Leptis Magna

He and his men marched for three months until he reached what the Romans called Ethiopia, which meant roughly anywhere black Africans lived rather than the modern state.

The other concerned a man named Julius Maternus, probably a merchant, who set out from Leptis Magna on the Libyan coast around 90 AD and reached the Garamantian capital.

He then traveled with the Garamantean king on a campaign due south for four months, and they arrived at a country called Agassimba, which Ptolemy describes as where rhinoceroses gather.

Four months south of the Sahara puts the Romans deep into the Sahel, the southern border of the Sahara.

Having technology that would blow our minds.

Leptis Magna.

located in Qams, Libya, where a massive, extremely advanced civilization was busy constructing stone structures.

Columns all over the place.

It is kind of odd that we went back to donkey riding cowboys, leaking roofs, hammers and chisels, no light bulbs and bathing in your local pond.

Just like we showed in Palmyra, Syria in previous episodes, Libya, also gets a palace theater.

And again, something happened here in the 1800s, the beginning of our civilization's timeline, where part of the ancient temple was taken from the site and brought from Leptis Magna to the British Museum in 1816.

And this is a photo of it.

Yeah.

It was the three coastal settlements of Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna, wenth it- within this wider region called Tripolitania.

So that's another, that's another, um, pattern, cities that are named after multiple cities.

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Load of trash, never been coined before, was coined because what they wanted to do was to separate the north of Africans, where they thought people had some type of, um, because it suited them at the time, some type of historical background, looking really at Egypt and nothing else, uh, uh, to be fair.

And, and to some extent you could say Phoenicians coming into the North African region and looking at Leptis Magna and areas of Roman, Roman North Africa.

So of course you couldn't kinda get rid of that.

So what they wanted to do was incorporate them into the white race.

But around the same time that they had an African emperor, something was happening in a different power line in Rome, where they also had an African pope, Pope Victor I. who rose to power from 189 AD to 199 AD, was the first African Pope.

Now, both Septimus and Pope Victor I were born in what is now called Libya, in a city called Leptis Magna.

So two Africans, two blacks, were the most powerful people in Rome around 195 AD.

Just picture this.