WI Caesar in Africa

HueyLong

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Conquering what exactly? And he didn't go into Africa anyways.....

The Sahara is basically impenetrable- and Caesar's short reign was not expansion minded.
 
Caeser goes deeper into Africa for further conquest.

Out of curiosity, where does he go?

The Sahara is inpenetrable for any armed expedition. A probe down the nile is theoretically possible, as is an advance down the moroccoan coast. Both lead to the inevitable question: why?
 
Some stupid but ambitious general gets into a quagmire trying to repeat the Gallic Wars and Caesar intervenes to save Roman prestige?
 
Out of curiosity, where does he go?

The Sahara is impenetrable for any armed expedition. A probe down the nile is theoretically possible, as is an advance down the moroccoan coast. Both lead to the inevitable question: why?
Perhaps and earlier Mali-like empire arises, trading with Rome and other Barbary Coast kingdoms. Caesar, or his successors, decide to cash in on the gold and salt trade, and sweep south to secure the region for Rome, and establish an SPQR monopoly on the resources there. Might take a century to complete, but it is a possibility.
 
Pannonia, Thrace, Dacia, Cappadocia, Britain (again)?
None of these war part of the empire at the death of Caesar...

But did they have something the Romans really wanted at the time? ;)

Mind you, Thrace would give a connection with Roman Anatolia... but it was already a client state of Rome at the time, as was Cappadocia. ;)

(Oh, and it was the Roman Republic not Empire... :p)
 
But did they have something the Romans really wanted at the time? ;)

Mind you, Thrace would give a connection with Roman Anatolia... but it was already a client state of Rome at the time, as was Cappadocia. ;)

(Oh, and it was the Roman Republic not Empire... :p)

I meant the Republic's Empire, sorry for not making this clearer...
Gold in Dacia, tin in Britain. Control Thrace, especially Byzantium, and you control Black Sea trade.
Was there anything the Romans really wanted at the time in Gaul? Aside from providing glory for Caesar, and lots of slaves, the country was hardly rich or beautiful was it?
 
Out of curiosity, where does he go?

The Sahara is inpenetrable for any armed expedition. A probe down the nile is theoretically possible, as is an advance down the moroccoan coast. Both lead to the inevitable question: why?

The only part of sub-Saharan Africa that the Romans could and actually tried to conquer in OTL was Meroë, the great Nubian kingdom.

However, all OTL Roman attempts to conquer Nubia ended in failure.
 
What about Ethiopia?

Ethiopia didn't exist as a state back then. The kingdom of Meroe was briefly on the menu under Augustus, but IIRC Petronius got himself a bloody nose trying to push across the Dodekaschoenos and later was invited to kill himself over his ambitions. That pretty much ended the African story until the Blemmyes showed up.
 

Keenir

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Ethiopia didn't exist as a state back then. The kingdom of Meroe was briefly on the menu under Augustus, but IIRC Petronius got himself a bloody nose trying to push across the Dodekaschoenos and later was invited to kill himself over his ambitions. That pretty much ended the African story until the Blemmyes showed up.

yep...Egypt under Cleopatra 7th fell to Rome - but Ethiopia under Candice didn't.

Mind you, Thrace would give a connection with Roman Anatolia... but it was already a client state of Rome at the time, as was Cappadocia. ;)

true, but Cappadocia {ie their Navy} helped Brutus in the post-Caesar civil war.
 
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