Medieval African Explorers | African History, Ethiopian Empire, Medieval Africa, Prester John

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African History, Medieval Ethiopia, Prester John, Ethiopian History, Medieval Africa, African Kingdoms, Kongo, Ethiopian Empire, Lalibela, Crusades

[@JabzyJoe]

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[@demetrewilliams3429]

African never discover nothing Europe

[@johnmanno2052]

Always enjoy your videos, sir. A few comments I'd like to make: I've heard different theories about Prester John. You here talk about the Copts in Ethiopia being the inspiration for the myth, but I've also heard that the Nestorian Uighurs were the inspiration for it. Considering that before the Arab conquests a huge chunk of Asia and Africa was some species of Christianity or another, perhaps the myth is a vague memory of that far off time? Also, it's no surprise that there was intercourse between the Roman Pope and the Ethiopians, as the Ethiopians had a Pope before Rome did. The Coptic Pope pre dates that of Rome, and the Romans were aware of the "monophysite" church in Africa.

[@lif3andthings763]

@@demetrewilliams3429 what?

[@lif3andthings763]

You should do Ancient Nubia next.

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@@demetrewilliams3429 That sentence was a huge self-own

[@KCCOmug]

Gondar is located in Ethiopia. I find it amusing that they might seek Aargon in the west

[@asdfasdf-dd9lk]

There's an easter-egg in the game eu4 to do with this, it's pretty funny!

[@KCCOmug]

@@asdfasdf-dd9lk and you can defeat Saruhan! But only in the extended edition.

[@kalhistory4030]

The city where lalibela built his churches was called Roha at the time. It lies just north of Gondar. It's known as Lalibela after him now. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalibela

[@BVargas78]

@@kalhistory4030 Tolkien knew his ancient and medieval history very well, so I think he would have been aware of the medieval kingdoms of Ethiopia. Especially as a Christian too, there's something of a romantic quality of a beleaguered christian kingdom, surrounded and isolated in a sea of islamic realms. I do think it inspired some of the place names in his works. There could also be a link between the blue wizards, who went to the far east of middle earth (to help the eastern men vs Sauron) and the legend of Prester John.

[@tristanjohnson4159]

Gondor is closer to Mordor

[@WillmobilePlus]

THIS is the type of pre-scramble African history I been waiting to hear! The Congo section was especially fascinating.

[@ray_99]

I honestly didn’t notice the voice change from Jabzy to Hilbert at first

[@methyod]

I generally forget that they're separate people until reminded that they're not

[@danielforeroc]

It would also be interesting to know about the relations between the Russian Empire and the Ethiopian Empire during the 19th century.

[@dragonborn3609]

I know during the Italian Ethiopian war during 1895-1896 that Russia had sent weapons to Ethiopia due to the connections through the Orthodox church.

[@newshot3191]

@@dragonborn3609 it was still a trade.

[@dragonborn3609]

@@newshot3191 Still the Tzar politically supported Ethiopia plus there was a Russian volunteer unit with 50 Russian Cossacks in Ethiopia led by Nikolay Leontiev. And Russia had disliked that Italy which was a Roman Catholic nation would subjugate a nation of Orthodox Christians.

[@milanvitu3963]

a cosack force tryed in the 19th century to settle in djibouti to become naibors with Ethiopia

[@johnlewis3891]

Ethiopian-Russian relations began with the reign with Czar Peter the Great. I read an article on Jstor about it.

[@LuisAldamiz]

While Christian Abyssinia called itself "Ethiopia" since the 13th century, "Ethiopia" is a much older Greek term meaning Black Africa and it originally included all Africa south of the First Cataract, includin Nubia, Punt and anything else in the continent south of the Sahara. It's not that odd that for Europeans "Ethiopian" could mean any sort of Black African. More odd is that they confused them with Indians.

[@brookekp3736]

Actually the word ethiopia in Greek mean burnt face.

[@andysawyer647]

Because Indians are dark as well in the South

[@ikengaspirit3063]

They actually started using the term from around when Ezana reigned over Aksum so like later 400s

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@ikengaspirit3063 - Do we know that? Because I looked it up before writing, I actually thought Ethiopia was an even more modern name and that it was called "Abyssinia" earlier (I was wrong). In any case Ethiopia is a much older (and larger in meaning) word than Ethiopia-in-the-modern sense, much as Sudan is a lot older and larger than the Republic of Sudan.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@LuisAldamiz I got it from Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa by George Hatke which I read like half a decade ago so can't remember the Chapter exactly, just read the area about Ezana. He apparently started calling his realms Ethiopia after conquering/vassalizing Nubia, the Kingdom usually referred to as the Kingdom of Ethiopia by Mediterraneans before then while Axum was seen as nearer India, up to the middle ages by Europeans sometimes. Abyssinia is more medieval after the fall of Aksum in around 1000, used by Arabs but I don't know if it was a local or Arab word, but the locals call themselves Habasha.

[@plutofeldseinfeld8839]

This is to me - one of the best historical channels. You never fail to invoke this sense of wonder and awe. Going into one of the myriads of topics that are less oft discussed. Even as far as doing critical thinking, something quite exotic, but needed in the youtube-historian environment.

