>in an era where most people never traveled more than a couple miles from home excepting religious pilgrimages (done by extremists and rich people)
>there was actually a massive multi-ethnic society
>which just happened to stop during the period where travel became easier and colonials were going all over the place

Whatever man, fuck it. Put the Ethiopian quarter next to the Jewish quarter, don't forget to have the Ethiopian Christians join in on massacring the semites. What a fucking boring, tired, and disingenuous topic.