A Brief History of Africa

Mauritania was a client kingdom dominated by its eastern neighbor numidia. In between africa and syrenaica was the incalculably important prefecture of egypt. The rich nile valley was so critical that it wasn't even technically a province, and remained, instead, from the time of augustus, a country owned personally by the emperor. Egypt was not only the bread basket of the empire and the key transfer point of trade with india and the far east, but its capital of alexandria,. centre of culture, science and the arts for romans and greco-roman alike.