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The fertile zone around the Nile was Rome’s bread basket, not the modern desert. It’s still a major agricultural area.
by ch4s3 11mo ago
The fertile zone around the Nile was Rome’s bread basket, not the modern desert. It’s still a major agricultural area.
- fakedang 11mo agoRome's breadbasket was more than the Nile. Tunisia and parts of modern Algeria were also extremely green even during the late Roman period
- ch4s3 11mo agoAlgeria probably has more land under cultivation now than in antiquity.
- IAmBroom 11mo ago"Carthago delenda est"... Although apparently the "sewing with salt" was hyperbole, Northern Africa was far more fertile then.