Josephine Quinn
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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That, I think, is when everything kind of entangles and knots up and becomes this city.
So that's, I would say, where you get the city of Garama really becoming important and powerful.
That may be the origins of the kingdom we later hear about.
But it's also, it really turbocharges the trade in the Sahara, putting those two directions together.
And Numidia is closer.
It's just sort of on the edge off to the south of the Roman border in North Africa.
So it's a kind of north of the Sahara.
Tunisia, Algeria, yeah.
One thing I can think of that might be relevant to this, which is that there are some revolts against Rome in North Africa.
There's a guy called Tacfarinas, who's a rebel North African who's rebelling against Rome in their provinces in North Africa, the Mediterranean provinces across Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and so on.
And just a couple of times there are references to the king of the Garamantes helping these rebels, even coming up to the coast once.
You're going a really long way to the coast of Libya to help the rebels against the Romans.
So there is, again, a sort of sense that...
they're kind of just one remove from the kingdoms that are in very regular political and military kind of contact and conflict.
Okay, so number one, it's not all about Rome.
There are other places to talk about, not just Rome and China either.
Number two, deserts are really interesting and deserts are experienced very differently by the people inside them who know how to get around, how to exploit them from the people outside who see them as terrifying and dangerous places, quite rightly.
And...
Three, that trade and travel and exchange are a driving force in ancient history.
And the connections extend much further than people normally realise.
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