we will mention Ethiopian architecture and Urbanism since advanced cities and large population centers are one of the key hallmarks of civilization as classified by anthropologist. All historians agree that after the fall of Axum cities and urbanism disappeared from the Ethiopian highlands.
The Ethiopian Emperor lived in tent cities filled with pagan prostitutes (So much for being a Christian civilization). No Ethiopian town had a population of over 1,000 after the fall of Axum and even the incredibly charitable accounts of the Portuguese, who respected Ethiopia as a Christian Nation and supported it from complete subjugation by the neighboring (And far more advanced and civilized Adal Empire), mention that Ethiopia didn’t have any cities greater than 1,600 in population and it also had no walled cities. German chorar Job Ludolf mentions that Ethiopians were chocked when Europeans told them about having multiple cities and that the only city in Ethiopia was Aksum. Jerome Lobo and Manoeal de Almeida, who visited Ethiopia in 1624, note that other than the Emperor’s tent city no city in Ethiopia was a large as a city or even a town in European sense of the word and that the whole nation was comprised of small hamlets and villages. They also note that buildings made of stone are a rarity in Ethiopia and most are made from grass and thatch.
Ethiopians were brought up from savagery by the civilizing Portuguese who convinced the naked emperor families that he shouldn’t live in a mudhut in the words of famed Amhara historian Merid Wolde Aregay. The Portuguese were key in the building of Gondar.
Joao de Barros the Portuguese historian which has been called the modern Herodotus recorded that every monument that the Habeshis produced was made by foreign be they Coptic, Armenian, or Indian. He characterizes them as a barbarous and beastly race incapable of scientific advancement
However the benefits of Portuguese masonry did not reach other part of the Kingdom as Adwa the capital of Tigray was described by a European traveler as a city of a few mudhuts a far cry from the supposedly historical and magnificent city.
The Ethiopian Emperor lived in tent cities filled with pagan prostitutes (So much for being a Christian civilization). No Ethiopian town had a population of over 1,000 after the fall of Axum and even the incredibly charitable accounts of the Portuguese, who respected Ethiopia as a Christian Nation and supported it from complete subjugation by the neighboring (And far more advanced and civilized Adal Empire), mention that Ethiopia didn’t have any cities greater than 1,600 in population and it also had no walled cities. German chorar Job Ludolf mentions that Ethiopians were chocked when Europeans told them about having multiple cities and that the only city in Ethiopia was Aksum. Jerome Lobo and Manoeal de Almeida, who visited Ethiopia in 1624, note that other than the Emperor’s tent city no city in Ethiopia was a large as a city or even a town in European sense of the word and that the whole nation was comprised of small hamlets and villages. They also note that buildings made of stone are a rarity in Ethiopia and most are made from grass and thatch.
Ethiopians were brought up from savagery by the civilizing Portuguese who convinced the naked emperor families that he shouldn’t live in a mudhut in the words of famed Amhara historian Merid Wolde Aregay. The Portuguese were key in the building of Gondar.
Joao de Barros the Portuguese historian which has been called the modern Herodotus recorded that every monument that the Habeshis produced was made by foreign be they Coptic, Armenian, or Indian. He characterizes them as a barbarous and beastly race incapable of scientific advancement
However the benefits of Portuguese masonry did not reach other part of the Kingdom as Adwa the capital of Tigray was described by a European traveler as a city of a few mudhuts a far cry from the supposedly historical and magnificent city.
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