Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "Roman Scholar Describes Ancient Africa // Pliny on Source of The Nile and Aethiopia - 1st century AD" video.

  1. Sounds like ancient Romans saw Africa the same way we see alien planets they knew almost nothing about it.
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  2.  @shhmatdelski8386  Yea but they could not reach that place because there where too many tribes that would kill them even if they had better technology.
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  3. @Gary Hewitt they would run out of food and water many ancient explores tried this but nobody got that far until the Portuguese in the 1400s.
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  4.  @shhmatdelski8386  The locals in this case.
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  5. Cannibals can get a lot of terrible diseases they would probably not live very long too.
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  6. There would have been fossil evidence of this if this was true.
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  7. @ohmitered408 How am i supposed to know why you made this up there are so many weirdos online i can't know who is serious and who makes jokes.
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  8. @Voices of the Past just put them at the end or start of the video so we can skip them faster.
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  9. Romans called most of Africa Ethiopia because that was the only sub Saharan country they knew.
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