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New Video: Ethiopia!
🕑 Added 2020-03-13 15:00:03 +0000 UTCWe've touched a little bit on Egyptian history and Africa in general, but this time, we're following the Nile south and zooming into the history of Ethiopia!
I'll say, this video was loaded with surprises. Any diligent Bill Wurtz viewer knows that "they didnt get ethiopia" — but beyond that, my knowledge was fairly limited. Imagine my surprise to find that Ethiopia is home to Sub-Saharan Africa's only indigenous Christian tradition, and that it got started while Rome was still mostly Pagan!
I am disappointed that I didn't get to go all that deep into any one part of Ethiopian history, but when so much of Ethiopia's historical coverage zeroes in on the Italian campaigns (and sometimes Aksum) I really wanted to give the full picture and especially cover the intermediary bits between the Zagwe dynasty and the Age of Princes, as well as Ethiopia's history after WWII.
If you liked this video, let me know what other slices of African history you'd like me to cover! Also, I'm curious to hear whether you'd rather I take more of these big zoomed out looks at the full histories of multiple civilizations, or whether I should narrow in on a couple cultures with multi-part series as I've been doing most recently with India and the Byzantine Empire.
Next up on History Summarized, we're heading a ways north, to (almost) round out our tour of the British Isles with a History of England! But before then, we're kicking off that shiny new series you've been voting to name. Head to the poll if you haven't already!
-B
Comments
LiannaBlanca
This is basically the logic behind my first comment: I want to know more African history (and others, but mostly African countries).
Kraken Artificer
Honestly I would like All The African History. Seriously, what I know is a) Ancient Egypt b) Roman Egypt c) Mansamusa (sp?) did his Hajj in 1337 d) Slave Trade e) Colonialism. 60% of anything I know about Africa is just Europeans invading it. Literally anything else about African history would be welcome.
Kraken Artificer
I, too, would like this. I really love the Byzantium & India series but... I kinda can't ever remember what happened, from video to video. The zoomed-out videos mean that I actually gain an understanding of the whole of the topic, which I just am not quite capable of putting together when it's spread out across so many videos. And _also_, I love learning about Ethiopia or the Aztecs or places that honestly are sweet af but entirely neglected in the education I got.
Damn... Ethiopians have a badass history! I’m disappointed I never learned any of this in class!
LiannaBlanca
I'd love to see more big zoomed out histories for the civilisations that Western school history lessons are... shall we say are less good at remembering to talk about at all. (Even in uni I never learned anything about (e.g.) Ethiopian history that I didn't specifically seek out.) I'd love to see zoomed in videos too, but maybe a ratio of one deep dive short vid/series for every two+ broad looks at neglected histories worldwide. Just my 2c!
