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Was ancient North Africa all desert?

Oases and varied terrain complicate a picture of North Africa as continuous desert.

Question

Was North Africa desert at the time?

Short answer

It was less uniformly desert than that suggests, with oases and other areas within the region.

Notes

North Africa contained oases and varied terrain. Treating the whole region as continuous desert obscures that variation. Rome: Total War provides the illustrative example used here.