[@JabzyJoe]

Thanks so much man!

[@TrickiVicBB71]

I never thought about this till you talked about it. Cause our history books constantly talk about European exploration and colonization. As if no one else in the world explored

[@azopeopaz3059]

Since africa is humanity birthplace it logial that africa have explorer since withou it we would still all live in africa

[@YaBoiDREX]

@Danny Tallmage There is little difference

[@YaBoiDREX]

@Danny Tallmage except the areas were already discovered by the Natives. The Europeans just traveling to lands they thought were new. Only thing they discovered was that the lands had already been discovered by someone else.

[@YaBoiDREX]

@Danny Tallmage All of African history disproves that statement but you aren’t worth the time.

[@Yamcha291]

@@YaBoiDREX lol he deleted all his comments

[@chrunchy-burrito5373]

If anyone wants to know more about the legend of Prester John I recommend the book "The Realm of Prester John" by Robert Silverberg. It is an incredibly expansive account on the topic which thoroughly explains the origins and different forms the legend have taken. Through the book you also get a decent overview of Mongol, Ethiopian, and Nestorian history along with some of the crusades.

[@chrunchy-burrito5373]

@⚜Memento Pueri⚜ I'm sorry?

[@chrunchy-burrito5373]

@⚜Memento Pueri⚜ okay?

[@chrunchy-burrito5373]

@⚜Memento Pueri⚜ Alright then.

[@user-zh2yc9hk9b]

Oh thanks brother

[@TheRusty]

On the Malian westward voyage; there were apparently two. Abu Bakr II had heard stories of a great fresh river that bisected the sea, and so he sent out an expedition to find it. Apparently one crew came back, claiming they had indeed found the river, but had been beset by terrible storms and whirlpools. Abu Bakr II then took it on himself to lead a second expedition, laden with trade goods, to find who or what might live up this river that was in the ocean... Nobody ever returned. What strikes me as fascinating here is that... this is a pretty accurate description of the Amazon River. The flow of the river is so strong, and has so much water, that there's a freshwater current pluming into the Atlantic ocean for miles, even beyond sight of land. Thereby creating a "river in the sea." I don't think it's all that unlikely that once or twice fishermen or whoever had gotten swept off course and "found" this outflow, and managed to return with the story. Who knows, with better portage and naval technology, there could have bene Malian colonies on the coast of Brazil. Oh well.

[@tobilobaokorodudu9594]

This is amazing. Videos on African history are so few and far in between that anyone i come across gets my support, so here's a like and a comment for the algorithm.

[@YaBoiDREX]

Check out FromNothing’s channel it’s full of accurate african history.

[@Tu51ndBl4d3]

@@YaBoiDREX No, it's not.

[@tobilobaokorodudu9594]

@@Tu51ndBl4d3 its one of the few i actually watch and it really is

[@Game_Hero]

Beside Africa, are there other regions whose history you are interested in?

[@f1i273]

@@tobilobaokorodudu9594 watch hometeamhistory too

[@Artur_M.]

Fascinating topic! BTW since you briefly mentioned Black characters appearing in the Arthurian literature, there also is half-Black Feirefiz in _Parzival_ by Wolfram von Eschenbach, although his description, as having patches of both dark and light skin, shows that the greatest epic poet of medieval Germany had no idea how being biracial works. :)

[@Artur_M.]

@@JanusOrdinisFlammantisRosae Hmm... interesting hypothesis.

[@istoppedcaring6209]

or you know, the person in question may have had vitelago, don't make the mistake of thinking medieval europeans backwards, if you read one book on dates you wil immediatly realise that they did

[@fraelikkriil830]

@@istoppedcaring6209 in the story his condition is attributed to his being mixed, and there’s no reason to assume the story is based on a real person at all afaik

[@Tugela60]

Or, more likely, it was a mythical person.

[@SimonAshworthWood]

@@fraelikkriil830 could have been a mis-attribution of the cause of vitiligo. By the way, many black American people who talk about vitiligo seem unaware that socialist Cuba has developed a cure for vitiligo. If you get enough US people to vote for the US Green Party (instead of the pro-sanctions Democrats and Republicans), you’ll get a govt that doesn’t punish you for travelling to Cuba for health care.

[@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404]

Love it not something usually covered on the media/web nice to see the other point of view.

[@admirekashiri9879]

Very interesting seeing so many channels dive into African history a bit more.

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

Where are you from brother?

[@admirekashiri9879]

@@Zeyede_Seyum I'm from Zimbabwe, thank you for asking.

[@mediacare6744]

They've run out of stories.

[@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404]

@@mediacare6744 not if u read north africa history

[@joelGi]

yes it was non existent but this year we are getting more coverage

[@antebellumstage]

Really cool you touched upon Kongo, I have so many questions regarding that kingdoms history. Hope to see you pulling more content from that direction

[@charlesnegash]

"We who profess Christianity ought to be ashamed of ourselves, since the Ethiopians seem to surpass us in regard to the cult and observance of the religion." - Adamus Carolus to Damiiio de Góis, 28 October 1540

[@dontbetrippin4575]

Great quote

[@BILLCLINTONSREVENGE]

Just because you profess it doesnt mean your part of it..No real CHRISTIAN could give a rats butt what region or culture occupies whatever swamp, desert or metropolis.... our concerns arent based in this world..

