The first thing you should know is that Abyssinia was located in Ethiopia with its capital in Addis Ababa, and Abyssinia included countries such as Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya, all of this area was called Abyssinia, and it was the third most powerful kingdom on earth after the Romans and Persians....
if you have any questions you for a theologian and historian come on by and ask it of John C. Hamer. happening right now at 8 pm EST.
he has a secular, LDS, and CofC background. he's quite academic/secular with the lectures and Q&As (atheists attend too) so it will be from an academic perspective, but also from a person of religious faith.