Ethiopiaball/History

==Early History==
Ethiopia was born as a 4ball but then those 4balls moved to Syria and Iraq to make farms instead of being the nomadic hunting and gathering people. Then some 8balls had settled into the territory as a mini-empire to civilize themselves into tribes until the king of Solomon came and converted the Queen of Sheba into Judaism. Then some Semitic speaking 2balls came and settled near its clay. Ethiopia, as well as all the other horned African countries, is a part of the Afro-Asiatic family.
Some of the oldest evidence for modern caveballs are found in its clay which is widely considered the region from which caveballs set out for the Middle East and points beyond. Ethiopiaball likes to say to everyone that it is "the beginning of everything".
The Ethiopian Monarchy and empires started when the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon had children and descended the Ethiopian Empire from there. From 100AD to 1974AD, from the same monarch family genetically related to them.
It was a monarchy for most of its history. During the first centuries of the Common Era, the Kingdom of Aksumball (c.100-c.940) maintained a unified civilization in the region and is an early site of Christianity and also became the first African Jewish kingdom.
== The Aksum Kingdom ==
 Kingdom of Aksumball made Ancient Egyptball (now known as Egyptball and Kushball (now known modernly as Sudanball) irrelevant and started a new century of religious movements and becoming a glorious Christan African empire. Aksum had annexed Kushball and Ancient Egyptball became part of Ancient Romeball and eventually Coptball. Askum also took an Asian kingdom Himyarite Kingdomball (which is now known as Yemenball). It and Solomon lead Ethiopiaball to be part of the Afro-Asian family.
The Kingdom of Aksum had a rich trading system and was the richest ancient African country during its time period compared to current-day poverty in Ethiopia. It was trading with many countries such as the Byzantine Empire, China, Japan, North America, Egypt, Ghana, the Arab countries, and so on. Ethiopia's rich resources of water and coffee had led to a revolution of drinks of energy which is famous today. It was also known that the kingdom of Axum had accepted the Islamic Prohte`s saw of Islam refuges from Mecca. Muslims were very appreciative, and the town of Harari is one of the holiest sights of Islam. Many Ethiopians converted to the religion of Islam afterward.
The Kingdom of Aksum was well known for making a tall stone obelix which is now known as a historic site used for early orthodox christianitý statues or religious works of art. During the Italian invasion they tried to recreate or re-assemble the historic sight. The United Nations had stooped the fascists and tried to restore the ruins and finished around the time of 2007.
== The Zagwe Dynasty ==
 Kingdom of Aksumball came to an end when a noble named Mara Takla Haymanot overthrew the successors of Yodit and married the daughter of the last king of Aksum. This would provide him with the legitimacy to rule Ethiopia and form Zagweball which lasted from the 12th and thirteenth centuries. During the dynasty's presence. The Lalibela church which was handmade underground religious citings were built and had unfortunate persecution towards the Ethiopians who are currently Jews in which they made a kingdom called Beta Israelcube in order to protect themselves from the persecution of the Christians. They lasted until 1627 when Abyssiniaball annexed it.
Zagwe was also well known for uplifting the Coptic Orthodox Christian religion's holy sights. Some Muslims lived in Ethiopia in this time period, but there were not a lot.
The Zagwe dynasty was overthrown by the Solomonic dynasty that started Abyssiniaball. The first Emperor of the Solomonic dynasty claimed to have been a descendant of Kingdom of Aksumball, ergo it was considered a continuation of such and Kingdom of Aksumball is sometimes referred to as part of the Solomonic dynasty. It, as Ethiopian Empireball became known to the world as Abyssiniaball from the 1200s onwards.
