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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: A new topic: the Sahara
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Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 10:21:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 7 10:21:35 1986
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>From: jin@hropus.UUCP (Jerry Natowitz)
>I don't think this explaination is as outlandish as you think.
>I read an article a few years ago (probably Scientific American or
>Smithsonian) that overly intensive grazing and/or cropping is responsible
>for the the growth of the Sahara. Of course the Sahara was never
>the bread basket of the Roman Empire, or was it?
Egypt was the the breadbasket of the Empire, but I'm
pretty sure that the other provinces of North Africa
were big exporters of grain during the imperial period.
Scily was too during classical times, although I'm not
sure about it as late as imperial times.
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Joel Upchurch @ CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (A Perkin-Elmer Company)
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