@@uselesshero.official they didn't cause genocide at all. The simply won and thousands died. Do you know how many Roman's Carthage killed? Hundreds of thousands so your talking out your own arse
Hannibal wasn't scared of anything ,. His father made him swear to be an enemy of rome on blood for the rest of his life , he marched a whole army to Italy through the alpes which he lost nearly half of , He stayed in their Land for 14 years never lost a Battle to them with a single army and without any reinforcements from Carthage other than The galic tribes nor supplies from his country living of the land , he won major victories against them , Even once they encircled him in a valley he marched through the darkness of night while making them chase Fire attached to horns of cattle and then later Ambushed the Roman detachment sent to ambush him , He ambushed a whole roman army at trasimane which till this day remains the biggest and most successful ambush in the history of warfare , He won an unbelievable Victory at cannea outnumbered till the last moments of the battle , Fighting in the front with his men with one eye which resulted in the greatest Loss of humane life in a single day through the history of battles and warfare , He is the General that is more intimidating and Greater then even some kings Napoleon really considered him one of the best tacticians and he truly was , he made the rommans live in fear for 14 years , he didn't need the Great of The Conqueror added to his name , His name was enough to make anyone have chills Hannibal Barca , yet he is Super underrated
He sounds like the type of war leader Spartacus would've been had he been a free man. Which he was still able to bring the Romans to their knees with a handful of refugee slaves. Had he won the third servile war history would be drastically different.
Yep.. back in the day great generals.. even great kings.. fought right atbthe vanguard of the battle... not miles behind the battle in a tent like today. That's how they inspired loyalty. Hannible was the kind of guy who would be scaling the walls of a city, takingvarrow fire, right beside the mist common foot soldier
Poor Hannibal, gifted and commanding in the battle field but representing a nation of Merchants with unreliable allies. He won numerous battles along the way but the campaign took too long and was too expensive and costly. He almost won a victory against the odds.
@@lovepeace1552Different! Sparta was a Kingdom of warriors. Every child was raised to be a Warrior. Not Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire). Phoenicians spread like merchants all around the Mediterranean Sea since they emerged in Levante (Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria) in 3000BC. They only entered Egypt as traders around 1100BC. In its peak around 1250BC the Carthaginian Empire spread trade ports from Malta to Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia where they built Carthage, Argelia, Morocco and the South of the Iberian Peninsula. They're considered the first rukers of the Mediterranean Sea, before Greeks and Persians. But not 'cause they were Warriors. They were mostly Merchants and Sea People.
I feel like Hannibal's brain worked like this: he thought defeat began in the mind. So even though Carthage was clearly weaker after his father's war than Rome, he realized this created an opportunity. They were strong but overconfident. Victory can make you weak and Hannibal exploited this. He did what the Romans would never expect over and over. What he did not expect himself is that he could inflict appalling defeats on the Romans over and over and they would simply refuse to back down because they couldn't process the concept. This was a cultural difference he simply didn't understand; Carthage and most other ancient people's like the Greeks had a "yeah we lost we'll get 'em next time" attitude. To the Romans (of the period) it was total victory or destruction. Unacceptable even insane loses didn't phase them because they didn't even think of the concept of capitulation.
I would like to remind all the supporters of Carthage and Hannibal one thing The Carthaginians attacted Italy and Rome , first I don't think that Carthage ever realize that Rome wasn't a city state anymore... and ,a part from Rome, also the Greeks of Sicily were against Carthage
Yes the Romans were stubborn for not backing down but I believe that Romans were just more strategically minded than Hanibal was and more ruthless. They couldn't beat Carthage on the battlefield in Italy instead adopting the Fabian strategy of starving Hannibal of victory wearing his army in Italy down while attacking carthages own territories giving Rome a chance to raise new and train new legions that would be experienced veterans by the battle of zama. The Roman navy blockaded carthage trade and used diplomacy to keep Macedonian states out of the war. Hanibal was the stuborn one because he spent another decade in Italy growing weak after the battle of Cannae refusing to accept that he had failed to defeat Rome and failing to understand that Rome was ruthlessly refusing to fight his War.
@@jmcfintona999 Undoubtedly Fabius is a legend. Most Romans hated him though for his (smart) responses to Hannibal's moves. They wanted decisive victory. It can not be doubted the Romans were rocked on their heels by Hannibal though; the difference is they had the power to regroup where as Hannibal was mostly cut off with out support from Carthage. And then the Young Scipio emerged who had studied Hannibal closely, realized where his power base came from, and how to close with him on the battlefield effectively.
