Did the Romans explore deeper into Africa?
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In its inmost recess was an island similar to that formerly described, which contained in like manner a lake with another island, inhabited by a rude description of people. The females were much more numerous than the males, and had rough skins: our interpreters called them Gorillae. We pursued but could take none of the males; they all escaped to the top of precipices, which they mounted with ease, and threw down stones; we took three of the females, but they made such violent struggles, biting and tearing their captors, that we killed them, and stripped off the skins, which we carried to Carthage: being out of provisions we could go no further. -\r\n
Date: 2023-12-16
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-garrybailey7939
How about when the Romans went down in 70 AD to Seeheim Namibia and destroyed the real Jerusalem down there. How about 132 AD when they went back down there and destroyed Judas Kingdom and burned it down just like they did in 70 AD to Jerusalem. Jeremiah 9: 11 speaks of Jerusalem Laying in desolation with no habitants of people or buildings and the black back jackals gather in that territory. Jerusalem today is still burned black an desolated with no stone on top of the other one, to this very day. Don't religion get tired of lying about the Black Hebrew Israelites the Covenant people of Yahuah and we enslaved Judah here in the United States. How about us talking about the real history without the religious cover up.
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How about when the Romans went down in 70 AD to Seeheim Namibia and destroyed the real Jerusalem down there. How about 132 AD when they went back down there and destroyed Judas Kingdom and burned it down just like they did in 70 AD to Jerusalem. Jeremiah 9: 11 speaks of Jerusalem Laying in desolation with no habitants of people or buildings and the black back jackals gather in that territory. Jerusalem today is still burned black an desolated with no stone on top of the other one, to this very day. Don't religion get tired of lying about the Black Hebrew Israelites the Covenant people of Yahuah and we enslaved Judah here in the United States. How about us talking about the real history without the religious cover up.
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-Slayer119988
Imagine, living in Rome, center of the most powerful empire at the time, hearing news of far off Africa. Living in the hot Mediterranean knowing of the forests to the north, and maybe the icy realms more north still. Thinking that the bottom of the world is a hot desert wasteland in opposition to the cold north. Then maybe finding that there are vast savannas with massive beasts in just grasslands, yet past that dense, lush jungles full of horror and wonder past that! Must have been exciting, maybe put into perspective the true size of the continent and the world.
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Imagine, living in Rome, center of the most powerful empire at the time, hearing news of far off Africa. Living in the hot Mediterranean knowing of the forests to the north, and maybe the icy realms more north still. Thinking that the bottom of the world is a hot desert wasteland in opposition to the cold north. Then maybe finding that there are vast savannas with massive beasts in just grasslands, yet past that dense, lush jungles full of horror and wonder past that! Must have been exciting, maybe put into perspective the true size of the continent and the world.
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knowledgia
It's not exactly known the real date of Carthage's foundation, it was older than Rome though, so around 800 bC, it was the last real foe of the Roman empire for a long time and it was more powerful than Rome when the first punic war occurred, since rome was rising and didn't control much more than the italian peninsula whila carthage had holdings all over north africa and even in the iberian peninsula. many historians agree on 814 bC, but it's an arbitrary consensus, it's just an indicative date
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It's not exactly known the real date of Carthage's foundation, it was older than Rome though, so around 800 bC, it was the last real foe of the Roman empire for a long time and it was more powerful than Rome when the first punic war occurred, since rome was rising and didn't control much more than the italian peninsula whila carthage had holdings all over north africa and even in the iberian peninsula. many historians agree on 814 bC, but it's an arbitrary consensus, it's just an indicative date
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-rb. 5940
In stead of thinking that the Romans went that far, have you ask yourself whether those coins were brought far by black African? Precisely, the land shown here is now dwelt by a very big black ethnic group called with nomadic and semi-nomadic branches.
One of its big subgroups gave a powerful empire so stop thinking that Rome would enter anywhere?
That is, they wander in the East part of the desert till about the south of Lybia and near Nubia.
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In stead of thinking that the Romans went that far, have you ask yourself whether those coins were brought far by black African? Precisely, the land shown here is now dwelt by a very big black ethnic group called with nomadic and semi-nomadic branches.
One of its big subgroups gave a powerful empire so stop thinking that Rome would enter anywhere?
That is, they wander in the East part of the desert till about the south of Lybia and near Nubia.
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-zim_christ_lion
Roman coins of bronze, silver and copper have been found in my country of Zimbabwe. A hoard were found in a 21 metre mine shaft near the city of Mutare featuring Antoninas Pius. A silver coin was found in the Ruenya River featuring Emperor Philip's wife, Octacilia Severa. These were likely traded. It is fascinating how much history Africa has.
PS. Arabian, Indian, Portuguese, Chinese, Greco-Scythian coins and goods have also been found.
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Roman coins of bronze, silver and copper have been found in my country of Zimbabwe. A hoard were found in a 21 metre mine shaft near the city of Mutare featuring Antoninas Pius. A silver coin was found in the Ruenya River featuring Emperor Philip's wife, Octacilia Severa. These were likely traded. It is fascinating how much history Africa has.
