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Roman expeditions to sub-Saharan Africa west of the Nile River. Between the first century BC and the fourth century AD, several expeditions and explorations to Lake Chad and western Africa were conducted by groups of military and commercial units of Romans who moved across the Sahara and into the interior of Africa and its coast.
Some modern historians, such as Vantini and D'Ambrosio, argue that this place is the Murchison Falls in northern Uganda, meaning that the Romans may have reached equatorial Africa. [5] The expedition from Roman Egypt reached the area of Jinja in Uganda, according to historian Vannini: [6] he believes that the legionaries were able to reach Lake ...
The Garamantes (Ancient Greek: Γαράμαντες, romanized: Garámantes; Latin: Garamantes) were ancient peoples, who may have descended from Berber tribes, Toubou tribes, and Saharan pastoralists [1] [2] [3] that settled in the Fezzan region by at least 1000 BC [4] and established a civilization that flourished until its end in the late ...
At the beginning of the 19th century, European knowledge of the geography of the interior of sub-Saharan Africa was still rather limited. Expeditions exploring Southern Africa were made during the 1830s and 1840s, so that around the midpoint of the 19th century and the beginning of the colonial Scramble for Africa, the unexplored parts were now ...
The Romans organized expeditions to cross the Sahara desert with five different routes. All these expeditions were supported by legionaries and had mainly a commercial purpose. One of the main reasons of the explorations was to get gold using the camel to transport it.: [ 4 ]
The expedition would aim the conquest of the city of Garama, an important city for the Garamantes, eliminating the tributes for the nomads of the desert, and occupying some mercantile routes for the advantage of the Romans. [1] Trans-Saharan roman expeditions-explorations. See Balbus' expedition in purple.
In the 9th century BC, Rome began encroach on territory in North Africa after the annexation of Carthage and Numidia and settle the Province of Africa with Roman Coloniae. Africa was one of the wealthiest provinces in the Roman Empire second only to Italy. It was said that Africa fed the Roman populace for eight months of the year, while Egypt ...
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".