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3. This didn't happen until the sixteenth century OTL, but the Ethiopia of the Submission Timeline is involved in much more extensive warfare along its northern border. This is also an attempt to cover up the crass mistake in my previous post regarding the demotic language of Ethiopia. A sack of Axum in the early second century SE, followed by a shift in power to a collateral branch of the royal family located in Gondar, would increase the prominence of the Amhara region in national affairs. With an increasing number of civil and military officials drawn from Amhara, the national language would eventually evolve to one in which Amharic was the dominant influence. Of course, since the Gondar-based dynasty is a branch of the Solomonids rather than an entirely different royal house, Ge'ez would continue to be the language of the court. The Axumite tradition is much more unbroken at this point in the Submission timeline, even though the capital has moved.

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