What if the Sahara Was Green?

9000 years ago the Sahara wasn't a desert, but a vast grassland populated by various people. We've only known a dry Sahara, but what if it never dried up? What could this alternate Africa look like?

Music:
The Board is Set- Johannes Bornlof
Desert Thief- Hakan Eriksson
Arabian Nights 10 - Magnus Ringblom
Ancient Discoveries - Gavin Luke
African Villages 2 - Magnus Ringblom
West African Stories 3- Magnus Ringblom

You have to consider that early Egyptian only settled at the Nile because of the desertification of the Sahara, as they were inhabitants of the green Sahara before...

[ankithtirumala]

Finally. Toto’s blessings have worked.

“A green Sahara. A green Northern Africa”

Spain 🇪🇸: *gets a wet dream*

[arbresnow]

Greenland is the first form of clickbait, started by the Vikings

[aveuch]

"Bless the rains down in Africa" -Toto

[Holyduck]

Hey! Those lakes make Africa look like it has a spooky face

[augustus]

One massive issue with your scenario here is that you claim it doesn't change the ancient world. It changes everything.
Power and wealth of Classical societies was based on the amount of food a country could produce. That's what made the Romans & Egyptians great.
A green Sahara would mean Carthage has more supplies than it ever had in our timeline, and since they had boats before Rome, they would invade Italy through sea.

[oh_tassos]

Actually, Greece is affected by the Sahara scarily much the last few years. In Crete in specific the sky is sometimes orange cause of the sand from the Sahara.

[pawion]

In another dimension :
"What if the Sahara was a desert ?"

[chickensforthechickengod]

Who knew grass could screw the Egyptians over so well

[mktj]

“Imagine a giant sandbox the size of the United States that barely anybody lives in.”
Wait, Australia?

[ThiccNose]

Sahara green? Hippity hoppity Sahara’s now my property

-British empire

[rattheninja]

Anakin is pleased with the lack of sand

[et]

Now do “What if Australia Won The Great Emu War?”

[flipflierefluiter]

I think European colonisation would no longer been a thing since I think one of the foremost reasons this could have happened is the way the sub-saharan people were kind of cut off from the Nort-Africa/the middle-east/Europe with the sahara desert being there.
If the sahara desert wouldnt have been there the sub-saharan people would have had way more interaction with the other continents wich includes scientific and technological advances thus (partly) removing the edge Europeans had over the Africans during the days of African colonization.

[cscofficial]

Someone should turn this idea into a video game: the possibilities would be endless because there would be groups so different from others in the same region

[Bagster]

Anakin Skywalker would be happier because less sand...

[michaelmorgan]

THE CHAD LAKE
-SUPPORTS PROSPEROUS SAHARAN CITY-STATES
-PROVIDES FRESH WATER TO ANY WHO THIRST FOR IT
-ISN'T MADE OF SAND

[cursedalien]

Well, if we (humans) survive long enough, we’ll see a green Sahara eventually. Most likely, everyone would want a piece of it!

[kewaso_]

Green sahara + that weird idea to build an inland sea in egypt + atlantropa proyect + antartic-less post apocaliptic future = best alternate history lore