PS. Arabian, Indian, Portuguese, Chinese, Greco-Scythian coins and goods have also been found.
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knowledgia
I was deeply disappointed you didn't mention the war against the Kush empire and the Roman empire between 22BC and 27BC you didn't even mention them which is weird because Kush actually defeated Emporer Augustus and the Romans and Queen Amenishekhato of Kush where she sacked the city of Cairo That's a pretty big event lol and you didn't even mention it? Al be it a lot of the stories from the source is heavily Roman byass.
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I was deeply disappointed you didn't mention the war against the Kush empire and the Roman empire between 22BC and 27BC you didn't even mention them which is weird because Kush actually defeated Emporer Augustus and the Romans and Queen Amenishekhato of Kush where she sacked the city of Cairo That's a pretty big event lol and you didn't even mention it? Al be it a lot of the stories from the source is heavily Roman byass.
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-getbetter973
They simply weren-t strong enough. If the romans could have conquered all of Africa they would have without a doubt but. The Roman Empire presence in Africa was eventually eradicated by the Nubians and various other African kingdoms at the time. Outside of Egypt and cartridge which were already on the decline at the time most of the area conquered by Romans weren-t densely populated.
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They simply weren-t strong enough. If the romans could have conquered all of Africa they would have without a doubt but. The Roman Empire presence in Africa was eventually eradicated by the Nubians and various other African kingdoms at the time. Outside of Egypt and cartridge which were already on the decline at the time most of the area conquered by Romans weren-t densely populated.
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-waverlythomas3307
Knowledgia why did you leave out the fact the Kushites defeated The Roman's forcing them to signed a treaty that greatly favored the Kushites. This is one of the most well known African vs Roman stories that greatly affected how the Roman Empire did business in Egypt, and literally ended the Roman Expedition of East Africa. Kush remains the most disrespected kingdom/Empire
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Knowledgia why did you leave out the fact the Kushites defeated The Roman's forcing them to signed a treaty that greatly favored the Kushites. This is one of the most well known African vs Roman stories that greatly affected how the Roman Empire did business in Egypt, and literally ended the Roman Expedition of East Africa. Kush remains the most disrespected kingdom/Empire
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knowledgia
The Romans NEVER ventured into -Sub Saharan Africa- I don't even get why people just make up wild claims, the actual reason Romans or anyone else for that matter did not go deeper into the continent after conquering Egypt was because of the Nubians whether you like it or not. There is so much more unexplored history to cover instead of making up stuff for cheap views.
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The Romans NEVER ventured into -Sub Saharan Africa- I don't even get why people just make up wild claims, the actual reason Romans or anyone else for that matter did not go deeper into the continent after conquering Egypt was because of the Nubians whether you like it or not. There is so much more unexplored history to cover instead of making up stuff for cheap views.
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-dawnbern2917
Uhhhhhhhh. I think there's a problem here, there is evidence that the Romans actually caused the desertification of North Africa. In fact there's a growing number of us that are seeing that all deserts are basically the aftermath of human activity. Check out Allan Savory's work, and moving on then with Zach Bush and Farmers Footprint, as a way forward.
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Uhhhhhhhh. I think there's a problem here, there is evidence that the Romans actually caused the desertification of North Africa. In fact there's a growing number of us that are seeing that all deserts are basically the aftermath of human activity. Check out Allan Savory's work, and moving on then with Zach Bush and Farmers Footprint, as a way forward.
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-mikes7423
Was the sahara desert really that large during the time of the Romans (that is, at the height of their empire? Hasn't the desert been steadily expanding? and wouldn't that infer that -2000 years in the past it was much smaller? Could there have been other reasons why the Romans did not pursue expansion to the south?
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Was the sahara desert really that large during the time of the Romans (that is, at the height of their empire? Hasn't the desert been steadily expanding? and wouldn't that infer that -2000 years in the past it was much smaller? Could there have been other reasons why the Romans did not pursue expansion to the south?
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-bantuerverh607
Stop lying LOL the Romans did go deeper into Africa. Because the real true Jerusalem is in South Africa not the Middle East and you can tell a nation of devils because most of y'all know the truth and still keeping it a secret but the truth Israelites is going to expose you, you know who you are. -
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Stop lying LOL the Romans did go deeper into Africa. Because the real true Jerusalem is in South Africa not the Middle East and you can tell a nation of devils because most of y'all know the truth and still keeping it a secret but the truth Israelites is going to expose you, you know who you are. -
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knowledgia
why the romans did not expand? thats easy and simple and obvious no need to hide your lack or insight no great cities to plunder and slavery is not recommended masters ultimately breed with their slaves and the result would be ugly dark descendants
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why the romans did not expand? thats easy and simple and obvious no need to hide your lack or insight no great cities to plunder and slavery is not recommended masters ultimately breed with their slaves and the result would be ugly dark descendants
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knowledgia
no planes, no 4x4 cars (Jeebs, and they wore sandals during this whole thing.
it is admirable how far they explored with such challenging conditions, especially for European people who are more used to snow than desert.
