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The notion that Eritrea was more developed and modern than Tigray and the rest of Ethiopia helped to boost Eritrean national consciousness.Italy—which had occupied Ethiopia in 1935— saw its dream of an East African empire crushed in World War II.

The year before the annexation, the Eritrean armed resistance against Ethiopian rule commenced.Tigrinya is a Semitic language also spoken by the Tigreans of Ethiopia.Arabic was chosen to represent the lowland Muslim groups in the country.The decline of the Axumite empire began around 800, when its area of dominance became too big to administer efficiently.Moreover, local resistance and uprisings coupled with the domination of overseas trade by the Islamic empire in the Middle East led to the collapse of the kingdom.

Ethiopia was subsequently constructed on the legacy of Axum.