Ethiopians rode lions like horses. Under the reign of Haile Selassie I

Did you know that Ethiopians trained Lions to catch enemy troops and battled with Cheetahs, bees, elephants, and lions?

Ethiopians went to battle with lethal creatures and insects such as bees, wasps, lions, elephants, or cheetahs trained to capture enemy camp troops, allowing them to win all colonization wars against them and be the only country in the world to have never been colonized. 

At the battle of Adwa, Ethiopian warriors proficient in sword warfare known as Shotel decimated the invading Italian soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, resulting in a resounding African victory...

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