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To discover Holy, it's here: https://fr.weareholy.com/LaFolleHisto... By using the code LaFolleHistoire5 you have 5€ off your first order! Thanks to Holy for sponsoring this video. In the 19th century, while Europeans took over the African continent in a few years, the Ethiopian Empire was a unique case, since it was the only African state to have escaped colonization... To follow me: Instagram: / lafollehistoire Twitch: / thibaultbourdin X: / lafollehistoire TikTok: / lafollehistoire Credits: ????️ Research and writing: Thibault Bourdin and Guilhem Jean (@DHistoiresenHistoire) ???? Editing: Werner Riboulot (@Werner_mp3) and Thibault Bourdin Miniature: Thibault Bourdin Motion Design: Paul Cotoni (@pcotoni) Maps: Gabriel Villaret (@LaMinuteGeographie) Produced by Carbon 14 ???? Music: https://fr.audionetwork.com/project/v... ???? Sources: Books Serge BERSTEIN and Pierre MILZA, Histoire du XIXe siècle, 2019 edition Philippe FORO, Fascist Italy, 2016 edition Nicola LABANCA, Overseas: History of Italian Colonial Expansion, 2014 edition Articles Hélène ARNAUD and Christopher CLAPHAM, “War and State Building in the Horn of Africa”, Critique internationale vol. 9, 2000 https://www.persee.fr/doc/criti_1290-... Marina BELLOT, “The Battle of Adwa: Ethiopia’s Military Victory over Colonial Italy”, RetroNews, March 6, 2021 https://www.retronews.fr/conflits-et-... Angelo DEL BOCA, “The Empire of Five Years”, Materials for the History of Our Time – The Year 1936, No. 7-8, 1986 Alain GASCON, “Greater Ethiopia, a Reconquista Revenge of a Jihad”, Hérodote No. 106-3, 2002 https://www.cairn.info/revue-herodote... Alain GASCON, “Ethiopia: ‘Middle Empire’ of the Horn of Africa”, Bulletin of the Association of French Geographers No. 79-2, 2002 https://www.persee.fr/doc/bagf_0004-5... Alain GASCON, « ''Ethiopia will stretch out its hands to God'': 2000 years of the Ethiopian State », L'Espace Politique n°7, 2009 Fabienne LE HOUÉROU, « The Italian colonial moment as repulsion/attraction in the Eritrean and Ethiopian national imaginations » From Italy and elsewhere – Mélanges in honor of Pierre Milza, 2014 Estelle SOHIER, « The creation of Ethiopian national symbols and the colonial conquest under the reign of the king of kings Menilek II (1889-1913) », Hypothèses n°10-1, 2007 Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:05 Holy 03:24 Ethiopia, a thousand-year-old empire 06:07 Facing Italy 13:39 Ethiopian resistance 19:57 The Fall of the Ethiopian Empire 22:42 Acknowledgments (800K)