[blue] _Probable site of Bantu mother country_ [brown]   ”   _area of distribution of Black Negroes 2000 years ago_ [tan]   ”       ”       ”   _Pygmies, Bushmen, and Hottentots_ [yellow]   ”       ”       ”   _Hamites and Semites_ [pink]   ”       ”       ”   _Malay races_ _This map shows also the probable distribution of races about the commencement of the Christian Era and the lines of Bantu invasion_ _The Blue lines give the directions of the principal Bantu invasions_ _The mingling of race tints indicates mixture of races_ _A Red line indicates the limits of more or less certainly known country; a red dotted line gives the limits of vaguely known regions. Red shading indicates the approximate area of country well known to Europe or civilised Asia_ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nevertheless, all through the period between 146 B.C. and 415 A.C., when the Vandals invaded Roman Africa[26], the Romans were constantly warring with the Berbers, who no doubt to a great extent were pushed out of Tunisia by colonists more or less of Italian origin. The most prosperous and brilliant period of Roman rule was between 50 A.C. and 297 A.C. In 297 A.C. began the establishment of definite Christianity. Between about 50 and 530 A.C., Latin replaced Punic as the tongue most commonly spoken in the Roman province of Africa and even in the coast-lands of Algeria and Morocco. Still the Berbers were there all the time. Only a few became Christianized, the bulk of the indigenous tribes showing disgust at the way in which the different Christian sects attacked and slew each other. The Jews, having settled numerously in North Africa, won over a number of Berber chieftains to the Jewish religion. Hatred of Roman rule and of Roman Christianity impelled the Berbers of Morocco and Algeria to make common cause with the invading Vandals, and led to the rapid overthrow of Roman rule and Roman civilization. But in 531 A.C. Byzantine generals from Constantinople conquered the Vandals and established the rule of the Eastern Empire over Roman North Africa from Tangier (Tingis) to Egypt. There was once again a revival of Mediterranean civilization throughout all this region, though the Berber tribes still remained recalcitrant.