AHC - Superpower Abyssinia

How is it that we can see a superpower Abyssinia by the 20th century which is still majority Eastern Orthodox and still ruled by the Solomonic Dynasty. The majority of the population should be Amharic and the country should have at least 100 million in population.

Other pre-requisites is for Abyssinia to be have nuclear weapons, be the foremost power in Africa and hold immense geopolitical influence.
 
How is it that we can see a superpower Abyssinia by the 20th century which is still majority Eastern Orthodox and still ruled by the Solomonic Dynasty. The majority of the population should be Amharic and the country should have at least 100 million in population.

Other pre-requisites is for Abyssinia to be have nuclear weapons, be the foremost power in Africa and hold immense geopolitical influence.

Maybe a marriage alliance with Byzantine Empire and intense ties to Constantinople ? Economic boost and conquest of all large areas of Eastern Africa, maybe even foothold on Arabian peninsula (Yemen ) ? maybe they even make contact ton the Kiev Rus and implement ties ? (Varegian guard for Ethiopian emperor) ? Maybe also early diplomatic relations with the medival Western Chatolic world and the pope ? Would be interesting, if there could be some inovative medival version of emeror Menelik , who unfies the country a little bit more.
 
A christian Egypt is a must, Ethiopia was pretty much isolated from the Christian world after the Muslim conquests.

Either a Coptic revolt succeeds and, with Abyssinian help, they resists reconquest attempts or Ethiopia goes all the way down the Nile in the hard way.
 
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