Book Notes

Chapter 7 Zara Yaqob tries to establish the coast of Eritrea (261) Zara Yaqob quarrels with the sultan of Egypt (261-3) Zara Yaqob send a mission to Europe (264-6) Chapter 8 Struggle for royal succession led to decline of the Christian kingdom (268) Major struggle for power often preceded the accession of a new monarch (276) Description of the organization of the royal court (269-275) Zara Yaqob's uprising (278) Zara Yaqob's was imprisoned by his brother after their father, the king, died (278) Zara Yaqob's becomes emperor (280) his candidacy to become an emperor (282) Plot to remove Zara Yaqob from power (284) Ethiopia ruled by a regent with a young emperor (286-294) Adal rebels again (294) Muslim fighters score decisive victory against Christian Ethiopia (296) "HALF a century of political strife among the warlords of the Christian kingdom provided the immediate, favourable background for the swift Muslim conquest under the remarkable leadership of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibra...

Title: The Ethiopian Army: From Victory to Collapse, 1977-1991 Author: Fantahun Ayele Publication date: 2014 Print length: 328 pages Introduction Comparison of Ethiopian revolution with French and Russian (3) Chapter 1 Under Tewodros, Ethiopia started producing mortars and cannons (5) How the Ethiopian army was modernized under Menelik and Haile Selassie (5-7) The British trained the Ethiopian army after the Italian liberation (7-8, 15-6) Ethiopia pulls away from England and becomes close the US (10) Ethiopia reorganizes military fearing a future Somalian attack (11) The imperial bodyguard attempts a coup (12) The imperial bodyguard always received special treatment. Troops that were sent to Korea were selected from the imperial bodyguard (12) Other forces of the military were jealous of the imperial bodyguard because of the special treatment they received (12) "the conflict between the bodyguard and other units did not annoy the emperor. After all, it was the emperor who presumab...