Show King Granary The Crimea and tho whole Black sea region owing to the sparse population popu-lation to consume It had a great surplus sur-plus of wheat For centuries It was coveted by all hungry nationsand exploited by the ono with tho strongest strong-est armies For centuries after Athens had feasted upon the graln raising lands beyond the Bosphorus Mlthrl dates as a preparation for his life and death contest with Rome fell upon tho corn fields of the Crimea Because Sicily was yellow with wheat from earliest memory through ages and ages she was raided by all the powers ot the world It was because ot Egypts corn moro plentiful than anywhere any-where else along tho Mediterranean that Caesar and Pompoy wanted the land of the Ptolemies It was when Rome held or controlled the granaries her first and dearest conquests of Sicily Sardinia Spain and Egypt that she could become mistress ot the world |