== The Imperial Days ==
 Adal Sultanateball (now known as present-day Harariball and Djiboutiball) had a war with Abyssinia within territory disputes in the 16th century. Abyssinia resisted the invasions with the help of Kingdom of Portugalball, it got to keep Afarball while Adal gets to keep the rest of its territories and gave Harar Sultanateball independence, admitting defeat for Abyssinia. When Abyssinia was in its expansionist phase, it annexed the Harar Sultanateball. The masters of this invasion were the mind of the Ottoman Empireball whose goal was to make Abyssinia a Muslim state.
When Abyssiniaball was finally at peace away from the kebab war, it had to deal with its own problems. Ethiopia was at the time a feudal society, where powerful princes, warlords, and regional chiefs would fight each other for supremacy, this period was known as Zemene Mesafint (the "era of the lords"), where the dynasty and emperor lacked the power of taking central authority and couldn't do much to stop those people from tearing the country apart, since they didn't have an army of their own.
The period is sometimes referred also to as the Yejju dynasty, as the Yejjus who were Oromoballs wielded the most power by serving as regents. Then, in the 1850s, Abyssiniaball got a new Emperor named Tewodros II, and he turned out to be a very important person in Ethiopian history, known for establishing the foundation for a united Ethiopia, which later rulers took inspiration from.
Even though Tewodros established diplomatic relations with European countryballs and started a period of relative modernization, UKball considered him to be hostile to their regional interests as he had "plans" to expand toward Egypt and Sudan, where the British had their own interests. Hostilities grew when UKball refused to answer his trade proposals, so Abyssiniaball imprisoned missionary-craftsmen and demanded them to teach Ethiopians how to make modern weapons. This let UKball infuriated as they couldn't tolerate an African countryball producing modern weapons, they refused all bargain proposals and launched a military campaign against Ethiopia and Tewodros.
The troops of Tewodros fought bravely but succumbed in the end, he committed suicide out of shame after UKball captured his fortress. UKball eventually left Ethiopia in chaos after one year, dismantling the union brought by the previous government, now many people were fighting for the throne following the power vacuum. But before they withdrew, the British made some military agreements with lords from Tigrayball, and thanks to that, Yohannes IV sieged power in 1871, three years after the British left Ethiopia. As was expected, Yohannes was less hostile toward UKball compared to his predecessor. During his rule, the army saw some modernization out of cooperation under the British terms.
Yohannes's rule was controversial, he reestablished good relations with the elites and gave more regional autonomy to them. Among his great deeds, the most important one was the victory in the war against the Khedivate of Egyptball, a vassal state of the Ottoman Empireball, where they occupied Ethiopian territory on the north and the Red Sea coast. The victory was very important to Ethiopian military history as it proved the country was prepared to defend its independence and interests. However, Yohannes ended up later killed in battle against Mahdist Sudanball.
Negus Menelik of Shewa didn't allow the son of Yohannes to take the throne after his death. This led to a huge debate among the Ethiopian nobility that in the end recognized Menelik as the new Emperor. Menelik was a sympathizer of the deceased Emperor Tewodros, he aimed to follow his legacy in opposition to that of Yohannes, who was his long-time rival. It was in his period that Abyssiniaball was fully centralized, and the numerous clan wars that had been devastating the country and making it unstable were ended. He also expanded to the lands which nowadays correspond to the modern Ethiopian borders, such as Eritreaball and previously Somali speaking territories, such as current-day Oromiaball, Dervish Stateball and Eritreaball.
During the scramble of Africa, the Italian colonial empire started to expand toward Eritreaball, which used to be Ethiopia's territory. Abyssinia was at first fine with their peace treaty of taking Eritrea as their own, but the translation between the Amharic peace treaty and the Italian one was different. The Italians believed they would take all of Ethiopia as their puppet coffee state that would not be allowed to trade with anyone else other than Italy. Abyssinia did not like this which leads to the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
During his rule Menelik had defended a friendship with the Russian Empireball instead of with } UKball, shifting away from Yohannes previous pro-British foreign policy. He emphasized the Orthodox Christian links between the two countries, Russia then helped him during the First Italo-Ethiopian War, giving strong weapons, soldiers, and supplies to support Ethiopia's independence.
