EthiopiaBy Jamie Vice, Ashleigh Sanders,

and Rachel Kenderdine3rd Hour

Ethiopian Facts

• Ethiopia is located in the non-coastal part of the horn of Africa.

• The capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa• GDP per capita was $1000 in 2010.

Colonial History in Ethiopia• Oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in Africa (Lucy, oldest found

skeleton @ 3.2 million years old, discovered there in 1974)• Portugal established contact in 1500’s to strengthen control over Indian Ocean region and

to convert the peoples of Ethiopia to Roman Catholicism, but this resulted in roughly a hundred years of religious warfare

• During the 1700’s (The Era of the Princes), there was no central power in Ethiopia due to competition between local rulers

• The Emperor Yohannes built upon the efforts of Tewodros in 1869 (brought Princes together), stopped invasions

• The Emperor Menelik II (1889-1913) also fought off invasions, and in 1896 Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa

• In 1936, in the rule of Ras Tafari Makonnen, Italian forces invaded Ethiopia and five years later the British defeated the Italians, removing them from Ethiopia and returning Ras Tafari to the throne

• Derg (committee) started in 1974, a socialist government with Major Mengistu Haile Mariam in power in a totalitarian government which ended 17 yrs. Later

• Established Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front in 1989, returning Addis Ababa to the people, forming the Transitional Gov’t of Ethiopia in 1991

• Adopted constitution for Federal Democratic Republic in 1994 and first parliamentary elections were held in 1995, with government being installed in August of 1995

Starving man in Ethiopian village

Result of the drought in Ethiopia

Addis Ababa

Resort

Starving child

Addis AbabaAU conference center

Malnourished child and camels=drought-caused

Addis AbabaPicture of capital city from a hotel window

Housing in an Ethiopian village

Resort in Ethiopia

Slum of Addis Ababa

Malnourished, ill baby

Addis Ababa

Obelisk Monument

Addis AbabaUniversity in the capital

Ethiopian school

Grand home in Addis Ababa, capital city

Another slum of Addis Ababa

Uptown Gurgaon

Ethiopian girl carrying water

Homeless in Addis Ababa