Ancient Ethiopia
“The whole of the space between the Nile and Abyssinia [present-day Ethiopia], and northward to Lower Egypt once constituted Ethiopia. It was called Beled-es-Soudan (land of the blacks).” (1)(1) Houston, Drusilla Dunjee,"Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire," Chapter III, Ancient Ethiopia, The Land.
Ethiopia, Then Grew In Size & Influence
“Ethiopia was the source of all that Egypt knew and transmitted to Greece and Rome. We are accustomed to think of Ethiopia as a restricted country in Africa but this was not true. The study of ancient maps and the descriptions of the geographers of old, reveals that the ancient Land of Cush was a very widespread and powerful empire. Rosenmuller shows us that the Hebrew scholars called Cush, all the countries of the torrid zone[in and around the tropics]. It was the race that Huxley saw akin to the Dravidians of India, stretching in an empire from India to Spain. The Greeks described Ethiopia as the country around the Indus and Ganges. (Rosenmuller's Biblical Geography, Bk. III, p. 154.)” (2)(2) Houston, Drusilla Dunjee,"Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire," Chapter I, The Empire's Age And Scope . “The name Cush was given to four great areas, Media, Persia, Susiana and Aria, or the whole territory between the Indus and Tigris in prehistoric times.” (2a)
(2a) Ibid.
Another Account Of Ethiopia's Size
“In ancient times Ethiopia extended over vast domains in both Africa and Asia. "It seems certain," declares Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, "that classical historians and geographers called the whole region from India to Egypt, both countries inclusive, by the name of Ethiopia, and in consequence they regarded all the dark-skinned and black peoples who inhabited it as Ethiopians. Mention is made of Eastern and Western Ethiopians and it is probable that the Easterners were Asiatics and the Westerners Africans." (History of Ethiopia, Vol. I., Preface, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge.) In addition Budge notes that, "Homer and Herodotus call all the peoples of the Sudan, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine and Western Asia and India Ethiopians." (Ibid., p. 2.) Herodotus wrote in his celebrated History that both the Western Ethiopians, who lived in Africa, and the Eastern Ethiopians who dwelled in India, were black in complexion, but that the Africans had curly hair, while the Indians were straight-haired. (The aboriginal black inhabitants of India are generally referred to as the Dravidians, of whom more will be said as we proceed.) Another classical historian who wrote about the Ethiopians was Strabo, from whom we quote the following: "I assert that the ancient Greeks, in the same way as they classed all the northern nations with which they were familiar as Scythians, etc., so, I affirm, they designated as Ethiopia the whole of the southern countries toward the ocean." Strabo adds that "if the moderns have confined the appellation Ethiopians to those only who dwell near Egypt, this must not be allowed to interfere with the meaning of the ancients." Ephorus says that: "The Ethiopians were considered as occupying all the south coasts of both Asia and Africa," and adds that "this is an ancient opinion of the of the Greeks." Then we have the view of Stephanus of Byzantium, that: "Ethiopia was the first established country on earth; and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the gods, and who established laws." The vestiges of this early civilization have been found in Nubia, the Egyptian Sudan, West Africa, Egypt, Mashonaland, India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, South America, Central America, Mexico, and the United States.” (3)(3) Jackson, John G., “Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization: A Critical Review of the Evidence of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Comparative Religion: According to the Most Reliable Sources and Authorities ,” (1939).
Reminder
“Dealing with Ta-Merry, Ta-Nehisi, Meroe, Itiopi, Kush and Puanit as if they were distinctly separate nations of the Nile Valley at any time during the first four Dynasties [of Kemet (Egypt)] c. 3200 - 2565 B.C.E. is completely erroneous.”Jochannan-ben, Yosef, “Black Man Of The Nile And His Family”, p. 165.
Ethiopia Then Shrank In Size & Influence
“In modern geography the name Ethiopia is confined to the country known as Abyssinia, an extensive territory in East Africa.” (4)(4) Ibid. Ethiopia came into its present dimensions mainly due to other empires gaining ground and finally due to Asians (Europeans & Arabs)holding a meeting and carving up Africa into smaller countries like a big porkchop on two occasions and dividing the spoils of who gets to murder, rape, pillage and plunder the countries which were newly-formed by outsiders by using the political interests of these outsiders as the basis for the establishing the geographical boundaries in Africa which divided family groups of people who are the same people ethnically and were once the same culturally.Irregardless of being able to trace their entire family tree, just like all people in the world, we must know by now that we all still have a common origin and are thus one family ancestrally and genetically of which these later branchings and divergences from the trunk and root make us no less interconnected and interrelated in fortune and destiny. And so it is in all forms and levels of ecosystems. And so it must also be that the Creator, thus affected by us all, has vested eternal interests in all our conditions as the Seed in every seed.
