- Location
- Visiting BWBs.
Can't really think of why Ethiopia in this path doesn't just end up another Egypt in terms of British subjugation, esp considering how volatile things are.
Can't really think of why Ethiopia in this path doesn't just end up another Egypt in terms of British subjugation, esp considering how volatile things are.
It's probably the most likely route, given the examples we have of Zanzibar and Egypt as countries modernising with British help, though the flipside of that is you have Madagascar where the alliance just ended without British subjugation. And there were people in the British government who opposed firmer control being taken in both Egypt and Zanaibar, though it's difficult to read too much into that as the anti interventionists lost pretty much every internal debate re the UK in Africa.Can't really think of why Ethiopia in this path doesn't just end up another Egypt in terms of British subjugation, esp considering how volatile things are.
Indeedit is hard to overstate the extent to which the Fall of Khartoum overshadowed everything else
The standing of Ethiopia in the TL presented here raises the idea of East Africa from the Med to Mozambique being largely under the control of native, if nor local, entities from Egypt to Ethiopia to Zanzibar.
I'd have thought between that and the Solomonid dynasty, they would have gone extra hard for Queen of Sheba.*Victorian Race 'Scientists'*: Clear proof that Ethiopia is one of the lost tribes of Israel.