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Fort Jesus major states, peoples, and trade routes of eastern Africa, c. 1850 Central Africa, c. 1902 eastern Africa partitioned, c. 1914 East Africa. Political/Physical map: regional, elevation. East African mountains and lakes cultural and linguistic regions of East Africa
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The history of the Horn of Africa has largely been dominated by Ethiopia and has been characterized by struggles between Muslim and other herdsmen and Christian farmers for resources and living space. The Christians mostly spoke Semitic languages and the Muslims Cushitic tongues. Although these languages were derived from the same Afro-Asiatic stock, the more apparent differences between the peoples often were excuses for war, which, by the end of the 20th century, was waged under the banner of nationalism and Marxism-Leninism. When the Ethiopian empire of Aksum emerged into the light of history at the end of the 1st ...(100 of 13851 words)

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