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To: Billthedrill

I watched the series “Rome”...Cleopatra’s Egypt was the primary grain supplier for all of Rome. Right?


16 posted on 08/02/2009 7:36:18 PM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: boatbums

At that time, it was Rome’s primary source of imported wheat.

Other important sources were Sicily and Africa - that would be mostly modern Tunisia.

There are many remains of rich Roman towns in Tunisia and eastern Algeria, that once thrived on agriculture.


19 posted on 08/02/2009 8:08:15 PM PDT by buwaya
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