A) historian
An archaeologist may find it but a historian would study it
Persians and Byzantines were already weak from fighting among themselves. <span />
Because <span>Algeria had a large settler community made up of French-speaking Europeans.</span>
One of the main ways in which travel routes today differ from the trade routes of classical era civilizations is that they're far safer, since people have to worry much less about being robbed and/or injured--this is due mostly to government oversight and policing of the routes in question.<span />