In the 14th and 15th century the rulers of the Christian Ethiopian highlands had become increasingly more interested in proselytizing the overwhelmingly Muslim inhabited land of what is presently northern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia, in large part to achieve sea access.
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Christian rulers of Ethiopia's highlands grew more eager to spread their faith into the predominantly Muslim regions of present-day northern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia, primarily aiming to gain access to the sea.