How has the Mediterranean Sea affected North Africa?

The Mediterranean Sea served as a great highway, linking the lands around its shores. It played an important role in the Roman Empire, in the rise of Italy's maritime* cities, and in the expansion of the Islamic world across northern Africa to Spain.

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the birthmark on georgiana's face alludes to the doctrine of "original sin," being tainted with evil from birth

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it caused mass african migration, african populations to grow, african empires to topple, and racism against slaves to emerge.