The Czech Republic, formerly known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bounded by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the ...

Ethiopia 1868, Tewodros II is dead... Paving the way for Emperor Yohannes IV, and Menelik II. Who will change the way European powers view Africa forever. Menelik will go on to use political ...

In the second quarter of the fourth century, the original Ethiopian kingdom—the Aksumite Empire—became the second nation to adopt Christianity (after Armenia); its church, we learn ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...

The Ethiopian Empire had been in decline and fragmented in the 19th century, but Emperor Menelik changed its fortunes and by 1896 the Ethiopians were strong enough to inflict a crushing defeat on ...