[@ruthanneseven]

Very interesting! Thank you for your work!

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

*Thank you Jabzy*

[@aleksk318]

This is VERY interesting. Never heard of Africans traveling to Europe before the age of exploration.

[@mountainmamma1643]

That's kinda racist learn your black history 💅👏👏

[@paerek]

@@mountainmamma1643 How is that racist of him?

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@@dingustm617 dude... The person isn't race baiting and most likely isn't even black lmao that person is joking and trolling. Use some common sense and look at that comment lol it's not at all serious

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@@dingustm617 I'm sure that I'm older than you and I took that comment at face value... That's why I can see that it's obviously a joke. It wasn't only the emojis but simply what was said lmao Like, really, what makes anyone think that that person is African or would know African history when most don't even know indigenous American or Asian history either. It was an obvious joke. Most understood that.

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@@dingustm617 I went off the premise and deduced that the person was joking. You wrote an entire essay. Sensitive much?

[@joelGi]

Thank you for making this

[@SanTM]

Oh hello, there's that lamp again.... Not been able to find it anywhere. Great and informative video as ever!

[@VolcyThoughts]

Thank you for this! Africa’s footprint on world history is so ignored in the mainstream. It’s great to see some content on it. You should collab with HomeTeamHistory who does this as well

[@honourableI1]

What are some more contributions of Africa to the history of the world. Aside from Egypt.

[@makingmefeelbadproductions3798]

We wuz kangs

[@youngtonymontana7562]

@@makingmefeelbadproductions3798 you definitely get bullied at school lol

[@youngtonymontana7562]

@@honourableI1 Africa is part of the world dummy, everything that happened there is just as much of a ‘contribution’ as the happenings in Europe. Your opinion on their importance is subjective and unwarranted

[@honourableI1]

@@youngtonymontana7562 Nothing an Afrixan has done has ever benefitted me or my peoples lives. Quite the contrary. You're welcome for the internet, the English language & Electricity to mention a few of the modern luxuries you may enjoy from non Afrixans.

[@JaimeNyx15]

The Kingdom of Congo’s coat of arms was really cool. I’ll need to look up a breakdown of the symbolism.

[@allenbrady8083]

Thank you Jabzy. Thank you.

[@Jesse_Dawg]

The music for these videos is soooooo good. I always think of Jazby history when I hear it

[@djstubbain1]

Thank you for making your videos on pre-colonial Africa. Too little is known and taught about it in the mainstream

[@Game_Hero]

It feel so weird to hear the Ethiopia part considering one of my thesis was about the subject in college, it feels like seeing what you uncovered in your report read before your ears (the Ewostatians, Zara Yaqob etc.). It's a strange feeling. (If you want to know, it was about the texts Emperor Zara Yaqob wrote at the time and figuring the context and purpose behind them, giving a bigger picture of the moment which meant talking about the foreign policy of Ethiopia)

[@StrawHalo]

Thanks for this video!

[@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle]

Amazing video. Videos of channel helps linking so many little historical anecdotes together and interesting✨😎‼

[@dnifty1]

So historically "Ethiopia" is a term created by the Greeks to refer to dark skinned people from Africa and Asia. It did not represent a particular country in Africa. As the Greeks gave way to to the Romans in North Africa, Christianity took root in the Nile and parts of Northern Africa, bringing a lot of Africans into the sphere of early Christianity including some Sudanese kingdoms. These African Christians gave rise to some of the various legends of Ethiopian/Moorish saints in Medieval Europe such as St Maurice. Not only that, prior to the Romans adopting Christianity, they promoted Isis Worship across the Empire in Europe which was an African deity. Once the Arabs invaded North Africa, many of these Africans fled into Europe and helped spread Christianity there and man of them were around in Spain which was a very cosmopolitan place. And because of this historic African component in these Christian communities, you could still see them referred to as Ethiopians. In fact, some of the earliest Christian illuminated Manuscripts in Spain are very similar to those found in modern day Ethiopia and seem to suggest a common heritage. Examples of this are the Morgan Beatus/Beatus Pierpont and Beatus Liebana where many of the figures are shown wearing what looks like Afros. So all of this to say there is a long history of the presence of Africans or Ethiopians (burnt face) individuals in the European Christian tradition. Which between the 5th and 10th Century could have been talking of Sudanese Nubians from the Christan Kingdoms of Makuria and Alodia or Aksum. It was these Kingdoms who came into conflict with Saladin and eventually were sacked by the Muslims. As time went on and Christianity evolved into the Renaissance, the artists used the historic influence of North Africa, the Mediterranean and Turkey/Black Sea region in their artwork. Many of the costumes depicted are heavily influenced by Islamic fashion from these areas and you often see imitations of arabesque script in the paintings. And many of the holy saints and and Biblical figures are dressed in the costume of these regions and North Africa. And some of the costume of the Europeans themselves is also influenced by this as well along with the SIlk Road. The actual nation of Ethiopia came about in the 1200s after the fall of the Aksumite empire in the modern day Tigray Region. It was called the Ethiopian empire and the first emperor claimed to be a descendant of an ancient Aksumite king even though there was also an Ahmaric Solomonic dynasty claiming descent from the Queen of Sheba. They practiced a form of Coptic/Eastern Christianity which is basically Greek and Egyptian and based in Alexandria. Since Ethiopia at this time was far south of the Islamic lands of Egypt, they were seen as the last major Christian outpost in Africa and part of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. The previous Christian Kingdoms in Sudan were sacked in ancient times. Both the Ethiopian Empire and Askum along with the Nubian kingdoms before that all had significant trading networks in the Red Sea, Arabia and South Asia and were recorded by the Persians in the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (similar to the term Eritrea, basically horn of Africa/Red Sea). It as the Muslim Arabs who were cutting off this trade and there was an alliance between the Byzantines and Ethiopians as part of resisting Islamic expansion. These are the Ethiopians that are referred to in the council of Florence. Also note that the Ge'ez script of Ethiopia is related to the scripts of Armenia and Georgia which are also early Christian states.

