Two distinct leaderships collaborating mechanically produced Italian unification’s success
Evidence
The effect of this with the added menace of the Mahdia in the Sudan was, like the earlier Egyptian invasions, to give a further impetus to Abyssinian unity. … The two leaders, however, concluded a dynastic alliance, agreeing to a division of their anticipated conquests, and John accepted that on his death Menelik should take the title of Emperor. In 1887, after the ardent Muslim ruler of Harar, ‘Abdallah Muhammad, had conveniently caused his soldiers to massacre a party of Italian explorers, Menelik seized the city and appointed his cousin Ras Makonnen as governor. In a message to the British at Aden, Menelik made it clear that he regarded ‘Abdallah Muhammad as a latter-day successor to the sixteenth-century Muslim conqueror Ahmad Gran, and that ‘Abdallah’s defeat, like Gran’s, was a vindication of Christian sovereignty. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 164 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: External pressure from European powers and Mahdists drove Abyssinian unification. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 164; Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class; Neo-Guelphism sought an Italian federation under the Pope
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Broader Connections
- Neo-Guelphism sought an Italian federation under the Pope
#contradicts(0.80) - External pressure from European powers and Mahdists drove Abyssinian unification.
#corroborates(0.78) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 164 - Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class
#expands(0.72)