The Exploitation of Luxury Products as a Cause of the Conquest?

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Lluis Pons Pujol

It has been proposed that the cause of the conquest of the kingdom of Mauritania in Caligula’s time was the desire to exploit some natural resources, considered luxury. We analyze the data provided by literary and epigraphic sources. We conclude that the exploitation of these resources, by itself, cannot be considered the cause of the conquest.

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Mauritania, Caligula, precious woods, purple, ivory

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Pons Pujol, Lluis. “The Exploitation of Luxury Products as a Cause of the Conquest?”. Anuari de Filologia. Antiqua et Mediaeualia, vol.VOL 1, no. 11, pp. 25-46, https://raco.cat/index.php/AFAM/article/view/392731.