dont remember almost none of the pre roman german tribes only the ones in contact with rome, or all the native american tribes that existed or exist, its hard to have documentation when cultures dont interract with others, make great achievements or dont write it down clearly and safelty for future generations.
Not as depressing as basically the entirety of Western historian view of East Europe being just Russia and Mongols as though nothing else of importance or interest happened besides Russia's rise. AND THEY ARE ON THE SAME FUCKING CONTINENT. I would say that Africa gets far more attention than Europe (excluding Western Europe) when it comes to history and I know this for a fact as I studied history in UK, so yeah.
@@GoDLiKeKakashi Agree
Loving the new sound effects, keep it up
An OSP video on Ethiopia!?
OMG Yes! Another African civilization! You guys made my day!
There's an Ethiopian restaurant literally right up the block from my campus in Austin. My dad went there once, got hooked on the food, and every time my folks visit me he's like "Let's go to Taste of Ethiopia!~"
Gosh, Ethiopia is so cool. I have always been fascinated by their history, especially about their Orthodox history (because, like, YES!!) and this video has really piqued interest.
Edit: Ethiopian food is AMAZING.
*“they never got Ethiopia...”*
Exactly my first thought 😂
*"They never got Thailand..."*
@@biliminsrlar5752 i think the British got Thailand but they got to have a 50/50 rule between the two monarchs.
@@AccipiterSmith no they never got Thailand but after Japan invaded French colonies near Thailand,Japan forced Thailand to be a Japanese puppet.
@@AccipiterSmith nah. It was pretty much a buffer state between the Raj and French Indochina. Britain and France couldnt decide what to do of it without pissing the other side off, so they just let it be. Much of Thailand's modernization (and partial christianization!) was taken from both France and Britain. Hell, during WW2 thai catholics were persecuted due to it being a "french religion".
“Moral Bankruptcy”
That’s a bit too accurate
DEUS VULT ISRAEL
Although sacking Bycantium will do
Ethiopia always catches my interest, thank you for that. As for future African content... I know it's not exactly your wheelhouse, being almost entirely based in archeology and reconstruction, but I'd love to see a video on either the Khoisan or the Bantu.
Is there much Khoisan history? I understand that they are fascinating to anthropologists, being ethnically very distinct to what we normally think of as "Africans", but did they actually write anything down? Is there any written record, or simply dying oral tradition - basically mythology?
@@chriswilliamson9993 Okay. First off, there are a few mistaken assumptions, history is not equivalent to writing, else history would end about 5000 years ago when cuneiform was consolidated. Anatomically modern humans alone have been around at least 40 times that long, and I don't think ignoring 97.5% of the time we've been around is a fair representation for the study of the past. Secondly, writing is not intrinsically more reliable than oral accounts, merely less prone to change. Books were and are written by people, who are fully capable of making the exact same mistakes of memory and attribution in writing that they are in speech. A book written a hundred years ago might be more closely placed to the events or relates, but there is nothing intrinsic to writing that makes it more valuable, especially when so much writing is derived from orally transmitted information. People often bring up the game of telephone (or Chinese whispers) to demonstrate the inherently unreliable nature of oral transmission, but I would argue this is a disingenuous comparison, telephone is a game, and no matter what the rules say, everyone knows it's much more fun to screw up the message (intentionally or otherwise, you might not necessarily intend to screw it up, but because it's a game, you're hardly going to devote any real effort to remembering the exact wording) being passed along, whereas to people living in the culture, the details were important, either of great cultural significance or of life and death religious importance (and to most people before modern times (and to some even today) religious matters *were* life and death), and those responsible for that information were held to rigorous standards, and would refresh and repeat their knowledge on a regular basis.
Moving on, to answer your question, to my knowledge, there are no historical texts by Khoisan peoples (that is to say, texts from the past describing the contemporary or prior events), aside from the possibility of some from the last century or so. I'm sure there are innumerable oral accounts of the past sent down the generations that are of incalculable value, both to anthropologists and oral historians. Archeology can help immensely in a lot of areas, though not others.
Also, and this is something I only learned after my comment, so it's a correction of myself, apparently the Khoisan are less a single group of people and more of a catch all term for everyone who loved in the southern parts of Africa and hot pushed around during the Bantu migrations, basically the African equivalent of the pre-Indo-Europeans (not to be confused with the Proto-Indo-Europeans).