[@rediettadesse2828]

Ethiopia is ethiopia bro , Greeks didn't name ethiopia, Ethiopians named the Greeks and it means ghosts in Europe ,😂😂😂 Racist peace of shits lol

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

Pretty good stuff.

[@eshadiva6600]

Thanks for the honesty.

[@ianashman7060]

This video's sick! Plus the music is super dope

[@9fh099]

Ethiopia is extremely big and German states were so small that it Ethiopia is the size of thousands of European countries at the time

[@dontbetrippin4575]

Kinda true countries closer to the equator are way bigger than they are shown on flat world maps

[@conallomahoney9311]

Population is a more important factor than size

[@waterproof4403]

Ethiopia... the cradle of humanity The land of runners ❤💚

[@christinahahn8485]

love your channel

[@matthewdackers5903]

Very interesting and insightful 🙂

[@deepwoodguy2]

Hilbert sent me here and said i had to subscribe to your channel OR you and Hilbert would do a video showing your FACES....now that is kinda scary...so i subbed..😎😎😎

[@JabzyJoe]

Good decision well made

[@imperator692]

Can you talk about medieval Somalia, it's a fascinating period of Somali history that gets largely ignored as the recent civil war takes all the attention

[@lt2672]

@@salmahersi4210 Exactly. They always b.s about our history so it's better if they leave it alone instead of lying like they usually do.

[@PakBallandSami]

love your videos

[@christopherharper9932]

Thanks so much!!

[@sneedle252]

"So you guys are Prester John, right?" "No." "Prester Jon..."

[@futureshocked]

There used to be a Tumblr account that would post images of Africans in Medieval art. I hope she's still around. She got absolutely hounded by racist trolls for saying exactly what's in this video.

[@magimon91834]

Great video

[@habtamuneftenya6002]

You definitely did your research 👍🏿

[@Yanzdorloph]

A video about the "Ethiopian" sultan of Morocco of the Merinid dynasty (known as the black sultan ) Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman as the last Moroccan Sultan to ever lead an expedition in the Iberian peninsula and last emperor (even for only 2years) to ever unify north Africa. he had a polar opposite brother who was white that revolted on his father and lost thus Abu al-hassan al habashi(al habashi means the ethiopians) as they called him became sultan.

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

Interesting, i will look it up.

[@waliddrissi8370]

His mother was Ethiopian so he was half Moroccan half Ethiopian

[@Eyammovie]

@@waliddrissi8370please if you know about him tell me more

[@waliddrissi8370]

@@Eyammovie his name is Abu al-hasan Ali Ibn Othman a sultan from the marinid dynasty of the Moroccan empire His father was the 10th sultan of the dynasty and his mother was Abyssinian And so He was called the black sultan or "sultan lkhal" in Moroccan and his older brother who had a European mother was called the white sultan (he lost his right for succession because he revolted on their father ) Abu Al Hasan was a strong emperor who conquered most of north Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and had a stronghold in Spain But he suffered a huge defeat in the battle of Rio Salado against the Castilians and the Portuguese and a revolt against him ended his rule in favor of his son, and he died in exile in the atlas mountains

[@Eyammovie]

@@waliddrissi8370 thank you very much!!!!!!brother

[@Simon-1965]

In the bible you can read of an Ethiopian eunuch, he was a high official, who was baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. It was written in Acts of the apostles 8.

[@Simon-1965]

@Kwaku Arhin I suggest you go back and read. It clearly states Ethiopian.

[@Simon-1965]

@Kwaku Arhin my friend, are you trying to tell me that the Holy Bible is wrong?

[@IllIl]

Super interesting!

[@ronbittel1367]

The Islamic conquest of North Africa effectively prevented communication and travel between Africans and Europeans. The European voyages of exploration were mostly about finding a way around this blockade. The crusades were also about trying to establish connections and trade that had been blocked by the Islamic conquests. The Ottoman Turks controlled the Mediterranean and prevented non-Islamic trade links.

