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Period: 700 BCE to 100 BCE
Rise of Aksum and Trade with Arabia
Aksum was a major trading power
There was trade with Arabs -
Period: 700 BCE to
Religious Tensions
Ethiopia has Coptic church
Muslim neighbors
Causes tension and conflicts -
1300
Amda Siyon
King
Expanded Ethiopia a lot -
Period: 1400 to 1500
Age of Princes and Feudal Ethiopia
Happend -
Period: 1500 to
European Colonization of Africa
They did it -
Period: 1580 to
African Slave Trade
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Berlin Conference
European Powers met and divided up Africa
Europeans wanted resources from Africa
They were able to defeat natives through increased Tech -
Italian Invasion: Battle of Adowa
Ethiopians beat Italy
One of the only country to no be colonized -
2nd Invasion
Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia again
Mussolini wanted to invade
Selassie, the leader of Ethiopia exiled
Ethiopia appealed to League of Nations
They do nothing
Italy used planes preemptive strikes and poison gas -
Period: to
Italian Occupation
Italy built up infrastructure in Ethiopia
There was a risistance -
Ethiopian Liberation
UK liberates them
Italy surrenders
Hale Selassie becomes Emperor again -
Period: to
Ethiopian Economy Early Development
Coffee
Eritrea gave more income -
Federation With Eretrea
Emperor Selassie wants Eritrea
Pulls strings at UN
UN says that Eritrea cannot support itself
They become one -
Ethiopian Democratic Reform
Revised Constitution
More Democracy
Parliament
Human Rights -
Ethiopian Attempted Coup 1
People want imperialism gone so country can go on
Failed -
Period: to
Ethiopian Immigration
Happend due to Push and Pull factors
Push: political instability war famine lack of oppertunities
Pull: immigrant community stability education/Howard University jobs -
Period: to
Conflict with Eritrea and Somolia
Happend
Border disputes -
Period: to
Mengistu Mariam
Takes power after coup
Leader
Committed war crimes -
Ethiopian Coup 2
Overthrew monarchy
PMAC and Derg
PMAC: Provisional Military Administrative Council
PMAC is just military dictatorship
Derg is Marxism
Derg purges monarchy -
Declaration of Socialism in Ethiopia
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Bloody Sturday
Execution of Leaders
60 Executed -
Land Reform
Created Nationalization
Throughout 1970s
The government got all the land -
White Terror
Against Derg
Killings -
Red Terror
Against well educated
Marxist purge -
Somalia War with Ethiopia
USSR label Somalia as aggressor during war
Supply arms to Ethiopia
Sends over Cuban fighters
US ignores it
Over border disputes -
Refugee Act
Lifted quotas
Aided immigration -
Famine in 80s
Climaxed in 1984
No water
1/6 were at risk of starvation
no aid
Caused resettlement -
Period: to
Famine
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Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Established after war with Eritrea ends
create new constitution
Implemented censorship, elections, and land ownership -
EPRDF
Ethiopians Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front
Party
Take power
Cause Economic growth, so they are popular -
Period: to
Tensions with Eritrea and Somolia
Still exist
Troops withdrew in 2009
They keep on fighting -
1995 election
ethnic tensions cause boycott -
2005 election
violence
3000 people arrested