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Agricultural Legislation And Its Impact On Economic Conditions In Africa During The Roman Era 146 Bc- 284 Ad, Salma Mohammed Husawi
Agricultural Legislation And Its Impact On Economic Conditions In Africa During The Roman Era 146 Bc- 284 Ad, Salma Mohammed Husawi
Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists
(En) This paper presents a critical analytical study of agricultural legislation in the African state under Roman rule, with a review of the most important economic features of the state, and the role played by Romanian politics in the development of African economy. The Roman conquest of Africa in 146 BC brought great changes in various economic conditions in Africa, whether in agriculture, industry or commerce, However, African agriculture was the most economic field that experienced changes, where the Roman made several changes, regarding agricultural land-use and the expansion of agriculture and development of management and division into several types …
Ortelius Map Of Africa, Meredith D. Staats
Ortelius Map Of Africa, Meredith D. Staats
Wonders of Nature and Artifice
The “Presbiteri Iohannis Sive, Abissinorvm Imperii Descriptio,” or “Map of the Kingdom of Prester John,” is a work by Abraham Ortelius, a cartographer, cosmographer, and publisher who was born and died in Antwerp, Belgium. This map was published in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, or Theater of the World, “the first uniformly sized and systematically collected set of maps by different mapmakers which is acknowledged as the first atlas,” published c. 1570 and edited into a number of languages posthumously through 1612. The atlas contained 70 maps engraved by Frans Hogenberg on 53 folio sheets. [excerpt]