[@kuroazrem5376]

Please mention more about Sa'id of Moghadishu.

[@JP-rf8rr]

Michael the deacon is borderline medieval/renaissance. Does he count?

[@isaacmuiruriimunza2091]

good stuff, I understand your topic was limited with the age of the European explorers, but exploration begun way before, only that again I agree with you that sources are scanty. The modern period of explorers is perhaps the most read and equally written but technically not the only one. Africans and Indians explored the world way before the Arabs and Europeans, I can share with you of our cultural legend of our origin from ancient near East through Ethiopia and finally to Mt. Kenya. Asante sana!

[@imperator708]

just found your channel and its an instant sub. really good vids, thank you!. welcome to my "turn adblock off for their content" list :D

[@yoseph3625]

Our history is great thanks🇪🇹🇪🇹🙏🙏

[@greatexpectations6577]

It is not that great. Don’t inflate your ego.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@greatexpectations6577 cope

[@yoseph3625]

@@greatexpectations6577 he has't explained the half😊.

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

@@greatexpectations6577 let me guess you're Zoomalien. RIP Somalia 1960-1991.

[@hassanabdikarimmohamed2505]

@@Zeyede_Seyum let me guess you are Aidstopian chewing kitfo raw meat while tryna steal the name of biblical Ethiopia (Sudan kingdom of Kush, known as cush and Ethiopia in the bible)

[@SamAronow]

Mustn't forget Iftikhar ad-Dawla, a Nubian who led the defense of Jerusalem in the First Crusade.

[@SegunSMBProd1999]

Fascinating to find out that mansa musa from the Mali empire went to the west and Central Africans. Interesting to find out Some West and East Africans were travelers for a long time wow.

[@dominokos]

What's that music you play in the background? I really like it.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Dang, youtube doesn’t like African history on the algorithm I guess.

[@peternaguib8125]

The monastery that you have mentioned in jureslem is owned by the Coptic Orthodox church of Egypt And as a mother church of the Ethiopian Orthodox church no. Ethiopian monk was turned away But recently some vanity has crawled into their hearts and trying to take it as their own shielded by the Israeli army

[@leulyewondwossen9045]

bro it was funded by the ethiopian royal family and it was owned by the ethiopian church copts didnt even own until 1820s when all the ethiopians in the church were killed by disease

[@_Painted]

@@mehabewnibiretu4636 You're being kind of weird here. Why can't you just share the church? If there isn't enough space, why not add a new, modern building to share along with the older church?

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

@@_Painted it's not easy to get a permission to rebuild the old ones let alone building a new one in Jerusalem. The Egyptians took over most of it when epidemic killed most of the monks, they even burned the Books.

[@danielabraham5901]

Here comes an Egyptian to spill fake news lol. Whenever, there is Ethiopian talk, here comes the devil lol

[@_Painted]

@@Zeyede_Seyum You Copts and Ethiopians should work together to lobby for the permissions for new construction rights then. If you brothers fight against each other for control of the old church, it would serve you right if the church burns down and is replaced by a mosque...

[@riserise5897]

Great show I enjoy but tell me where did you derive your information that the Portuguese have slaves when they came to Japan?

[@illeagle9560]

Nice Hilbert reference lol

[@powasjington4262]

0:25 “this isn’t a slave or a servant” so this is where we’ve come to… we have to make that perfectly clear whenever we see a black man…SMDH… 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@BajanEnglishman51]

L0L press liberal

[@ricardoguanipa8275]

1:03 Crossover Time!

[@apieceofstupidity1879]

Pretty cool, came here from a song called Prester John

[@_sumina]

(🐙🦒🐳🐅🦕🐉🦩🦁🐍)

[@apieceofstupidity1879]

@@_sumina yes

[@aleemtariq4688]

What soundtrack is in the background?

[@tomg7124]

Ethiopia was honestly one of the great 🙌empires that this world has ever seen. Ethiopia is mentioned many times in the Bible and Quran. They are the oldest country in the World. Humans originated from Ethiopia. They have defeated European powers, Ottoman empire (several times,) Persian empire, Egypt, Somalia, etc. They are the holders of the Ark of Covenet. 1000 years Jewish before Christ. They were one of the first Christian empires in the world. They traded with China and India during the Axum empire. It sad politics destroyed the country.

[@hafizfirliansyah7784]

Ethiopia would likely consider the cradle of civ.

[@isaiahkerstetter3142]

Isn't there an Apocalypse that says the last Roman Emperor will be from Ethiopia? (So not Constantine XI Palailogos I guess.)

[@ainanshewarsame]

Ethiopia never defeated Somalia lol

[@lif3andthings763]

@@ainanshewarsame It did in the Ogaden war. They also defeated the Adan sultanate and other Somalian states many times.

[@ainanshewarsame]

@@lif3andthings763 Russia and Cuba defeated somalia not Ethiopia lol. Adal empire won more battles

[@princekalender2154]

I love, LOVE hearing more about a real African global history that doesn't rest in some Muricans blackwashing some historical or mythical character. Great video!

