The Romans didn't have a name for the continent of Africa, as we do, but one of the provinces of the empire was named Africa. The other provinces in the northern part of what we call Africa were, Egypt (Aegyptus) Cyrenaica, Numidia and Mauritania.
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Tadcaster was Calcaria in the Romans time, it came from the Latin word for lime.
North Africa already had the animals which existed in southern Europe. The process was the other way round. The Romans imported animals form north Africa and beyond: the Barbary lions and the Atlas bears of north Africa, elephants, rhinos and giraffes form deeper in Africa.
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The Romans conquered Greece, Romania, Egypt, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and the top part of Africa.
The Latin word for a wheelbarrow is "pabillus".