Hanno
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Discovery, Exploration, Geography
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Explorers
- Curriculum: African History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Carthaginian explorer{$I[g]Carthage;Hanno} Hanno founded the first trading colonies along the western African coast and then pushed on to explore the coast at least as far as modern Sierra Leone. His account of his journey provided the only reasonably accurate account of Africa until the time of Prince Henry the Navigator.
Early Life
Hanno (HAN-oh) belongs to that lamentably large class of ancients whose names have survived the centuries for a single history-shaping deed but about whom little else is known. Apart from scattered,...
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