[@gofigureme5749]

What is a "murican"? Unfortunately for the continent of Africa and the many rich cultures, the majority of their history was an oral tradition that is probably mainly lost. The Egyptian, Ethiopian and probably Berbers are the exception. Written accounts are sadly mainly from the European perspective. This true of many such peoples throughout the world.

[@johnlewis3891]

@@gofigureme5749 Don't forget the Nubians.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@gofigureme5749 There were some significant amounts of written accounts which were unfortunately lost during the colonial conquest as royal palaces along with their libraries were burnt in Benin, Ashanti, Bamun etc. The Sahel zone and just south of it had rich written historical traditions adopted from the Islamic world but unfortunately most of the Libraries of Northern Nigeria, Timbuktu etc but for their main epics remain untranslated and locked in archives and private collections. And in states organized enough to have a formal oral historian caste they are not just just unrecorded. Like there is this channel, "The Medicine Shell" that talks of going back to their village to talk to their local elders during a ceremony about their history. The main problem with oral history is that is yes, it is dying as we speak as communities modernize without writing it out but it isn't dead yet. The other problem is that well, it doesn't go nearly as far back as written history. An oral history going back 1000-2000 years is fineable but rare and impressive. The third problem is that it is kept in the minds of people thus subject to more alterations than written but given these are usually professional memorizers much less than we might assume it would change.

[@lif3andthings763]

@@gofigureme5749 We still know about African history but why would the western world care in general. We also do have the oral history. Directors, writers, and film studios make movies for money. They have a mainly white audience so they make a movie about European history and then add a few colored people to pander to them.

[@rolandorodriguez4504]

You lot have an unhealthy obsession with Americans. I don’t like them either, but they are certainly not this boogeyman you lot seem to think they are

[@davidsavage6324]

You could do ibn Battuta the 'African Marco Polo' or Emperor Musa the First of Mali

[@hankinaz]

It may not be totally germane to the topic, but the adventures of Esteban The Moor as the first African in the American southwest (as part of the entirely luckless Cabeza de Vaca group) in the mid-1500s might be an interesting topic.

[@Imperator04]

Ethiopia has discovered europe long before this, there is proof if ETHIOPIAN traders in the 4th century during the period of the kingdom of axum

[@MammaKush88]

Exactly. There has been ⚫ Africans in Europe for millenia. I dont know why history akears starts with the moors or ⛓

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Well, he was more targeting the idea that the Muslim expansion separated Ethiopia and African Christians and European Christiandom completely

[@kerelasfinest4496]

Ethiopians are just built differently

[@Imperator04]

@@ikengaspirit3063 European christendom? Last time I checked it originated in the middle east

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@Imperator04 Yeah, I know I said European Christiandom because I was specifying that Christian states in Europe were cut off from Ethiopia and Christian peoples in Asia

[@ghost909090]

we wuz kangz

[@xmaniac99]

Wait you are Hilbert?I knew your voice sounded familiar.

[@Klipz369]

I think I heard something about those ships from Mansa musa predsesor I think the South Atlantic current prob drowned most near Saint Helena probably the remaining men were dispersed on modern Brazil and died or assimilated cause the Portuguese had to send multiple missions before seeing any progress their

[@a19ist]

Really a great video, I didn't knew about that. Just a nitpick: the title is way too long and somewhat redundant, we have "Medieval African Explorers" which gives us a period in history (medieval), a group of people/culture/region (african) and what they did (explorers), which is great, but next we have "African History" and "Medieval Africa" which is redundant since we already knew all of that in "Medieval African Explorers". So, Africa is mentioned 4 times if you add the thumbnail (btw, the thumbnail is perfect) and medieval is mentioned 2 times, I think you could simplify the title excluding the redundant parts and leaving the first part of the title (Medieval African Explorers) and "Ethiopian Empire, Prestor John" (since these last two were the focus of the video).

[@JabzyJoe]

Still trying to learn about keywords etc.

[@MetalHeadViking]

Lisbon in particular was a unic city during the colonial era 1400s to 1600s because of its huge black-african population. Usually European countries had an ambassador or someone within the court who was a black african as an exotic decoration for the ruler. And usually the western powers send black-africans to the New World. Portugal however was the exception. Bringing in huge amont of `ngolans and some other western-africans to Lisbon. So much so that this shocked other european visitors to the city with great worry. Lisbon being viewed in a negative light compared to other major European Capitals. DNA-studies have discovered that portugese have much larger amounts of sub-saharan extraction compared to any other europeans, even in particular the spaniards who basically have none.

[@TheHKY09]

Can you source this? I don't particularly believe that Lisbon was being highlighted in such a pejorative way, considering demographic replacement was not nearly as topical at that time

[@MetalHeadViking]

@Danny Tallmage Well you are wrong because all studies, the lates from the university of Coimbra in 2013, showed that portugese are much more different to other europeans in theire DNA bc of its unice african admixture. kzbin.info/www/bejne/goXcdGqCgJhlnJo

[@PackHunter117]

@@MetalHeadViking “The Portuguese people are a Romance nation and ethnic group indigenous to Portugal who share a common Portuguese culture, ancestry and language. The Portuguese people's heritage largely derives from the pre-Celts (Lusitanians, Conii) and Celts (Gallaecians, Turduli and Celtici), who were Romanized after the conquest of the region by the ancient Romans. A small number of male lineages descend from Germanic tribes who arrived after the Roman period as ruling elites, including the Suebi, Buri, Vandals, Visigoths with the highest incidence occurring in northern and central Portugal. The pastoral Caucasus’s Alans left small traces in a few central-southern areas. Finally, the Umayyad occupation of Iberia also left small Jewish, Moorish and Saqaliba genetic contributions, particularly in the south of the country.” No black African DNA anywhere here.

