What I was saying though was that we are also the only country in Africa to be a Christian nation surrounded by Muslims. Not to mention, in an area with a lot of geopolitical significance.
Well all the Christian Africans today were pagans back then, but you know what I mean.
To Europe, Abysinnia was always the land of Prester John, cut off from the rest of Christendom for centuries.
It's only logical they'd support their coreligionists.