@@BrettCagwin49ers people talk of Hanibal as one of the greatest generals but they ignore the strategic brilliance of fabius. Who else in that postion would have thought to cede the battlefield to hannibal and instead starve and conquer carthaginian lands. The Romans also had to make moves to keep the Alexanderian successor kingdoms from aiding hanibal or invading Italy. Big mistake on the part of the Greeks.
Yes u r right..there has been wars but there r couple of empires which was built without war like Maurya Empire in Akhand Bharat... Acharya Chanakya was the one who defeated the Nanda Dynasty without having a battle which even Alexander couldn't even defeat him😁😁👍👍🙏🙏
Hannibal is one of at least ELEVEN people to hold the title of "Rome's Worst Nightmare". But shockingly, Hannibal was NOT the first. That honor belongs to the first guy to EVER sack Rome: Brennus. The Eleven Nightmares of Rome are (in chronological order): -Brennus -Hannibal -Viriathas -Spartacus -Vercingetorix -Arminius -Boudicca -Fritigern -Alaric -Atilla -Geiseric
@@krishnavchowdhry1437 Nero was a good emperor to Rome. He just got his infamy on his Christian persecution and invading Israel due to them starting to rebel other then his mother causing him to go insane.
@B Whit Cleopatra doesn't really belong on that list. She wasn't really a "Nightmare" of Rome, but more a principal ally to certain Roman individuals, namely Caesar and Antony. And you can NOT leave off Alaric, the man who sacked Rome in 410 AD.
Some of the person you mentioned doesn't qualify as a "nightmare" for Rome. Vercingetorix, Arminius and Boudicca (among others) were all fighting a defensive war. Neither of them couldn't even think of attacking Rome or any other place lying in Italian peninsula. Their victories were undoubtedly brilliant, but unlike Hannibal or Brennus, Rome *never* faced any existential threat from them. So they simply couldn't be considered as Rome's worst "nightmare".
@@mihawks_pupil All true, but Hannibal's major problem was that his strategy was battle-centric. And when a select few Romans figured that out (Fabius Maximus and Scipio Africanus), they pushed for denying him what he needed most to win, and it worked. Hannibal became a case of "the best way to fight is to not fight at all".
@@unknownbutknown332 Napoleon fought against great powers in the Europe. He wants to make France the greatest power in Europe also He wants to do something for them. He have better morals and ethics bro
Yes the land maybe but not you guys.. Carthaginians were Massacred down to the last child and the few remaining were sold into slavery far away from Carthage.. You people are not the decendant of Phoenicians.
@@kysike666 Yes but majority of Carthaginian citizen were local from the region not Phoenicians, the Phoenicians were the elite who had the higher positions but the rest were Berber for the area were Cartage were build, you can't cut Roman history from the Italians e.g because 70% of them were not related to Roman ancestors. + the Roman build Cartage once again the city were mostly mixed mostly local Berber and the rest from the Mediterranean some Tunisian until today had Italian _(Romans DNA)_ and very few had Phoenician, And most of remaining of sailors bodies of the Carthaginian ships in bottom of the sea,were belong to Berber DNA's. In today's political _(Nationalizes)_ point view of this looks shocking to some, but DNA traces never lies.
It's one of those questions right up there with Alexander as an old man gazing out at the ocean from the coast of Gaul. One of the problems is that NO unitary state has EVER survived comparible damage like that Hannible inflicted on the Republic. The Roman's had a huge population by the standards of the day. Combined with the best army on the planet. We also tend to forget that the city (which would have looked very different Greek influences a lot less) was a formidable fortress. I personally think more support in the second half of the 15 years he was in Italy COULD have changed the outcome. We read in the Roman's own accounts that they were struggling with manpower and food shortages. He was already the national boogeyman by this time, and they hesitated to close with his main body in southern Italy. More armies raised by carthage and (just for example) sent to the Spanish front - might have turned the tide.... Its a continuous position. Given the Romans strength. I also think it's similar to British and French recognition to the CSA. Perhaps the Federals still "win"....but its a "ragged end". Perhaps a partially changed outcome.
RIP to all the Elephants and Mules and Horses and other animals used in warfare by the barbaric species known as Homosapiens. A savage species if there ever was one.