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no planes, no 4x4 cars (Jeebs, and they wore sandals during this whole thing.
it is admirable how far they explored with such challenging conditions, especially for European people who are more used to snow than desert.
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-curtiszyr
I-m Igbo and my people were healers, farmers, blacksmith, sculptors with iron ore. We moved and engaged in trade to Cameroon to Zaire to South Sudan all the way to Sicily. The roads/stories are well documented in our arts
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I-m Igbo and my people were healers, farmers, blacksmith, sculptors with iron ore. We moved and engaged in trade to Cameroon to Zaire to South Sudan all the way to Sicily. The roads/stories are well documented in our arts
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-carlsonpakapala
Romans couldn-t get deeper into Africa because the African armies were much stronger and used to the field. when they sent an expedition down the Nile river to the kingdom of Kush they couldn-t go through it
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Romans couldn-t get deeper into Africa because the African armies were much stronger and used to the field. when they sent an expedition down the Nile river to the kingdom of Kush they couldn-t go through it
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-andrewrivera1054
Why didn't Rome follow the course of the Nile? It would be verdant on both sides of the Nile and not a desert waste land, and they'd eventually meet up with the sophisticated Ethiopian kingdoms of the time.
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Why didn't Rome follow the course of the Nile? It would be verdant on both sides of the Nile and not a desert waste land, and they'd eventually meet up with the sophisticated Ethiopian kingdoms of the time.
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-0371998
When They saw cannibals, mass murder for the african kings, fetishism in all part, They chosen to not lost their precious time. Civilize those compatible with you and with those who are coherent for a long term.
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When They saw cannibals, mass murder for the african kings, fetishism in all part, They chosen to not lost their precious time. Civilize those compatible with you and with those who are coherent for a long term.
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-theodoresmith5272
When the Greeks ran Egypt they took over the sea ports on the red sea and traveled and traded down the whole coast when the Romans took over they were sailing To India and southern Africa
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When the Greeks ran Egypt they took over the sea ports on the red sea and traveled and traded down the whole coast when the Romans took over they were sailing To India and southern Africa
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-djt241
I feel this is why Africa was behind in civilistation. imagine if the Romans were able to cross the Sahara and conquer that land. civilisation education and literature would have been brought in
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I feel this is why Africa was behind in civilistation. imagine if the Romans were able to cross the Sahara and conquer that land. civilisation education and literature would have been brought in
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knowledgia
Kidding, in the vast Sahara desert, Fii serios, naiba, i would never go there if i had supplies with food water hygiene, and equipment for 1 year(im just joking but for me thats real)
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Kidding, in the vast Sahara desert, Fii serios, naiba, i would never go there if i had supplies with food water hygiene, and equipment for 1 year(im just joking but for me thats real)
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knowledgia
I'm surprised because cross the desert is undoubtedly hard and they needed to face many challenges and obstacles in the middle. The weather was extremely hot, I'm really surprised.
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I'm surprised because cross the desert is undoubtedly hard and they needed to face many challenges and obstacles in the middle. The weather was extremely hot, I'm really surprised.
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-rhonaceandres5039
They explore all the parts of Africa why didn't the Romans of the west conquer all of Africa so they are the most first powerful and first largest empire in the world
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They explore all the parts of Africa why didn't the Romans of the west conquer all of Africa so they are the most first powerful and first largest empire in the world
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-DevinDTV
most of the script of this video was directly plagiarized from another video (Roman expeditions into sub-saharan Africa) on the topic which was released a couple weeks earlier
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most of the script of this video was directly plagiarized from another video (Roman expeditions into sub-saharan Africa) on the topic which was released a couple weeks earlier
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-danielslubski1028
30 years after i finished university (history) and reading about roman history all my life, this was somthing totally new, what a pleasant surprise -
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30 years after i finished university (history) and reading about roman history all my life, this was somthing totally new, what a pleasant surprise -
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-rb. 5940
Wait. I am in Africa and this region fits almost exactly the territory of a big black Saharan ethnic group or race called the Tebu with many branches.
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Wait. I am in Africa and this region fits almost exactly the territory of a big black Saharan ethnic group or race called the Tebu with many branches.
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-Tho-ugh-t
it is interesting when people with diffrent tehnologies and cultures meet, i like to learn about their interactions and how did the cultures look
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it is interesting when people with diffrent tehnologies and cultures meet, i like to learn about their interactions and how did the cultures look
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knowledgia
The reason why Roman legionaries did not advanced any further into Africa because they know once they are black they can-t ever go back.
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The reason why Roman legionaries did not advanced any further into Africa because they know once they are black they can-t ever go back.
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-talentless2048
why need more of africa when ur all ready eating off the Mediterranean
The British: Satisfied but still more never hurts someone
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why need more of africa when ur all ready eating off the Mediterranean
The British: Satisfied but still more never hurts someone
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