The expedition to the North was greatly successful. New people were being found and every day and trade routes were opened gladly to boost Ethiopian trade. One such people were the Polish. They didn't have much to offer but they could prove useful in the future for future technology exchanges.
More natives began to near the borders of the frontier city of Gondar. The trained archers could easily deal with the threat though. The impis were losing their power more and more.
To the North there was a city. The Republican Independency of Kyiv ruled over the lands known locally as the Ukraine. When Ethiopians stepped on a small peninsula known as the "Crimea", every flipped the heck out, no one really knows what was so important but regardless there were wars over it between this land and a mythical land known as Russia.
As suspected the natives were killed by the archers stationed in Gondar. The silver mines were safe and the people could sleep once again.
With the fall of India another power began to dominate the region. The Southern Indian kingdom known as the "Chola" took the land and gobbled up old Indian cities and they united much of the Deccan peninsula. These Chola also seemed to welcome outside trade and they opened their borders with the African superpower.
The scouts of Europe had seen enough. There was nothing more they could get from traveling around the area of Christendom. The horsemen then set their bearings for East. Not knowing what they would find, the horsemen began their movement to new and strange lands.
There appeared to be a new people. The Seljuk Turks as they called themselves. They were violent, war-like, and did not give up. The Ethiopians wanted nothing to do with them as they gobbled on the Arabian land of Mesopotamia.
The Turks then turned their attention to the East and began terrorizing the lands of Anatolia. The villages were sacked, the people killed, and the towns burned. The city of Anqarah was then captured by the aggressive militants. and Arabia began to fall apart with its Northern territories.
As the Ethiopians high-tailed it out of Asia Minor, they noticed the vastness of what was lost. Arabia lost Persia as well as Mesopotamia to these nomadic warriors. Zara Yaqob thought it best not to meet with these war-like people.
The city of Quilemaine had been founded by the natives along the Eastern coast of Africa. This would likely have become their base camp for terror and killing innocent Ethiopians. They would not stand for this and the most powerful soldiers in the army were marched South. The city was then razed by Yaqob to ensure that no natives could terrorize the people of Ethiopia. The Emperor promised though to rebuild what was lost, some day.