History assignment
Group 1
Grade 10thk
From number 1 -10
Name no
1.Abel Arega------------------------------2
2.abdulaziz ali----------------------------3
3.amar awol------------------------------4
4.amir ali----------------------------------5
5.amrulahe ------------------------------6
6.arsemwite-----------------------------7
7.
8.
9.blen ketema----------------------------9
10.krestian yared-----------------------10
#question1
Compare and contract the roles played by Tewodros ii,yohannis iv,menilik ii.
All the three kings played a pivotal role in the history of making the modern Ethiopia.it should
be easy to understand if we start with describing the roles of each indivsual.
The Attempt of Emperior Tewodros II (1855-1868)
Emperior tewodros by his former name known as kassa hailu was born quara.he was crowndede
as king of kings of Ethiopia in 1855 at a place called derasge Mariam with the throne name of
Tewodros II.
he considrde him self as instrument for gods will for the revival of Ethiopia ,that’s way he took
the name of tewodoros. Tewodros was the name of eagerly waited prince which is belived it will
brought preveling injustice and right adminstariton to the people of Ethiopia.
This are wars that Tewodros fought with regional warlods before he came to power
1.dejazmach goshu of gojam was deafeated at the battle of gur amba in 1853
2.Birru Aligaz and the four other Dajjazmachs at Gorgora Bichegn on April 12, 1853;
3 Ras Ali of Yajju Dynasty at Ayshal on 29 June 1853.
4.Dajjazmach Wube of Semen and Tigray at Deresge on 8 February 1855.
Tewodros want to restore imeperialism.also he had a wider vison of making acentral government and
unification of the country through protracted wars and campaigns,and his theritorial expansion was
made by conquering different indepenedent and semi-inedependentregional rulers
And after his cooronations his first attempt was to conquier wollo but it was uncessful.and the second
attempt was to conquier showa and it was successful by deafeating tekle haymanot.
Tewodros’s rule was characterized by inconsistency.he doesn’t make changes in feudal pattern of rulling
government.he confirmed the local ruling dynasties in conquered areas by his troops.
In 1865 Emperior tewodros was surrounded by power rivals in all four directions.for example:-
Menilik of(showa),tadal gawl(of gojjam),Tiso gobez (of walgite),wagshum gobez(of lasta)
And lets see some reformations carried out by tewodros II
Tewodros has initiated a number of reforms in the modernization of Ethiopia
1.socio- economic transformation-Tewodros abolished slavery,he maintained peace and security of the
state,he confiscated church land to peasants in order to collect tax and attribute in which the clergy
was dissapointed
2.religous reforms
He aboundnd the divison of clergy by declaring orthodox tewahdo as as state religion(official faith).
3.modernization
King Tewodros was a visional person he worked very hard to introduce modern ideas to his country such
as:tools,factories,new type of bildings by using stone and limestone materials,infrastructure at that
time…e.t.c.
4.military reformations
One of the most vison of Tewodros was building strong and modern military,so he concentrated in
building a national army and then he made a national army with hierarchial structure like corporal and
sargent.
The factors that affected Tewodros from the unifiction
There were two factors that affected his movment
1.internall factor
That was obtained from the opposion of regional warlords,clergy
2.externall factor
It was quarrel with britsh emire.as we tried to describe in the above dicription tewodros has a vision to
made amodern army,toget this idea downon the ground tewodros needed western halp especially from
britan he consequently sended letters to the britsh queen elzabith in order to send him man that know
how to make weapons but their was no answer by this action tewodros became very angry.
And then he seized britsh envoys that came to missionary activities and ordered them to make a
cannon,the britsh envoys made the cannon that we know presently by the name of Sebastopol.
When this rumar get into ears of queen elizabeith she send aletter to him to realize her captives but
Thewodros doesn’t say nothing and the britshes were very angry that they send 10000 of soliders to
meqdala and Tewodros was defeated and killed himself by his own gun in meqdala in1868.
The attempt of Emperior Yuhannies iv (1872-1889)
After the death of emperior tewodros many regional warlords emerged as the containder of the throne
