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IDKMYDE: Ethiopia: The African Empire Europe Couldn't Break · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The African Empire that Europe couldn't break.
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  Speaker 2: Introducing Ethiopia, I Know it All.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of the most anticipated podcast
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  Speaker 1: on the Black Effect podcast Network, especially in February. It's
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  Speaker 1: entitled I didn't know, Maybe you didn't either, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, be Dott And in twenty twenty six, I
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  Speaker 1: want to go to Africa Johannesburg, Ghana. Do they like
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  Speaker 1: us in Nigeria because I read in the comments on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram they got some real bad words for Black Americans
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  Speaker 1: in Nigeria. AnyWho, this week, you need your digital passport
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  Speaker 1: because we're traveling all around the world discovering black history.
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  Speaker 1: Because the origin story for black folk ain't enslaved in
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  Speaker 1: America after being kidnapped in Africa.
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  Speaker 2: If your version of African history is everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Got colonized, this episode is about to fix that. Before
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  Speaker 1: we jump into the episode, it is imperative it is
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  Speaker 1: customary that I give you three of the most useless
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  Speaker 1: facts you'll.
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  Speaker 2: Never need, never, not a day in life. Up.
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  Speaker 1: First, Ethiopia is one of the only African nations to
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  Speaker 1: successfully resist European colonization.
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  Speaker 2: Your second useless facts.
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  Speaker 1: In eighteen ninety six, Ethiopia defeated Italy in.
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  Speaker 2: A full scale war.
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  Speaker 1: And your third useless fact is that victory shook Europe
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  Speaker 1: so bad they tried to pretend that it never happened,
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  Speaker 1: which is why we've got today's episode. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. All right, let's set the scene is
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  Speaker 2: the late eighteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 1: Europe is carving up Africa like a buffet, Britain, France, Belgium, Italy,
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  Speaker 1: everybody grabbing their own pieces of land, their own resources
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  Speaker 1: and people. Italy looks over at Ethiopia and says that
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  Speaker 1: one's next, and Ethiopia says, the devil is alive. You
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  Speaker 1: ain't got a snowball and a microwaves chance to conquering
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  Speaker 1: nothing over here. My stepdad, you used to say that
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  Speaker 1: all the time. You ain't got a snowball and a
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  Speaker 1: microwave chance. Anyways. Led by Menelik, the Second Ethiopia wasn't guessing, hoping,
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  Speaker 1: or improvising. See, they studied the European tactics, They stockpiled
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  Speaker 1: modern weapons, they unified their people, They prepared for war.
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  Speaker 1: Meneleik's wife. She was an empress named tATu Batold. She
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  Speaker 1: personally led troops in the battle. She commanded the northern
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  Speaker 1: forces at Adua and cut off the Italian water supply.
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  Speaker 2: A whole military strategist.
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  Speaker 1: And when Italy invaded Ethiopia put built to Italy at
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  Speaker 1: the Battle of Adoir, I mean decisively. It was seventeen
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  Speaker 1: thousand Italian troops. Man Ethiopia had one hundred thousand plus soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: Italy lost four twenty percent of his seventeen thousand troops
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  Speaker 1: in a single day March first, eighteen ninety six. That
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  Speaker 1: wasn't no symbolic resistance. How were military dominance and the
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  Speaker 1: impact was global Man black folk all across the world
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  Speaker 1: was celebrating Ethiopia. That was proof that Africa weak black
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  Speaker 1: leadership worked. Colonization was not our destiny. Ethiopia became a
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  Speaker 1: symbol from Marcus Garvey to Pan African movements. Ethiopia stood
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  Speaker 1: as evidence that black sovereignty was possible. Take the Ethiopian
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  Speaker 1: flag for example, green, gold and red. That became the
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  Speaker 1: template for independence flags all across Africa. Donald Senegal, Molly, Cameroon,
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  Speaker 1: all echoes of Ethiopia's defiance.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: For us, this almost goes back to Week two hidding
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  Speaker 1: in plain sights, And that's exactly why.
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  Speaker 2: The story got minimized.
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  Speaker 1: Because if people learned Africa could win, colonization starts looking illegal,
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  Speaker 1: not inevitable. A century after Ethiopia embarrassed a European empire,
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  Speaker 1: Cartergie Woodson launched Negro History Week to preserve stories just
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  Speaker 1: like this, because victories are dangerous to empires, Woods and
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  Speaker 1: new If black people only learn about losses, they'll never
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  Speaker 1: imagine power. Ethiopia proved that power was real, and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 2: Congrats your passport get stumped. Next up, Jamaica