Apologies for the wall of text.
@@Great_Olaf5 For the Bantus he'd need piles upon piles of videos... So many powerful kingdoms and empires.
Thank you OSP, for being one of the few historical channels that talk about African nations beyond "slaves and colony". I hooe to see even more of these.
This is an excellent summary, and one I'd gladly give to my students as a very easily digestible overview. Great stuff! More African History please! Your channel is a wonderful resource to provide additional resources to university students who are beginning to learn the complex and rich history of an incredible continent.
Just to give some facts
Have our own calander
Our own alphabet
Our own numerical system
Coffee originated in Ethiopia
The green yellow red flag most Africans and rasteferians adopted is from Ethiopia as a sense of independence
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Mussolini: hippity hoppity, your country is now my property
Ethiopia: /ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?/
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Overly Sarcastic Productions 😂😂😂
Hale Sallasi: *tips over CV 33s* "Nope."
Don't you mean ᴉuᴉlossnW?
@@OverlySarcasticProductions Since I've enjoyed your remarks on the great leveler - how about a series of smaller plagues that have changed history. Or maybe the history of various merchant cities of Italy that time and again broke quarantines - bribes, false sanitary statements, etc. - and caused plague again and again to break out in Italy (Renaissance globalization).
Yess!!! Ethiopia has such a cool history, seeing this pop up in my notifications was awesome. Love your videos, OSP!
I was literally just in Ethiopia 3 weeks ago!! I learned a lot of this stuff while I was there! It’s really nice to get even more insight and knowledge and such an incredible place! The people are so warm and friendly and their food is absolutely incredible!!
2:12 it's night, I'm wearing headphones, that knock always gets me
There's a great Ethiopian place in Boston near the Orange Line Mass ave stop, and I definitely recommend getting the peanut tea with your meal. Blue wasn't lying, that food is amazing.
Serious: Well done. Super comprehensive and awesome research.
Less Serious: “The ancient kingdom of D’MT” *Joe Rogan has entered the chat*
Mythos & Logos - World Mythology and Religions Lmao it’s pronounced as Da’amat I don’t know why they spell it as D’mt
@@Agent-E Probably because it's a semitic language and the script they used only wrote consonants. Which means that we don't know what the vowels were. We fill in two or three /a/ so we can pronounce it, but it might just as well have been any other combination of /a/, /ɑ/, /e/, /ɛ/, /i/, /o/, /u/ and /ə/ (except multiple /ə/ in adjacent syllables, probably).
Mythos & Logos - World Mythology and Religions D’MT kingdom was actually a neighbor of the Kush kingdom :)
D'amit! :P
@@MushVPeets Sorry to disappoint you, but there must be a vowel after the first consonant (three consonants in a row, or ending with two consonants, also doesn't work, but that doesn't apply here). 😉
Da'mit might work though. ;-P
OSP, if ever in North Carolina, bring the ingredients, I'll make you all an Ethiopian Dinner. I learned to cook the stuff when I was living there back in 2007.
How was your time there ? I hope you enjoyed it
I'm sponsoring an Ethiopian child through Compassion, and it's really nice to know that kind of history, especially the history of christianity in Ethiopia. Thanks so much!
How you are sponsoring him?
@@karolissavickis10 through compassion
Now more
Muslim than crsitiyan
@@munasumeya9148 Yeah, it's so sad
finally ive been waiting for this for so long hardly anyone talks about my peoples history
As a somali, i have massive respect for ethiopia as they are our brothers, and they have a great history 🇸🇴❤🇪🇹🦁
We love our Somali brothers too. ❤
When your spaghetti is so weak that you can't even conquer Ethiopia
Tiny meatballs.
I don’t know why the Italian government decided to arm all its troops with over cooked spaghetti instead of guns for that particular campaign. Truly, it was the greatest miscalculation in military history.
The second time they succeded.
@@Quintusblake indeed
@@Quintusblake maybe food for on the way?
ᵗʰᵉʸ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵍᵒᵗ ᵉᵗʰᵉᵒᵖᶦᵃ
ᵗʰᵉʸ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵍᵒᵗ ᵗʰᵃᶦˡᵃⁿᵈ
@@jacobgorokhovsky4677
How do you do that?