[@MetalHeadViking]

@@TheHKY09 Well it kind of was. The Brittish historian, H. Morse Stephens, wrote in his book, Portugal (published in 1891), alot about the matter. His sources are the english traders who claimed that Portugals population was (at the time) at least 10% west-african. They were very critical to the social "experiment". Another source is the old British Encyclopedia from 1911, which blatantly claimed that the portugese from before 1441 were a diffirent people from the portugese after 1550 because of the west-african admixture. You wont find that part in todays British Encyclopedia of course.

[@PackHunter117]

@@MetalHeadViking You can’t just put a video and call it a day. You’ll have to bring better sources to prove your point. All research shows that the Portuguese have Celtic-Roman-Germanic-West Asian-and finally a tiny bit of North African aka Moorish and Slavic and Jewish DNA. No Sub Saharan African DNA.

[@noconnection1839]

On this episode of the Twilght zone...

[@ronbittel1367]

Are scholars still blocked access to Ottoman archives?

[@OhSanjiBoi]

Shout out African History Channels: From Nothing kzbin.info Hometeam History kzbin.info/door/12lU5ymIvSpgl8KntDQUQA Hidden History kzbin.info/door/aIHjtxqn6_ej_jNLUXMeiw Ronu Spirit kzbin.info/door/WvfFnkEvg-eL-mDabIZpUQ

[@admirekashiri9879]

You forgot Red Spirit Mask his channel is underrated too.

[@christopherharper9932]

Prester John is also a character in Marvel Comics, lol

[@HealerTheMaroon]

15:13 in that very picture the writing says prete Ian

[@johnmchugh8049]

Reminds me of dialog from true romance

[@uphillwalrus5164]

Praise Yakub!

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

All praise Zer'a Yacob.

[@debbiedowner5375]

There is a major misunderstanding when people hear of African people traveling into Europe because most of the people that traveled into Europe were from North Africa the people that live in North Africa are Berbers and Arabs who have a complexion that is swarthy/tawny and that means a yellowish tan color that is similar to a lion but it does not mean dark/black. When history talks about Europeans mixing with Africans it's talking about Berbers and Arabs not sub-Saharan dark/black people.

[@aerotrillproductions1039]

I agree with you you mean the barbary people who occupied the barbary coast in North Africa Algeria ect places where the lighter shade skin tone came from they are originally ottomons from Turkey in Asia who are related to Caucasians who are European

[@Takeru9292]

Not true

[@sankarchaya]

this prester john was supposed to live ... how long?

[@leulyewondwossen9045]

they know he was dead but they looked for his descendants

[@ropeszman]

Do a history video on the jews that got deported by the portuguese and spanish and English to the islands and coast of west africa

[@honourableI1]

You killed me at black samurai lol

[@lif3andthings763]

One existed lmaooo

[@ikengaspirit3063]

An English Samurai also existed at one point.

[@FrangoTraidor]

affirmative action, reparations, blm and reverse discrimination go a long way

[@chroma._.5986]

worlds smartest colonizer be like:

[@makethmunny101]

Everyone, hear me out ! After watching this video, what say you some of us make a Manga about these African Explorers/Diplomats in Europe ? Including the Ethiopian Christians as cool characters. I think if the story is written well, could have more potential than Yasuke especially if the art style is regal and elegant itself. What say you guys ?

[@talesofthechrysalis]

There were three Ethiopias and three Indias that spanned the globe beyond current borders. East India was Hindustan or Bharat up until 1947. Today’s orientation cannot fully perceive yesterday’s 👀 The landscape has been changed

[@mrbaab5932]

Rome had outposts on the Red Sea and traded with East Africa.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Mamluk Empire 😍😍😍

[@sneedsfeed757]

Karaboga

[@LuisAldamiz]

I think you missed the famous Black Moors, almost certainly Fula from Tekrur, associated to the Almoravid Empire. They were rather soldiers or "adventurers" than explorers but they certainly reached Europe on their own account and are documented in Christian illustrated manuscripts about "the Moors". They are probably deserving more of a mention than others you do underline, you may have ignored them on account of them being Muslims but they did visit Muslim Europe (at the time Al Andalus, i.e. most of what is now Spain and Portugal) and in some cases are depicted playing chess, which is a fancy detail because we don't get many famous black chess players nowadays but once upon a time they were a significant fraction of European chess-lovers.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

He didn't ignore them because they were Muslim. He mentioned Sa'id of Mogadishu and Ibn Battuta. Probably more because they weren't like identifiable individuals but an entire group. And also as you said, they were warriors not travellers

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@ikengaspirit3063 - Fair enough I guess.

