Ethiopia “The Trials of Isolation”
In 1520, Portugal was expanding its interests in the Indian Ocean and the lands therein. Father Francisco Alvarez, a mission member of a Portuguese group who arrived in the area in the spring, was the first to write about the remote highland kingdom of Ethiopia. It was a world that had grown and lived in mystery to the rest of the world and its true history had not been forgotten…but lost.
Maybe it was the mountainous inaccessibility of the Abyssinian highlands that made for isolation, but most believe it was the rise of Islam that separated this great kingdom and culture from their connections in the Mediterranean and compelling them to move southward and to become self independent. In the seventh century, with the wide expansion of Islam, Egypt was falling. Persian empires were self-destructing as well, and Red Sea bases were being occupied by the Arabians. All of these factors created a domino effect cutting off and isolating Axum,......
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