Round 14: Tossup 7
Two answers required. One of these empires marked a letter from the other as “pending,” then “not even pending”; Hormuzd Rassam relayed a response three years later after the letter’s ignoral led to a hostage crisis. One of these empires’ Prince Alemayehu was raised by the other’s ruler. These two empires’ Hewett Treaty allowed Egyptian troops to pass through one of them despite rejecting its annexation of Massawa. The ruler of one of these empires shot himself with a pistol gifted by the other’s ruler at the Battle of Magdala, where he had deployed the half-ton cannon Sebastopol against the other empire’s punitive force. Italy and these two empires fought against the Mahdi’s revolt until one withdrew after Yohannes IV died in battle. For 10 points, the Ogaden was partitioned on the border of modern Somaliland by which two empires led by Menelik II and Queen Victoria? ■END■