The "Solomoic Dynaty" & The Christian Highland Kingdom

Question 1

restorer of this dynasty was a local ruler in_____ called_____ who claimed to be the descendant of the_____

Answer 1

Amhara, Yekuno-Amlak, Aksumite kings

Question 2

Yekuno Amlak founded the so-called “Solomonic” dynasty, using the legend of ________ and ________

Answer 2

Queen of Sheba and King Solomon

Question 3

Yekuno Amlak and his followers took this dynastic name to justify their_____ by claiming that the Zagwe rulers were________.

Answer 3

legitimacy, illegitimate

Question 4

the name “Solomonic” is placed in quotation marks because…

Answer 4

the claim of descent from King Solomon of Israel is legendary and cannot be historically proven

Question 5

the claim of being descent from King Solomon of Israel was elaborated in the _____ in the ____ century.

Answer 5

Kibre Negest (“Glory of Kings”), 14th century

Question 6

Ethiopian monarchs from ______ to ______ claimed descent from____.

Answer 6

Yikuno Amlak, Emperor Haile Silassie I, Menilek I

Question 7

In 1270, when it came to power, the Christian Kingdom was confined to the territory of…

Answer 7

Southern Eretria, Tigray, Lasta and the northern part of Shewa

Question 8

Yekuno Amlak and his successors, such as Amde-Tsion (r.1314-44), began to expand the dynasty’s territory to…

Answer 8

ancient highland provinces of Aksum and Zagwe in the north
regions of Gondar and eastern Gojjam in the northwest
Bizamo and Damot in the southwest
the Gurage lands and the Omotic populations of Wolaita and Gamo in the south
Ifat, Fatagar, Dawaro, Hadiya and Bali in the east and
southeast

Question 9

_______ was the first “Solomonic” King, who embarked on a wider and rapid territorial expansion policy

Answer 9

Amde-Tsion

Question 10

The main motives of expansion by “Solomonic Dynasty” were economic and political, i.e.,

Answer 10

to control the trade routes and
territorial seizures

Question 11

After Yikuno-Amlak’s reign ended in ____, ______ caused constant power struggles among his sons and grandsons for succession.
The succession issue appears
to have been _______ (partially/completley) resolved in ______, during the reign of _____, with the establishment of a ______ at ______in present-day _______.

Answer 11

1285, political instability, partially, 1300, Widim-Ra’ad (r. 1299-1314), ‘royal prison’, Amba-Gishen, southern Wollo

Question 12

This practice (royal prision) continued until ______force destroyed _____in ______.

Answer 12

Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi’s, Amba-Gishen, 1540

Question 13

the “restored” dynasty was centered around _____in today’s _____. However, it gradually shifted ____to the districts of _____, ______, and _____ in _____, and finally to the ______ regions dominated by the great heights of the ____ and ______.

Answer 13

Lake Haiq , South Wollo, southward, Menz, Tegulet, Bulga, northern Shewa, eastern Shewa,Yerer and Zequalla

Question 15

The ______of medieval cities was not pleasant.

Answer 15

physical environment

Question 16

______: tribute paying peasants either in kind or money.

Answer 16

Gabbar

Question 17

______: nonhereditary right to collect tribute given to officials.

Answer 17

Gult

Question 18

To effectively administer over this vast territory, the Christian Kingdom consolidated a feudal system of administration known as the _____.

Answer 18

gult system

Question 19

Gult System

Answer 19

a system which guaranteed state officials the right to collect tribute from the local peasantry

Question 20

Gult right

Answer 20

was a right given to an official to share the produce of the peasantry
the right to collect tribute from the local peasantry
a medieval substitute for salary
was not hereditary

Question 21

bale-gult or gult owner

Answer 21

An official given Gult right by the state

Question 22

Rist right

Answer 22

communal birthright to land
a claim to the hereditary ownership of land

Question 23

The Christian highland rulers also continued Zagwe’s tradition of foreign relations with ____and the _____. They also extended these relations to Europe, but closer ties were established with _____and from _______ European countries.

Answer 23

Egypt, Middle East, Portugal, Spain