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The OSU Black Studies Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The three Punic Wars (264 to 146 BCE) gradually whittled away Carthage's dominance of the Mediterranean, and ended in the utter destruction of the city of Carthage, the enslavement of it's citizens, and the creation of the Roman province of Africa. |
| | The last to fall was Egypt in 30 BCE when the Octavian (Roman Emperor Augustus) defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII in the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE and opened the door to the conquest of Ptolomaic Egypt. |
| | By 770 BCE, the Kingdom of Kush had extended its borders north to the boundaries of the Upper Nile and began to take a leading role in African affairs that was to last 1000 years. |
| library.osu.edu /sites/blackstudies/BookofDays2.html (12467 words) |
