Five years after installing the native Christian viceroy, one of his own aksumite generals, killed the viceroy and declared himself Kingdom him yar this general term King abre have him yar is mentioned in the Quran for his failed invasion of Mecca. In the year, 570, the rise of the Arab Empire would signal the decline and eventual demise of both of these kingdoms XM was completely cut off from any contact with the Christian Roman Empire and the vast revenues generated from Roman trade. The Kingdom of Aksum at a slow decline and began to contract back into the Highlands, the kingdom of alodia formed on its northern border and converted to Coptic Christianity and spoken Nubian dialect. In contrast to ask him Semitic dialect and script uses the days of diamohd in the ninth century BC, according to Ethiopian tradition around the year 1000, a female pagan warlord overthrew the kingdom of Aksum laying waste to the land, burning ancient churches to the ground and hunting down all members of the royal family of Aksum. The last of her dynasty which ruled over a much diminished kingdom was overthrown by Maya takla heimer not in 1137, establishing the Segway dynasty, although some scholars believe this dynasty was established earlier, the most famous ruler of segway dynasty was Gabrielle lalibela, who constructed 11 churches carved straight from a single piece of stone and attempted to construct a new Jerusalem as his new capital in response to the capture of the old Jerusalem, by the Muslims in 1187. Despite the piousness of the Segway, they had one thing working against them in the eyes of many of their subjects. they did not claimed direct descent from the biblical King Solomon, and around the year 1270, they were overthrown by a dynasty that did claim Solomonic descent. This Solomonic line of Kings ruled Ethiopia for more than 700 years with a brief interruption during the 14 year Abyssinian adult war in which the adult Felton that was able to end next Ethiopian episode India with ultimate help, only to be beaten back to their original borders by the Ethiopians with Portuguese assistance, the age of princes was a period in Ethiopian history from 1769 till 1855, when the country was de facto divided within itself into several regions with no effective central authority. It was a period which the Emperor's from the Solomonic dynasty, were reduced a little more than figureheads combined to the capital city of gondar, and local warlords fought each other for supremacy. This came to an end with the reign of T wildrose the second who re established his dynasties authority over the nation. However, this respect was short lived. And he would commit suicide. Instead of being taken prisoner by a British expedition. The British would sack the Ethiopian capital and carry the Solomonic dynasties crowns and treasure they had accumulated over the centuries, back to Britain Ethiopia's troubles were not over. And in 1874. The Ottoman baptismal Pasha of Egypt invaded Ethiopia with a goal of creating an empire that would include the entire length of the Nile River. His sizable army included a large number of recruited American and European officers, the Ethiopians had been working hard on organising and modernising their military since our experience against the British, and were able to utterly defeat the Egyptians into decisive battles, the Ethiopian Emperor yohannes would die in battle against the Sudanese raiding force, 13, years after defeating the Egyptians. His successor metal like the second would expand the Ethiopian Empire and defeat a full scale Italian invasion. The technologically superior Italians were decisively defeated in a bloody war that they expected to be a casual affair. 40 years later, masterminded by the Italian journalist term dictator Benito Mussolini Italians invaded again. This time sending the overwhelming force of approximately half a million men 600 aircraft in a undertakes. Despite this, The war was still a long and bloody affair. The Italians gained little from the annexation and committed widespread atrocities against the Ethiopian population, which they never fully managed to control Ethiopian Emperor Haley's Elise, he returned to Ethiopia from exile in England, to help rally the resistance. The British began the Roman invasion in January 1941, with the help of Ethiopian freedom fighters, the last of the organised Italian resistance in Italian East Africa surrendered in 1941, ending the Italian rule. The Solomonic monarchy was fully restored after the war. In the decades that followed Haile Selassie would begin to slowly implement democratic reforms in the nation, however many blamed his grasp on power for the slow pace of modernization. During the Cold War, so he received the backing from the United States, and when widespread drought and famine hit the nation in 1974, the agent monarch was overthrown by a socialist faction in the military, they viewed selecione as an agent of the corrupt capitalist West and united with Eritrea forming a larger chaotic state that was plagued by infighting and disastrously planned and implemented socialist policies. Eventually, men just to Haley Moran brought an end to the more than decade long power struggle and attempted the creation of a state, following the Soviet model famines and genocide included in 1991 as rebels closed in on the capital of Addis Ababa, he fled and was granted asylum in Zimbabwe, as an official guest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, where he still resides today at the age of 80, despite calls for his extradition. This was followed by a transitional government in Ethiopia, which drafted a new constitution allowing any of the nation's ethnic regions to secede if they ever wanted to Eritrea did so right away. And the remainder is the modern nation state of Ethiopia. This has been a meatiest huge thanks to all my awesome patrons over on Patreon who helped me with his channels expenses and my fantastic subscribers. if you're new to this channel