Emiye Menelik is very respected by the countryballs of Africa because he defended Ethiopia and defeated Italyball in their attempt to colonize it. After the First Italo-Ethiopian War Abyssinia started to have more calmer and diplomatic relationships towards UKball. In this period the infrastructure also became better and some progressive reforms were carried out that helped to consolidate the Ethiopian position as an internationally recognized independent nation, the first modern bank in Ethiopia was founded as well as a modern postal system, later the telephone, telegraph, motor car, electricity to Addis Ababa (that became the permanent capital) and modern plumbing were introduced.
But Emiye Menelik had also done bad things such as committing atrocities towards the Disrespected Ethnic groups during the time period when they attempted to revolt. Those ethnic groups (except for Somalis) were the target of slavery in the Arab slave trade. Menelik tried to definitely abolish slavery in Ethiopia, but seeing his efforts were not giving results, he eventually stopped trying to fiercely achieve such a goal.
===World War I===
Due to the many invasions using puppet states, Abyssinia decided to cut ties with Ottoman Empireball and backed the Allied powers, as they were worried that Ethiopians could end up oppressed in a scenario where the Central powers would end up victorious. This led Abyssinia to support Armeniaball on the genocide, because they were both Christian, and was irritated by the 3 invasions caused by its oppressor. Abyssinia even provided homes for escaped Armenians and took good care of them while they were getting persecuted in modern-day Turkey.
Abyssinia then invaded one of the Ottomans central power checkpoints, the Dervish Stateball and annexed and occuppied it untill 1915. It was helping USAball and UKball in the WW1, and ultimatly it helped lead to the death of Ottoman Empireball. Due to this, UKball started to become friends with Abyssinia because they had common goals. The results was the split of what is Dervish Stateball (now known as Somaliaball, Somalilandball and Djiboutiball or Greater Somalia) between UKball Abyssiniaball Franceball and Kingdom of Italyball.
It is important to remember that another internal power struggle happened in Ethiopia during this period, as designated emperor, Lij Iyasu was seen as a sympathizer of the Dervish Stateball struggle against the Europeans, as well having pro- Ottoman Empireball sentiments, which would put Ethiopia on the side of the Central power. The British made claims a major jihad against Ethiopia was being launched and so Lij Iyasu was accused of being secretly a Muslim conspiring against Ethiopia, this sparked panic among the nobility and the clergy. He was deposed by his aunt Zewditu in a coup supported by the Europeans obviously, that in return fully backed their war efforts in Somaliland.
Though Abyssinia stayed officially neutral during WW1, they were clearly pro-Allied powers as that culminated at the end of that one annoying Somali invader and blockage of trading. The split of Somalia led to civil wars and desperate attempts of Somaliaball during the Cold War and modern days to unite with Djiboutiball, Ogadenball and the Eastern coast of Kenyaball, to become Neo-Greater Somalia. Obviously, they didn't achieve it because of their own civil wars.
=== World War II ===
In 1935, Italyball came back and succeeded in "civilizing" it this time, but only for 6 years before Franceball and UKball helped Ethiopiaball kick it out in 1941. Meanwhile, during the Second Italo Ethiopian war which was an event that happened during World War II, Ethiopia used illegal Dum-dum bullets and mutilated captured Italian and Eritrean soldiers... in response, Italy used mustard gas against soldiers and civilians. When Halie Selassie pleaded the League of Nationsball to help protect them during the war, UKball and Franceball were scared of Italy, and therefore actually helped Italy win the war so they can side with ally powers.
Due to being located in Africa, racist ideologies, and of course being an axis power, genocide in 6 years of occupation, the Italian Holocaust happened. Lethal Gas attacking innocent civilians with inhuman weapons and committing genocide towards Beta Israelite citizens and the minority dark-skinned Nubians from the southwest. Italian Abyssiniaball had also been divided into many governorates.