To all the uneducated hypocrites claiming Hannibal was black... Hannibal was a Carthaginian of Phoenician descent. Carthage is located in current Tunisia, and Phoenicia is the current Levant, which comprises the countries of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. Do a quick Google search for images of Tunisians and Levantines, and see if they are black. Sure, they aren't very white, but they are much closer to Europeans than Sub-Saharan Africans. But I won't base my entire argument on Google searches. I have history and geography to further prove my point. The Sahara desert is a huge, sparsely populated, nearly impassable geographical barrier, greatly hindering migration from North Africa to the rest of the continent. On the other hand, North Africa is connected to Southern Europe and the Middle East through the Mediterranean Sea: a large, easily navigable body of water. Ships were the fastest and cheapest method of transport for all of human history until the advent of planes, so what do you think is more likely to happen: Southern Europeans, Levantines and North Africans intermixing and acquiring a similar phenotype, or Sub-Saharans migrating all the way through the Sahara to get there? Besides, there were many advanced civilizations on the Mediterranean coast with the capabilities to provide transportation for such migrations and population intermixing. Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, was mostly a primitive tribal society (note, *mostly*) until the middle ages and the European colonization, as a direct result of its isolation due to the Sahara. Of course, there were blacks in the Mediterranean region, coming in mostly from Egypt through the Nile or through Arabia from the Red Sea, but they were, and still are, a small minority in that area. Claiming Hannibal was black merely because he was African is a blatant display of ignorance and racism. Instead, why don't you take pride in *actual* black historical figures, like Mansa Musa, Mvemba a Nzinga, Shaka Zulu..?
@@haroldgarner9069 no it was not, it was an Republic. When the first punic war started, Rome was barely holding the Latin Peninsula. By the End of the 3rd punic war, Rome had conquered some greek areas, like Marseille, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily and the coastal areas of iberian Carthage
@@RicardoPerez-rz8pu Hebrews were the 12 tribes of Israel from the Bible. Phoenicians or caananites were the people they defeated when they took over the land of Israel. They were the people most famous for doing cannibalism rituals with their gods. That’s where the name came from. Hannibal wasn’t a Canaanite though since he wasn’t born in Caanan. The Hebrews were scared of them since they were very intimidating looking and the ones who refused to settle in Canaan wondered around the wilderness for 25 more years.
@@psychedelicpayroll5412 I think that's Hebrew propaganda from the Old Testament or sth. The Phoenicians were great traders and explorers, they formed colonies and gave the alphabet to Europeans. They had a remarkable culture more based on commerce and diplomacy than war. They hardly sound like "cannibalistic". The name probably derives from the Romans using it as a "boogie man" stereotype for hundreds of years after Hannibal and Carthage ceased to exist.
@@psychedelicpayroll5412 The Phoenicians came from the Canaanites and the Canaanites were black. Canaan was from Ham. Hannibal and the ancient Egyptians were black you racist losers! Ham literally means black and he was the progenitor of ALL Africans according to Genesis. So I'll believe the Bible over racist white people any day. And yes Hebrews were black too.
@@XmrcaptainbobX north african dont have those features. a little research would show thaf clearly. Besides he was phoenician anyway. the people he ruled over were berbers and not black.
Yes, like in the case of Alexander and Philip II, the father laid the foundation for the "miracles" of their sons. Also in both cases in popular knowledge both are eclipsed by their son.
@@2Turnt2Handle libyans are not black look at ex President Gaddafi isnt black either 'Hannibal may have been darker-skinned than a Roman, but he would not have been described as Ethiopian. Hannibal came from an area referred to as northern Africa, from a Carthaginian family. The Carthaginians were Phoenicians, which means that they would conventionally be described as a Semitic people.17 Aug 2019' even Numidian Cavalry used by Hannibal who were from more southern regions of north africa were berber not black Hannibal was olive/brown skin 100 percent dont make up stuff
@@2Turnt2Handle Lol he wasn't. They were Phoenicians, a people coming from the Levant. There's also a lot of evidence of intermarriages with Eurasian peoples(various wves between 35000-20000 years ago and then again around 3250-2500 years ago) and even DNA evidence(from tombs where Phoenicians were buried) that shows that they had skin of "light pigmentation, black eyes and black hair".
I am amazed by comments here and amount of ignorance from people that dont know north African history and who inhabited it since mesolitic era. Look up amazigh people of north Africa like f.e kabyle people of Algeria. Also basic understanding who built Carthage and settled it in 8th century. Hannibal was descendants of settlers from today Lebanon that spoke semitic language. So bottom line there is no whitwashing here rather atempt from comment section to blackwash Hannibal for various reasons.
Mikligaedur...ALL evidence and common sense overwhelmingly confirms ancient north Africans as black,not your illogical ridiculous racist idiocy.The Caucasus mountains are NOT in Africa
@@matiusbond6052 Are sure what you are spouting here as they're both historical records and DNA studies that back my argument. Pretty much all coins from Carthage Empire and Numidia depicts mediterranean caucasians so clearly they were not subsaharan African 2500 years ago.
