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This is true and almost no one seems to discuss it. Imagine an Egypt that was actually reconquered by the Crusaders, this could have connected the Ethiopian World with the European World and Ethiopian civilization would have flourished into a new Golden Age.
Hell, even the Aragonese actually wanted to pact an alliance with the Ethiopians in this timeline, despite them being surrounded by a "muslim sea".

>Alfonso was the object of diplomatic contacts from the Empire of Ethiopia. In 1428, he received a letter from Yeshaq I of Ethiopia, borne by two dignitaries, which proposed an alliance against the Muslims and would be sealed by a dual marriage that would require Alfonso's brother Peter to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter.
>In return, Alfonso sent a party of 13 craftsmen, all of whom perished on the way to Ethiopia. He later sent a letter to Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, in which he wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, but it probably never reached Zara Yaqob.

Now imagine if Ethiopia actually had access (and was part) of the Western World.