CLAS 335 Lecture 7: North Africa
13 Feb 2018
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Whole of north african coastline within roman sphere of in uence by (cid:403)(cid:403) bce. Very narrow strip of land under roman control. Region remained (cid:318)untroublesome(cid:319) for next (cid:402)(cid:399)(cid:399) years (cid:336)coopera(cid:2210)on or suppression(cid:337) Due to mix of local coopera(cid:2210)on and roman suppression. Some people who saw the advantage of working with romans. Some people who opposed them but it was such a small group. Nature of pre-roman socie(cid:2210)es a ected by geography. All ci(cid:2210)es west of cyrenaica were phoenician: sabratha, oea, lepcis magna (cid:336)trade with. Numidia (cid:336)berber(cid:337) independent un(cid:2210)l (cid:403)6 bce (cid:336)supported pompey(cid:337) Mauretania (cid:336)western half of atlas mtns(cid:337) remained dis(cid:2210)nc(cid:2210)vely berber. Con ict with carthage brought rome"s interference: (cid:400)(cid:403)6 bce, total destruc(cid:2210)on of. Expansion moved outwards and then to the west. Jugurtha, numidian king from (cid:400)(cid:400)8-(cid:400)(cid:399)6 bce, overthrown. Before this there was an alliance between numidian kings and rome. Juba i removed by caesar in (cid:403)6 bce for his support of pompey; africa vetus and africa.
