History of Ethiopia

Ethiopia has claimed double-digit economic growth rates over the past decade and is pursuing an ambitious development agenda to become an industrialized nation and step away from the poverty that has dogged it for centuries. However, it still has its problems, especially in the ethnic diversity area. While Ethiopia is becoming a part of the modern global community, it is not attributed to either its internal diversity or outside influences. In fact, Ethiopia’s great diversity is causing increasing tension in the nation as it works to modernize itself and outside influences have not yet brought great change to the nation’s economy or politics. Ethiopia’s rich diversity is contributing to ethnic tensions as the nation embraces development and…

World Geography (H) -2nd 8 December 2015 Ethiopia Dossier Ethiopia’s Political History From AD 100, the city of Axum, north of Ethiopia, rose to power. The Aksumite kingdom became the most powerful in the region; their empire ran from the Nile River across the Red Sea. In the fourth century AD, a king named Ezana came to power and made Christianity the official religion. From AD 750, the rule of Aksum began to decrease as Arab traders spread across Africa, cutting off the city’s…

Abstract The country of Ethiopia has a unique background in that it is the only country on the continent of Africa with no history of colonization. Religion is an essential aspect in the lives of the people of this nation. Christianity and Islam are the two largest religions in the world and are both present in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is landlocked by Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya and Sudan. These the dominant religion within these country vary between Islam and Christianity and may have a relevant…

Over many years, Ethiopia, one of Africa’s first independent countries, has slowly began to take its place in modern civilization. Before this can be accomplished, Ethiopia must have a well structured government, main religions, a common language, a stable climate, and resources to keep its citizens healthy. The history of Ethiopia shows many famines, and droughts, an unsettling start for Africa’s first independent country. As well as being independent, Ethiopia is also the second most…

Ethiopia had a unique cultural development between the period in which the first trade relationship with the Pharaohs began and the Middle Ages, which is the result of various influences on this civilization that had already developed its own characteristics and had distinguished itself for a Christian confession that, over the centuries, will constitute a point of strength and cohesion for its people. Just think that today the Ethiopian Church is the most widespread of all the Eastern Orthodox…

The Land of 13 Months of Sunshine For many people around the world, mentioning Ethiopia brings to mind the images of famine, drought and poverty. Although those disasters were prevented years ago, they still haunt the country’s international image. It is true that Ethiopia has had its share of natural and manmade problems, but they do not truly define what Ethiopia is today. Ethiopia has always been a nation blessed with many unique natural, cultural, and historical wonders. There are…

to modern education came to a complete standstill, in short it was a negative period in the history of Ethiopian…

Ethiopia is something of an outlier in modern African history in that it was largely spared from European colonization in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some have ascribed this anomaly to the strength of the Ethiopian state compared to other African polities, the difficulty of the geography, and the ineptitude of the Italians as a colonial power, and while there is some element of truth to these statements, the crux of Ethiopia success lies elsewhere. What ultimately spared Ethiopia from…

Eritrean and both my parents are descendants of the Tigrinya tribe. Due to the recent events and tragedies happening amongst the Horn of Africa especially within Ethiopia and Somalia, I have been more drawn to investigate the relationship between the East African ethnic groups and tribes. The Horn of Africa, which comprises of the countries Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, is filled with many people of different ethnic and tribal backgrounds. Within these groups, they share many…

fun, especially when you are in public. It is something that I hate looking back to because I was really hurt. I wish it never happened, but it did. I felt dejected at first, but after a while I snapped out of it. Let me tell you the one memory that involved literacy. The one time a man insulted me in a store because I did not speak my second language very well last year. First, let me tell you about my background. I was born here in Dallas, but my parents are from Ethiopia. My mother wanted my…