08-19-2011, 01:59 PM
Could the result have been something like the Seleucid Empire in Africa? I suppose it is possible, but there would be some significant problems to overcome.
What about contact with a wider Greek world? Trade and other contact would have to go through the Sahara, through Egypt or perhaps along one of the shorelines. If such routes were difficult, the growth of material wealth and the transmission of culture would be stunted.
Then there are societal problems. I don't know about the urbanisation phase of central Africa at the time. For a Greek-influenced urban society to develop, would the area first have to go through a proto-urban phase?
What about contact with a wider Greek world? Trade and other contact would have to go through the Sahara, through Egypt or perhaps along one of the shorelines. If such routes were difficult, the growth of material wealth and the transmission of culture would be stunted.
Then there are societal problems. I don't know about the urbanisation phase of central Africa at the time. For a Greek-influenced urban society to develop, would the area first have to go through a proto-urban phase?
David J. Cord
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