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WHEN ARABIA WAS "EASTERN ETHIOPIA" - Parts 1 & 2 - revised
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] There are many other accounts (see previous post) that claim Zaghawa had the first kingdom of "western Sudan". Whither that is true I don't know but there are sources that make that claim, therefor we shouldn't be overly hasty to accept that they came from Arabia or wherever. The two specific cases I've brought up so far were Odudawa and Zaghawa but I'm not saying people did not migrate to "western Sudan" from Arabia or other places This shows why Zaghawa are so significant. According to Shaban they were important as soldiers: M.A. Shaban page 109 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wkqlp-lHllcC&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE]The sudden and conspicuous appearance of the Sudan amongst the armies of Ibn Tulun in Egypt calls for an explanation. [b]Some sources like us to believe that he bought as many as 40,000 Negro slaves and made soldieries out of them to build up an empire of his own.[/b] Buying such a number of slaves, let alone training them to be an effective fighting force in a completely unfamiliar territory, would certainly have required more time than the few years that preceded [b]their appearance in Egypt and subsequently in Syria and on the Byzantine borders in the early years of Ibn Tuluns rule 868/884. Other sources more accurately inform us that he enlisted these Sudan in his army[/b][/QUOTE]page 110 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wkqlp-lHllcC&pg=PA110#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE][b]We are here concerned with the Zaghawa, the name of a tribe and its territory which bordered the south of the Sahara and extended west from what is now the western Sudan across Chad, Niger and Northern Nigeria to Upper Vota. [/b]Through these regions passed an important trade route that started from Ghana and continued all the way to the Egyptian Oasis and then either to the Nile Valley or to Tripolitania.. The good relations with the king of Nubia, who had had his Nubia House in Fustat since the days of Mutasim, provided the solution[/QUOTE]page 111 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wkqlp-lHllcC&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE][b]For the Zaghawa the Nubian route was a much safer one that would save them from the hazards of the desert.[/b] Once this was established, their increasing presence in Egypt was almost a logical consequence and a clear indication of their interest is widening the scope of their trade. Ibn Tulun would have no objection to such an expansion which could only enhance the wealth of his domains. [b]This common interest created the opportunity for military as well as economic co-operation which explains the enlistment of the Sudan in the army of Egypt[/b][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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