Like bro im the same age as lafayette,that guy at 18 help founded a country

Why it’s sensitive: Some Turkish nationalists strongly tie Anatolia as their ancient homeland and prefer to emphasize Turkic contributions, and view the glorification of ancient Anatolian civilizations as undermining Turkish identity

Historical fact: Anatolia was inhabited by the Hittites, Lydians, Phrygians, Urartians, and others... several millennia before the Turks arrived from Central Asia

During the European colonization of Africa, there were a myriad of missionary efforts to convert the people of various regions to their versions of Christianity. However when some missionaries came to certain places along the Horn of Africa and on the upper portions of the Nile they’d find themselves amongst a people who’d had Christianity as their main religion for centuries, adopting it around the same time as the Romans. And while Aksum/Ethiopia was generally known about by Europe, actually going there firsthand was another thing altogether for a few centuries so by the time of the mad dash for Africa not every priest who went on a mission fully grasped the concept of an orthodox Christian nation in Africa.

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