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Halle Berry in the 1995 film Solomon & Sheba ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹
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Kingdom of Abyssinia
The Kingdom of Abyssinia was founded in the 13th century CE and, transforming itself into the Ethiopian Empire via a series of military conquests, lasted until the 20th century CE. It was established by the kings of the Solomonid dynasty who, claiming descent from no less a figure than the Bible's King Solomon, would rule in an unbroken line throughout the state's long history. A Christian kingdom which spread the faith via military conquest and the establishment of churches and monasteries, its greatest threat came from the Muslim trading states of East Africa and southern Arabia and the migration of the Oromo people from the south. The combination of its rich Christian heritage, the cult of its emperors, and the geographical obstacles presented to invaders meant that the Ethiopian Empire would be one of only two African states never to be formally colonised by a European power.
Origins: Axum
The Ethiopian Highlands, with their reliable annual monsoon rainfall and fertile soil, had been successfully inhabited since the Stone Age. Agriculture and trade with Egypt, southern Arabia, and other African peoples ensured the rise of the powerful kingdom of Axum (also Aksum), which was founded in the 1st century CE. Flourishing from the 3rd to 6th century CE, and then surviving as a much smaller political entity into the 8th century CE, the Kingdom of Axum was the first sub-Saharan African state to officially adopt Christianity, c. 350 CE. Axum also created its own script, Ge'ez, which is still in use in Ethiopia today.
Across this Christian kingdom, churches were built, monasteries founded, and translations made of the Bible. The most important church was at Axum, the Church of Maryam Tsion, which, according to later Ethiopian medieval texts, housed the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark, meant to contain the original stone tablets of the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses, is supposed to be still there, but as nobody is ever allowed to see it, confirmation of its existence is difficult to achieve. The most important monastery in the Axum kingdom was at Debre Damo, founded by the 5th-century CE Byzantine ascetic Saint Aregawi, one of the celebrated Nine Saints who worked to spread Christianity in the region by establishing monasteries. The success of these endeavours meant that Christianity would continue to be practised in Ethiopia right into the 21st century CE.
The kingdom of Axum went into decline from the late 6th century CE, perhaps due to overuse of agricultural land, the incursion of western Bedja herders, and the increased competition for the Red Sea trade networks from Arab Muslims. The heartland of the Axum state shifted southwards while the city of Axum fared better than its namesake kingdom and has never lost its religious significance. In the 8th century CE, the Axumite port of Adulis was destroyed and the kingdom lost control of regional trade to the Muslims. It was the end of the state but not the culture.
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Brian's skateboard.
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I'm not as unhinged as I could be and I want everyone to be grateful for that
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Bernard Tussaud, grandson of Swiss modeller Madame Tussaud, holds two wax heads, one of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and the other of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. September 1935.
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Midnight be like
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I genuinely don’t know what I would do without tchaga’s photos of Kylian 🫶🏽
#kylian mbappe#ethiopia#habesha#mbappe#mbappe imagine#mbappe psg#mbappe x reader#soccer#abyssinia#africa#world cup#france#football
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Shotel sword
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Source: Galawdewos - The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman (2015: 144) [Translated by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michal Kleiner]
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Aethiopian, Æthiopian, Æthiopic or Ethiopian Sea or Ocean (Latin: Æthiopicum Mare or Oceanus Æthiopicus; Arabic: البحر الأثيوبي) was the name given to the southern half of the Atlantic Ocean in classical geographical works. The name appeared in maps from ancient times up to the turn of the 19th century
The originally Greek term Okeanos Aithiopos is an old name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean. It is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia. The term Ethiopian Ocean appeared until the mid-19th century, for example on the map Accuratissima Totius Africae in Lucem Producta, engraved by Johann Baptist Homann and Frederick de Wit and published by Jacob von Sandrart in Nürnberg in 1702.
The name Aethiopian was related to the fact that, historically, Africa west and south of Egypt was known as Aethiopia. Nowadays the classical use of the term has become obsolete. Also the nation of Ethiopia, then known as Abyssinia, is located nowhere near its namesake body of water but in the opposite eastern end of Africa which is much closer to the Indian Ocean and its subset the Red Sea
#aethiopia#aethiopian#aethiopian ocean#ethiopian ocean#red sea#ethiopia#east africa#egypt#abyssinia#nurnberg#brazil#africa#african#afrakan#africans#kemetic dreams#african culture
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Post of Abyssinia, modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea
French vintage postcard
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Abyssinian shotel. 19th Century CE. Ethiopia.
Bonhams Auction.
Credit: https://www.bonhams.com/auction/20066/lot/3047/an-abyssinian-shotel/
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Destrier: You are supposed to bang your fist against mine.
Abyssinia: Why?
Destrier: I'm told it is a widely accepted gesture for mutual success
Valkyrie: I love it when you two impersonate normal people
#source: bones#i just assume these two are still hanging around the sanctuary for some reason#valkyrie is working on turning them into normal good humans#incorrect skulduggery pleasant quotes#incorrect quotes#skulduggery pleasant#valkyrie cain#abyssinia#destrier
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Italo-Abyssinian war, 1935 - 1936.
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How should I color the phase two covers?
Hi, yes, I'm the crazy person that finished (!!) all the phase one covers and now I'm moving on to bigger better the next things. Here's my thought process so far: Overall, I'm gonna do what I did with Phase One: I'll keep the characters the same, in the same spots. - I'll keep the big color splashes in the backgrounds. Imo that's what makes these six books scream "WE'RE PHASE TWO" and set them apart from Phase One, which had a ton of empty space (which I fixed more or less)
- I'll improve anatomy and make the lighting make more sense
- I'll do two versions, one with a whiteish canvas and one with a blackish canvas
But! I don't like how inconsistent the colors are. Two books are black and white, two are monochrome-ish, one is in full color and one is like... kinda colored???
So. We're gonna pick ONE style, either black and white, fully colored or monochrome, and run with it.
Here are really bad tracings (yeah yeah) of your options for three of my options: you're just gonna have to use your imagination for the rest, I believe in you
Note: You're getting the splash and color accents/lighting no matter which one you pick because again, that's what makes the phase two covers stand out- they're vividly one color
POLL OPTIONS (and my personal tier list)
A - Muted colored characters with a vivid color splash
B - Fully color/shade the characters, and have a vivid color splash background
C - Fully color/shade the characters, and have a muted, darker color splash background
D - Black and White characters, vivid color splash
E - Monochrome characters to match the color splash
F - Keep the colors as they are on the original covers. (This is what I did for phase one: I will still improve on lighting and stuff, but if the cover is in black and white, mine will be in black and white.) (why tho?) Yes, this was copy pasted from reddit I'm too lazy to type everything again
#skulduggery pleasant#skulduggery pleasant phase two#phase two#valkyrie cain#resurrection#midnight#bedlam#seasons of war#dead or alive#until the end#skeleton#art#omen darkly#abyssinia#nerfarian serpine#tanith low#sp covers#nic stylus
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Birthday boyy 💕
Happy birthday ml I have no words to explain how much you’ve changed my life. I seriously cant imagine life without you ❤️
#kylian mbappe#ethiopia#habesha#mbappe#mbappe imagine#mbappe psg#mbappe x reader#soccer#abyssinia#africa#world cup#football#france#birthday#birthday boy
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