North West Africa (the Maghrib area) has since ancient time been known as a breadbasket i.e. an area of highly fertile & productive farmland. Yet, it this historically very important fact has been forgotten or disregarded by a lot of people and this video aims to explain this agriculture & why this North Western African area has been so important to control in history!

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Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1929). The romanization of Africa Proconsularis. Baltimore...:

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Casson, Lionel. “The Role of the State in Rome’s Grain Trade.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 36, 1980, pp. 21–33. JSTOR,

CIA, CIA World Factbook-Land Use & CIA World Factbook-Area (2022-05-04)

El Fasi, M. (red.) (1988). General history of Africa 3 Africa from the seventh to the eleventh century. London: Heinemann: [ Ссылка ] (UNESCO’s General History of Africa, vol. III:)

Erdkamp, Paul, "The Food Supply of the Capital," in The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 262-263

Erdkamp, Paul, "The Corn Supply of the Roman Armies during the Principate (27 BC-235 AD)". In: The Roman Army and the Economy, J.E. Gieben, Amsterdam 2000, pp.47-50,

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Janick, Jules (June 2002). "Ancient Egyptian Agriculture and the Origins of Horticulture". Acta Horticulturae (583): 23–39.

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World Bank, agriculture, [ Ссылка ] (2023-02-18)

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