markellion's video: Ethiopian origin of Aksum

Jesse Benjamin http://books.google.com/books?id=sd4gnqTZ8IUC&pg=PA41&dq= =onepage&q=&f=false .. The Axumite kingdom is an excellent case in point. Being such an important example of African cultural development, a European myth of external (South Arabian) origins for this culture solidified in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has taken on the quality of truth for most scholars even today. In fact, there is little evidence for this other than the powerful pull of ideology, which states that Africa cannot produce culture, civilizations, or history http://books.google.com/books?id=sd4gnqTZ8IUC&pg=PA44&dq= =onepage&q=&f=false Houston.... referred to Alexander the Greats views on the unparalleled stature of ancient Oman, which she says was inferior to no country and a harbor of the ancient commerce. she did amass some evidence to argue that this area was under Black African control and culture, something which fits well with the fact that African lands were responsible for much of the wealth of this trade Ethiopias Historic Ties with Yemen By Richard Pankhurst http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/from-ethiopia-to-yemen/ Standing Conti Rossini on his Head The result of such convergent investigations by scholars working in different fields was that Jacqueline Pirenne, basing herself on the areas material culture, as well as on linguistic and paleographic data, stood Conti Rossinis thesis on its head. She argued that migration was not from Yemen to Ethiopia, but rather in the opposite direction: from Ethiopia to Yemen. The African abroad 1913 http://books.google.com/books?id=8yIbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA473 =onepage&q=&f=false But now we come to some remarkable statements, which show and prove that the Ethiopians were of the same race and stock as the Abyssinians. The New International Encyclopaedia says: "The Abyssinian monasteries are known to possess large numbers of (Ethiopian) manuscripts." The Americana Encyclopaedia says, "During the middle ages the Christians and clergy of Abyssinia were designated as the Ethiopian Church. Manuscripts written in the Ethiopian language are in the possession of Abyssinian monks and in libraries in Europe." http://books.google.com/books?id=8yIbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA474 =onepage&q=&f=false The Americana Encyclopaedia also says: "Meroe and Axum (in Abyssinia), which appears to have been a colony of Meroe, remained the center of the southern commerce till the time of the Arabians. . . . (the author comments) "If Axum, once the capital of Abyssinia, was a colony of the Isle of Meroe, it clearly shows that the Abyssinians were of the same race stock as the Ethiopians"