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The Roman Empire, 146 bc
V 331 BC. The Greek warrior-king
Alexander the Great conquers
Egypt and founds Alexandria,
a city on the Egyptian coast.
The Alexandrian Empire is
divided after Alexander’s death
in 323 BC. His general, Ptolemy I
Soter, establishes the Ptolemaic
dynasty in Egypt, including nearby
Libyan and Arabian regions, which
lasted nearly 300 hundred years.
W 146 BC. The Roman Empire
reaches Africa. Rome conquers
Carthage (a Phoenician settlement
in what is now modern-day
Tunisia), including its massive
maritime fleet. Rome asserts itself
as a world empire.
X 30 BC. Egypt becomes a province of the Roman Empire.
All of North Africa is now fully
under Roman control.
T
400 BC
U
V
300 BC
200 BC
W
100 BC
Harbour of Carthage (W).
X
1 BC