Scramble for Africa map: This map is cursed
Holy Roman Empire map: Hold my kingdoms, principalities aand electorates
not cursed
its just more metro line map then states map
Don’t forget Bishoprics and Abbeys
i had a tutor in high school who was an ethiopian immigrant. she was so enthusiastic about her country's history it was infectious. happy to see the enthusiasm is there in this video too.
Half Ethiopian half Jewish loved your video already did my homework
This is super interesting. I've had a few exchange students at my school from Ethiopia. I graduated high school in 2013. One of them said he had a direct line to Menelik II. As a person who finds history a great nap time I had no idea who that was or if they were really as important as they touted. >.>; Also. Thanks for your videos. They help me catch up on the history that i slept through >.>; and it's totally worth it to hear about it all. Especially from someone who is actually excited to talk about it.
@@Joel-zc3xl That isn't true, he is a descendent of Sahle Selassie, who in turn was descended from the main Solomonic branch. If the guy he went to school with isn't lying then he really is royalty. I myself am related to Tewodros II' s father, Hailegiyorgis. That would buy technicality to make me related to the Solomonic dynasty but I haven't done enough research on it yet, as Tewodros's father had unascertainable claims to Emperor Fasiledes's offspring.
@@sallamt.amhara my biggest wish was to be blood line of either tewodros or belay zeleke , u r lucky
@@m_k_i_t7227 amesegenishaleu / thank you
@@Joel-zc3xl stop dimishing our history bozo
Damn Ethiopia did well. Those Churches sound amazing! Engineering marvels.
Poor ethiopia one country with rich history always forgotten
It has the misfortune of being stuck on an absolute crapsack of a continent. No one's noticing the diamond while it's buried beneath a latrine.
Poorest country in world that some how always end up killing wealthy 🧐 nation in war. 🤷♂️
Somalia next? Proto Somalian City states we’re part of the Info Greco-Roman trade route.
They were the first to acceptislam in Africa and have the oldest mosque outside of Saudi.
All the Sultanates
Traded with countries as far as China and Persia
Only African nation to defeat a European nation both on land and sea. (Portuguese)
The darwiish resistance against colonialism.
How Italy struggled to keep controll of South Somalia.
Somalia’s independence.
Somalia’s socialist revolution. Somalia’s call for pan africanism.
Cold War. War with Ethiopia.
Fall of Somalia.
Anarchy, Radical islamism, corrupt government.
Just a suggestion for topics to talk about.
P.s I loved the Ethiopia video.
Being of Irish descent I can totally relate to Ethiopia, given the remarkable similarities in the histories of these 2 nations... with the possible exception of everything that happened.
As someone who has lived there for over 2 years, thanks for making this take on Ethiopia's history.
Being of European descent, I've always being pretty Eurocentric in my history interests, but I've always being interested in Ethiopian history, so thank you so much for this video!
Uhh, eurocentrist in your history interest? Your pfp says otherwise...
@@budakbaongsiah That's an old profile picture that I haven't changed cause I'm too lazy, and it has little to do with history, moreso that it used to be my favourite game, and I don't know why this matters anyway?
@@alexbattaglia8297
No, it doesn't matter. Just an interesting thing.
@@budakbaongsiah ok?
@@alexbattaglia8297 eurocentric or westeurocentric? I mean what can you tell me about the Danubian Principalities,Albania,the Golden Horde,the Ottomans,Polis Lithuania or Scandinavia?
I'm very glad this video was made; Ethiopian history is my favorite across the world; it's a very unique region of the world and is extremely old and complex, despite being criminally understudied.
Also they gave us coffee and humans to drink it. You know, the important things.
It should be noted that although the legitimacy of specifically Solomon and the Queen of Sheba referred to in the bible having a son who became emperor of Ethiopia is very debatable (and is probably a way to make their christianity seem purer claiming that they were Jewish up until Christianity was a thing, then they were Christian, since most Christians would agree that a Jew in the times before Christianity would probably go to heaven, or at least be the modt likely one to do so), sheba was a very real kingdom in Southern Yemen, which is where the Axumites almost certainly came from. So that connection is very real, whether or not that specific ruler of that specific kingdom in Yemen had a kid who ruled Ethiopia, the rulers of Ethiopia at one point did start off coming from Yemen.
For anyone watching the video now, can I just mention the bread at the end is actually some of the best stuff I've ever eaten! And it's gluten free if you or your friends are stuck living with Celiac's (or at least the stuff I ate was)