Ethiopia was a Kingdom from the Southern Border of Aegyptus to the Horn of Africa and a little more. They had an extensive and long established trade system with Aegyptians going up the Nile and into their many trading cities like Luxor and Memphis. In recent decades the Province of Aegyptus was becoming exceedingly rich and the Aethiopian leadership were feeling very immasculated by the displays with many of the Aegyptians could make on their border as a show piece of their success to the poorer Ethiopians. Acts like this not only made the Ethiopians and Aegyptians grow a mutual distaste for each other but they also were talking about taking some of these rich cities for their own. Emperor Decius, who was from and much more concerned with Western Europe, neglected the African continent bu