World History › Section G · The ancient Americas and Africa › Topic G.7
North Africa and trans-Saharan connections
North Africa faced two seas: the Mediterranean, which brought Phoenician, Greek, Roman and later Arab newcomers, and the Sahara, which its own peoples learned to cross. This topic follows the Amazigh peoples, Carthage, Roman Africa and Ptolemaic Egypt, and the camel that opened the desert.
In this topic
- Two seas
- Carthage
- Amazigh kingdoms
- Rome takes Africa
- Africans in the Roman world
- Worked example: hearing Amazigh voices
- Egypt under Greek and Roman rule
- Vandals, Byzantines and Arabs
- Crossing the desert before camels
- Worked example: what the camel changed
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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