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Belisarius Reconquered Africa and Italy for Rome. Why Did Rome Destroy Him for It? artwork
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Belisarius Reconquered Africa and Italy for Rome. Why Did Rome Destroy Him for It?

History Unplugged Podcast by Scott Rank, PhD

Aug 25, 202652:44Society & Culture

In 533, a twenty-eight-year-old general named Belisarius sailed from Constantinople with 15,000 men to reconquer North Africa from the Vandals, a kingdom that had held it for nearly a century since the sack of Rome. The...