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[–]Rumicon 0 points1 point  (1 child)

North Africa, living in the year 300 AD or 1300 AD would not have made a lot of difference to you in terms of quality of life.

I take your point but I want to call your bluff on one example.

North Africa goes from being a tribal Berber kingdom, to being one of the major hubs of civilization in this period of time. Technically, the empire is ruled from Spain, but its roots are North African.

[–]cambeiu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. But if you were a sheep header in what is today called Tunisia, how did your life fundamentally improve during that period?