Due to this cruelty New Zealandball, Sovietball, Chinaball, and Spainball USAball and Mexicoball had refused to recognize Italian East Africaball as a colony of Abyssinia. When Liberated the Beta isralites had fleed to Israelcube so they can practice Judaism freely without persecution or genocide. The Nubians are now continuing their local lives and traditions living among the Omo valley and Gambelaball.
The League of Nationsball could not prevent WW2 from happening, so some nations tried on their own to stop Italy's torture and fascism. In the East African Campaign and North African Campaign, the Italian garrison and Eritrean askari were no match for the British and Abregenoch (Ethiopian national resistance) that liberated the country, however, from 1941 to 1949 Italian resistance fighters continued fighting against allies in hopes of restoring Italian East Africaball. UNball then took Somalilandball whereas Abyssinia after been liberated was allowed to take Italian Eritreaball away from Fascist Italy. Kingdom of Libyaball gained their independence.
Only Italian Somalilandball Stayed as a Italian colony, but became a socialist-communist country named Somali Democratic Republicball. The success of not being colonized hat led Abyssina's colors to become the Pan-African colors, which subsequently, many newly born African countryballs adapted when the Europeans decided to decolonize. After WW2, Abyssinia was one of the founders of UNball so that the world can prevent WW3. Currently, Tedros is the WHO president, and he represents the country of Ethiopia.
=== The Cold War and the Spread of Rastafari ===
Abyssinia had helped South Koreaball during the Korean War..helping the Capitalist along with many other countries which were allies of USAball The debts in the war had lead South Korea to have positive insights of Ethiopia, unlike most African countries. (it helps Ethiopia for debt during the pandemic) 
When Jamaicaball had a drought for many decades until Emperor Haile Selassie visited and brought rain which is a miracle for the people of Jamaica which lead to the Jamaican people to believe that Selassie is a reincarnation of god or a prophet and made a religious and social movement called Rastafari. Rastafari gained famous for Pan-Africanism and Black nationalism in Jamaica. Currently, there are around 1 million people saying that Rastafari is their official religion.
After the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Italy brought cattle from Indiaball which had plenty of diseases so Ethiopia was running out of food as revenge. This leads to a huge famine and lead the people to lose hope in the monarchy of Abyssinia as Emperor Haile Selassie's theocratic rule reached its limit in the 70s with the height of popular dissatisfaction due to conditions of misery, repression, and corruption.
In the face of this conflict, the imperial government agreed with the civil government to carry out some progressive political reforms, but such reforms did not progress, conditions did not improve, dissatisfaction continued and chaos in the government continued to increase.
== The Communist Days ==
In 1974, Ethiopian Empireball announced the release of several state officials who had been convicted of corruption and other crimes. There were a series of demonstrations leading some low-ranking military personnel to found the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and Territorial Army (DERG), which had the initial objective of combating state corruption in the military. Dergball had arrested a lot of people close to the Emperor, which led to a proposed reform to institute a Constitutional Monarchy, but on September 12, Dergball organized the Ethiopian Revolution which deposed and arrested the Emperor, overthrew the civilian government, reorganized itself as the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC) and took over the government, appointing military Aman Andom as head of state and government.
Aman was in the minority in terms of supporters within Dergball, he went on to contradict central decisions on a number of issues, even trying to summon his supporters to overthrow Dergball, which led to his execution. The next president elected by Dergball was Tafari Benti, who announced the provisional government as officially Marxist-Leninist with the intention of establishing a socialist government.
He executed the Emperor Haile Selassie, initiated policies for the establishment of Local Surveillance Committees ( Soviets), destroyed the feudal economy, and started the collectivization of the rural and urban economy, expropriated the nobility and clergy, and started literacy and health programs, causing Dergball popularity to increase and the country to achieve great economic, social and political advances. Dergball however continued to further prolong the military regime, which led to conflicts between its internal factions that resulted in the "Ethiopian Red Terror", where many people were killed in street clashes.