[@hardlo7146]

The Almoravids were Berbers, not Fula. They might have had some Fula warriors since their Empire extended quite far into the Sahel, but they were in no way representative of the Almoravid as a whole. There is no such thing as "Black Moors."

[@blenshanegro3260]

@@hardlo7146 he specifically states what kingdom the fulas came from Takrur. Takrur had an alliance with the Almoravids and these soldiers certainly fought in Europe. But beyond that Moor is a loosely defined and almost meaningless word but with almost any definition their certainly would've been some black moors along with many others "groups".

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@hardlo7146 yes, there are black moors for 3 reasons, the word wasn't used as an ethnic term but a religious term for African Muslims (Asian Muslims were Saracens) so there are cases of Europeans calling Black people moors, that's why the black character in that danish holiday is called a moor. 2 Berbers share alot of Genes with Senegambian people even today, after the Eurasian component that migrated in in pre-history that's unique to them, the next is Senegambian. There were and still are majority black Berber peoples, whether in North Africa like the Berbers in Sijilmassa, Morocco or the Sahara like the Tuaregs who actually have the most of those genes unique to Berbers. And don't write like Fula and Southern Black Berber groups were just incidental to the success of the Almoravids when they were important to it. The founder of the Almoravids retreated into modern day Mauritania where they allied with Southern Black Sanhaja Berbers and Takur proto-Fulani to both attack Wagadu and begin their conquest of Morocco. After which Takur basically gave them 5000 soldiers when they wanted to invade Iberia.

[@valmarsiglia]

Right, but Prester John was believed to be somewhere in Central Asia between the Islamic world and China, not in Africa. The focus shifted to Ethiopia later (ie the Age of Exploration) when Portuguese explorers first learned that there was a Christian kingdom in Africa.

[@Walid-gm2ns]

The moroccan explorer ibn batouta was also among the greatest explorers in history.

[@manayye]

These contacts with Europe saved Ethiopia during the Adal war in the 16th Century with Portugal help. Adal was a Muslim Ethiopian sultanate. Why do Somalis claim it? Then came the cruel Oromo hordes from what is now Kenya.

[@manayye]

@@salmahersi4210 🙄 Adal was not a Somali sultanate. Why you act like those Oromos who claim even ...Cush ie Sudan Nubia etc. Raw meat this that !🙄 Uppity nomad Arab wannabe. None of your business !🙄

[@salmahersi4210]

@@seesee2132 why would I be mad when I won the war and every war we had I mean Ethiopia had always 3 times the size of Somalis and I came on top is there more sit down before we change our mind and decide to take advantage of the civil war now.

[@salmahersi4210]

@@manayye oooh who we have here Black person who is pretending to be Ethiopian. But why is that because he wants to tell white ppl Africa had Civilization and all...why are you this week you want to glorify Ethiopia and make the Somalis not African just cuz Somalia and Ethiopia we say stuff to each other you think we don't know we family... poor you stop making Africans week...We never beg anyone ass Somalis matter fact is the Western world who is claiming us like it's a honor, but we declined their so-called offer and told we are the original I mean father don't imitate the son.

[@salmahersi4210]

@@seesee2132 And troll why you keep changing your name.

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

@@salmahersi4210 Somalia always begging Turkey to help 🤣🤣 you're nothing but stateless pirates.

[@rennite9266]

To say medieval Africa is geralizing Africa as a whole. And African explorers to Europe, have been so many history hasn't even been able to keep up. Likewise with European, and Asian explorers that have ventured to Africa.

[@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404]

North african ibn batuta first to explore most of the known world

[@powderedwiglouis1238]

Hilbert gtfo my screen if i wanted your channel i know where it is let me enjoy jabzy

[@HealerTheMaroon]

Prester John was called PRETE IAN in protégées meaning BLACK JOHN.

[@ainanshewarsame]

Adal empire 👑🇸🇴

[@yoseph3625]

Adal wasn't somalia😂😂 they were hararis And afars look the map of adal sultanate 🤭🤭

[@ainanshewarsame]

@@yoseph3625 when did Zeila become harari👎🤣

[@yoseph3625]

@@ainanshewarsame why you gays are mad to be included in Ethiopian history like i said the kings of adal sultanate was hararis and Somalia wasn't the part of the sultanate but they participated like being soldiers and speaking of which do you know Ethiopia bought 20% of zelia port from Somaliland

[@ainanshewarsame]

@@yoseph3625 "Ethiopia bought zeila"🤣 you're clueless I know how u feel to read about how a somali man fed u raw meat 🤣

[@yoseph3625]

@@ainanshewarsame thats what i'm telling you that is adal not Somalia and somalia aren't part of adal. By the way your name bilale was somali slave to Ethiopians.what is your price 😉

[@kermitdfrogz]

The African voyages to America us no myth; Columbus himself wrote about Africans in his voyages and they used the same (raffia?) cloth money and spear alloy composition as in the African lands they came from; not to mention the Egyptian presence in various lands in the Americas, and has a presence in Australia.

[@alangervasis]

Fake News buddy.

[@stevengreen9536]

Our history is world history.