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 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

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

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)

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

Preach

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

LMFAOOO underrated comment

LMAOO

Lol 😂😂😂

Im dead 😂😂😂

@Stained Glass Window I am not Tedla Melaku I am his fan 😋

"MM MM MM He no practice the occupation!" said Mussolini as he angrily walks out of Ethiopia with his wife following behind him lol.

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 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.

Ah, that's what the quote's from! Had forgotten and didn't get the joke; thank you. ^^;

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.

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".

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*

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

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.

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

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.

better than living in current day lemme tell ya

It is OUR video

IKR i love this shit

Actually the other correction is that Ethiopia became Christian in 34 AD during the reign of Candace

I mean yall were enslaved at times by the Beja, Arabs, and ottomans but I get what you mean

⁠@@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

@@Avzigoyhbasilsikos that’s why I said at times. At the fall of Axum most of the population of Eritrea was enslaved the by the Beja. Then during the late 1800s, Turks and Arabs would enslave habesha boys

@@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

@@cheatcoddes I never said by a nation but at time habesha peoples did sporadically experience slave raids. Ottoman Turks and Muslims from Somali would often raid Ethiopian lands for slaves, some Nilotic and some Afro asiatic

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.

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

@@mattwardproductions7399 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.

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 :)

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

French people revolution for change love France history outside colonization. Speacily the industry development

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.

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!

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.

Dang, now I'm craving injera.

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.

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.

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'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.

Same

"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?

Christian Crisostomo Litterally 😂

Oh my messhia teach me more 😂

Love this

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

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 . . .

*deus ex portugal

Shouldn't it be "Portugal ex machina"?

Peus Ex Porchinal

Deus ex bacalhau

*RKO outta nowhere

Ethiopia: /ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?/ -B

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).

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)

Fragrant, sensual, delicious … good Ethiopian food is amazing!

👑💛🇪🇹❤

DEUS VULT ISRAEL Although sacking Bycantium will do

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 ❤️

How was your time there ? I hope you enjoyed it

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 ?

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.

ᵗʰᵉʸ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵍᵒᵗ ᵗʰᵃᶦˡᵃⁿᵈ

@@jacobgorokhovsky4677 How do you do that?

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 ,

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".

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

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?

not cursed its just more metro line map then states map

Don’t forget Bishoprics and Abbeys

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

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.

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.

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