In 1977, Mengistu Haile Mariam initiated treaties between Dergball and Soviet Unionball to establish a Soviet-style state, Tafari's opposition to those talks led to his execution and the consolidation of power by Mengistu that was elected as the new president. In the same year, Somali Democratic Republicball invaded Ethiopia to take over the disputed territory of Ogadeniaball, that they claimed Ethiopians had stolen in the past.
The war brought huge losses to all sides and ended in 1978 after Somaliaball suffered several defeats and Cubaball convinced that the war was of no use to the communist cause. While Somaliaball had been backed by most of the West just to be betrayed and bombed later to become the "government" we know today, Ethiopia gained the support of most of the Eastern Bloc and furthered its relations with it.
In 1978, Dergball tried to better develop the economy which was suffering from a terrible crisis caused by political conflicts, the war with Somalia that together with already existent famines and droughts turned out to be a massive problem, with the Ethiopian famine becoming news all over the world and used as propaganda against the government.
 Dergball however had no great results and had to receive international aid in face of the worsening conditions. While a lot of economic, military, and political aid was provided by Soviet Unionball, capitalist countries would also send some aid, the regime still managed to maintain a fiscal administration and national productivity that prevented them from falling into debt with other countries such as the USAball and UKball.
In the next years, the political situation didn't improve and the internal conflicts only got worse, being not just about socialist factions that used to compose the broad frames of Dergball fighting each other anymore. They became about separatist regions, local nationalists even receiving extended rights they have never seen before, disagreed over Dergball centralized model.
These separatist regions were Tigrayball, Oromiaball, Eritreaball, and Afarball. They would find a lot of support by the part of countries like the UKball, but still only Eritreaball gained independence in 1993. Due to Erireaballs independence. Ethiopia became landlocked. Ethiopia and Eritrea had many border-line issues until 2018.
In 1984 the single communist party began to be organized for the establishment of a socialist republic. The new communist constitution was popularly approved in 1987, ending the 13 years of the provisional government of Dergball and starting the brief communist government of PDR Ethiopiaball.
With the political change in the Soviet Unionball, the process of crisis and the overthrow of socialist regimes around the world began in the late 1980s, aggravating the internal situation in PDR Ethiopiaball that was already bad and ended up terrible. An ideal context of sabotage was created to dissolve the Ethiopian government. In 1989, a military coup organized by the newly formed Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and members of the government itself took place with the approval of the Soviets, the incident demonstrated that part of the government did not have a large ideological compromise. The coup dissolved the communist government and started the development of new capitalism in 1991, with Mengistu exiled to Zimbabweball, where he still lives today.
== Modern Day Ethiopia ==
After 1991, it was put into a transitional government until 1995 when the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopiaball was founded under the leadership of new president Meles Zenawi, which moved the country to so-called Ethnic federalism, which divided it on ethnic lines into nine regional states and two multiethnic administrations. Ethnic groups also in theory received the "right of secession", in theory just as the government continued to violently fight anyone that aimed to do so.
Unfortunately, Ethiopia continued starving and living in poverty for a long time but now started to recover from the bad times. Ethiopia is now one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. If Ethiopia continues to progress at its current rate it will be richer than the current Mexicoball by 2030.
On July 9, 2018, its Prime Minister and Eritreaball's president restored diplomatic relations by finalizing their border, officially ending the border conflict.
Around March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines had a recent airplane crash using the Boeing 737 Max plane in which the piolets were not properly trained compared to the regular Boeing 737. This caused some countries such as USAball to ban using this certain model of the plane which is not properly settled for flight. This led to 300+ deaths during the tragedy.
Currently, Ethiopia is in a feud with Egyptball against the Grand Renaissance Ethiopian dam, and has some territorial disputes in Tigrayball.