Question
The Glorious Victories chronicles Amdä Ṣeyon’s conquest of Islamic Ifat from this sultanate’s founding Walashma dynasty, which aided Hadiya after Zara Yaqob forcibly converted Princess Eleni. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this sultanate that fortified its “holy city” of Harar after Lebnä Dengel allied Ethiopia with Portugal to fight its Afar and Somali forces. It was based north of the Ajuran Empire.
ANSWER: Adal Sultanate [or Adäl Kingdom or Adäl Empire or Bar Sa‘d ad-Dīn; accept Adel or Adalite in place of “Adal”; accept Ethiopian–Adäl War or Abyssinian–Adäl War] (Nur ibn Mujahid fortified Harar.)
[10h] This general broke with Adäl nobles to import cannons to Zeila and wage a 14-year conquest of Ethiopia. Gälawdewos defeated this left-handed imam at the 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga.
ANSWER: Imam Aḥmad [or Aḥmad Gragn, Ahmed Gragné, Ahmed Grañ, Axmed Gurey, or Axmed Gurey; or Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghāzī or Axmed Ibraahim al-Qaasi; prompt on al-Ghāzī or al-Qaasi] (The Futūḥ al-Ḥabaša, or Conquest of Abyssinia, is a primary chronicle of the war.)
[10e] Aḥmad’s war left Harar vulnerable to raids by these pastoral people, who often converted to Islam during early modern migrations that made them Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group.
ANSWER: Oromo people [or Oromoo; accept Oromo migrations or Oromo expansions]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 8.75 | 54% | 29% | 4% |
Data
| NYU | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brown | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago B | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toronto B | Florida | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iowa State | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kentucky | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | McGill | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Penn | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale B | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford | Texas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ottawa | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |