Rome in Africa
Name/Title
Rome in AfricaDescription
The history of the north-west Africa is largely the history of foreigners- Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Arabs, Turks, and French. The Romans ruled it for six hundred years. In Africa, they demonstrated most strikingly their gift for government. At the height of its prosperity, in the second and third centuries AD this unpromising half-desert province was the granary of Rome; it became a greater producer of olive oil than Italy itself, and supported nearly six hundred cities, twelve thousand miles of roads and hundreds of aqueducts, some of them forty or fifty miles long. It was the birthplace of Terence and Apuleius, of Tertullian and St. Augustine, and emperor Septimius Severus, who made Leptis Magna into one of the most magnificent cities of the ancient world.Category
Book
Books & Paper