Countries: Ethiopia

Ethiopia is a country?located in the?Horn of Africa?region of?East Africa. It shares borders with?Eritrea?to the?north,?Djibouti?to the?northeast,?Somalia?to the?east,?Kenya?to the?south,?South Sudan?to the?west, and?Sudan?to the?northwest.

Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in Africa. In antiquity, the territory, together with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland, was part of the?Land of Punt.

According to the Egyptian First Dynasty rulers, Punt (“God’s Land”) was their ancestral homeland.

Imported pottery from Nubia, the Eritrean-Sudanese lowlands, the coast of southern Arabia and Eritrea, and raw materials from the regions of the southern Red Sea, such as obsidian flakes and fragments of ebony, show the broad extension of the Punt trade network in Middle Kingdom times.

King Za Besi Angabo is believed to be the founder of the Ag'azyan dynasty (c. 1370 B.C) and the father of Axumite Queen Makeda, but traditions vary.

In one version, Makeda was his wife. In another, she was his daughter who ascended to the throne after him.

The family's intended choice to rule Axum was Makeda's brother, Prince Nourad, but his early death led to her succession. Queen Makeda is said to have ruled for more than 50 years.

Menelik I was the son of King Solomon (r. 970-931 BC) of Israel?and Queen?Makeda.?

His father, King Solomon, was the?son and successor of?King David born to Bathsheba.?

The kingdom adopted the name "Ethiopia" during the reign of King?Ezana (r. 320-360 BC). After the conquest of?Kingdom of Cush?in 330, the Axumite territory reached its peak between the 5th and 6th centuries.

The Ethiopian Empire, historically known as?

Abyssinia or rather "ZeEtiyopia," was ruled by the Semitic Abyssinians composed mainly of the Amhara, Tigrayans and the Cushitic Agaw.

The Agaw formed and ruled during the Zagwe dynasty of Ethiopia.

The Agaw are later mentioned in an inscription of the fourth century?Ezana of Axum, known as the?Ezana Stone.

After the collapse of Aksum in 960, the?Zagwe dynasty?ruled the north-central parts of Ethiopia until being overthrown by?Yekuno Amlak?(r. 1270-1285).

King Lalibela (r. 1181–1221), was an Ethiopian king who commissioned 11 churches sculpted out of solid volcanic rock and often connected by long underground tunnels and trenches.

Following the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah, Genesis 10 presents a family tree in the form of a branched or segmented genealogy, tracing the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their descendants. Many of these names become future nations, tribes, lands and cities, known to us from elsewhere in the Bible and from extra-biblical sources: Accordingly, this chapter is referred to as the “Table of Nations.”

In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah.

From these eight people …. Noah, his sons and their wives …? the whole earth was populated.

The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

The first three sons of Ham are traditionally seen as the ancestors of African peoples.

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