Ethiopian Noblemen lived in huts

This is the house of Raas Alula the highest Tigrayan noblemen in the empire and arguably the greatest general in Ethiopian history.

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He was also illiterate as well as emperor menelik
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Their lord's and generals and even emperors were illiterate and they were described as a civilisation without cities after the fall of Axum their greatest urban center was mud huts around a rock. Meanwhile good amount of somalis were literate and could read Arabic and far wadaad/ somali in Arabic script.
 

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