Northern Africa is mostly desert, and it is extreamly hard to trade w/ the rest of Africa
Automatic guns and artillery weapons
It improved their reputation. Namely, the Battle of Zama was the decisive third and last battle of the Punic wars where the Romans and Carthaginians were waging war. The Romans won this battle as Scipio won against Hannibal in a decisive manner. After this battle, the Carthaginians and Romans settled for peace on very bad and humiliating terms for the Carthaginians.
All of this improved the way how Scipio, other Roman generals and Rome's army in general was viewed.
Below are the two main written versions of Sojourner’s speech, the original, on the left, was delivered at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio on May 29, 1851. The full text of each speech follows the synopsis below so you can see the differences line by line. I have highlighted overt similarities between the two versions. While Frances Gage changed most of the wording and added the southern slave dialect to her 1863 version, it is clear the origin of Gage's speech comes from Sojourner's original 1851 speech. It is interesting to note that Marius Robinson and Sojourner Truth were good friends and it was noted that he and she went over his transcription of her speech before he published it. One could infer from this pre printing meeting, that even if he did not capture every word she said, that she must have blessed his transcription and given permission to print her speech in the Anti‐Slavery Bugle.