Phoenician (modern Lebanon) specifically is what i've always gotten when looking into it. I don't see how that's white washing to some when it's the most popular answer
Hannibal may have been darker-skinned than a Roman, but he would not have been described as Ethiopian. Hannibal came from an area referred to as northern Africa, from a Carthaginian family. The Carthaginians were Phoenicians, which means that they would conventionally be described as a Semitic people. But whatever he is dead. So now he is a dust man.
i think when talking about ancient people, it is silly to focus on skin complexion. afterall skin color is not a determinant for race. Hannibal was Carthaginian, Carthaginians were originally Phoenicians...hence they are not native africans like the Numidians, Libyans etc of the time
@@zeninimoni4205 not exactly true. Just becauae they expanded as an empire doesn't mean that they were ever quite as sound. Damage was done that would ultimately lead to internal collapse
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08:29 Hannibal Barca, depicted as Eddie Murphy from A Vampire in Brooklyn lol. In all seriousness I love these series about Carthage, and the various depictions. Whether you believe he was Nubian, Tunisian, Caucasion, or Central Asian in appearance, it's an impressive presentation to see each depiction in one video. The retelling of the story is compelling and informative, thank you for this.
@@matiusbond6052 As it wrong as would be for Carthaginians to be shown to be other than Phoenicians, of whom we know what they looked like thanks to their DNA.
@@matiusbond6052 eh, doesn't make sense IRL, but it's at least an interesting thought experiment - "What would it look like if Romans were "x instead of y?"
@Alpha omega Ilc. He simply was born in Africa, but that isn't his ancestry. He and his people are of Phoenician descent, genetics don't change by simply migrating to another continent.
Just so you know, Hannibal were heavily carried by the Numidian cavalries Most of his victories and encirclement tactics were thanks to those remarkable cavalries. And once they switched side, Hannibal immediately lose a battle
If we gonna use your analogy about hannibal, let me ask you this Can juliu caesar conquered gaul without roman heavy infantery? Can alexander the great conquered persia without macedonian phalangites? Can chanragupta defeat seleucus without his elephant? Can Yi Shun Shin defeat japanese without his turtle ship? Hannibal remember as one of the greates tactician of history, yet here you are claiming his overrated because he use his greatest strengh againts his enemy weakness
@@siriusblackwhitebuffalo7370 I'm guessing u think Hannibal was a black guy eh? Kinda like how "Troy fall of a city" portrayed Achilles a GREEK as a black guy because well black ppl need to be as renown I suppose as whites?
The Phoenicians came from the Canaanites and the Canaanites were black. Canaan was from Ham. Hannibal and the ancient Egyptians were black you racist losers! Ham literally means black and he was the progenitor of ALL Africans according to Genesis. So I'll believe the Bible over racist white people any day.
@@ag7dragonfly Carthaginians aren't pure canaanites the mixed with the native north africans called the amazigh also known as berbers which have brown some what light skin so you cant really say his a canaan he is of the Carthaginian race which is a mix of both canaanites and amazigh I'm Tunisian which is modren day carthage and we learn about this history alot so your some what right but not 100%
@@GunnerGiggles Dude been spamming comment threads about the vid being racist because Hannibal was drawn white and stuff. It's kind of sad to see, tbh.
I disagree this is a video about Hannibal but they have a white man on the cover picture, this is common white supremacy, they all do little things like this, so it doesn’t seem like much on an individual level, but they all do it, so it’s actually on a huge level and has been their agreement to do so for a thousand years…
@@fraterrr6560 Not a white man, that is how you personally choose to interpret him(which shows your very strong bias just like your ideological rhetoric does). Rather that the man with a lightly pigmented complexure as he is shown, which is accurate according to the DNA-analysis performed on quite a few remains of Phoenicians/Canaanites(ancestors of Carthaginians) and Carthaginians themselves: -"Who were the Canaanites? New insight from 73 ancient genomes." ScienceDaily, 28 May 2020 -Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences, volume 101, issue 2, page 274-282, 3 august, 2017 -The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant, Cell, volume 181, issue 5, p. 1146-1157, may 28 2020
@@mr.2083 i WILL BE STRAIGHT FOWARD AND FACTUAL!!!! THERE WERE NO CAUCASIAN EMPIRES IN ANCIENT AFRICA,PERIOD!!!! th WHITEWASHED VIDEOS ARE BEING EXPOSED.Noted anthropologists have long ago examined Carthage cemetaries ALL WERE BLACK.,AS all other evidence confirms.When Africans built Carthage in 846 bc ROME DIDN'T EVEN EXIST,and Europeans and Mid Easterners wer only hunter gatherers.
@@matiusbond6052 Once agian, you can write in caps all you want, doesn't make the BS tou write any less of a lie. The very own bodies of Carthaginians disprove your personal opinions. Anthropologists together with other researchers and historians did in fact examine Carthaginian/Phoenician remains and that together with the very own DNA of those peoples showed them to be of a "lightly pigmented complexure". Their very own bodies and DNA refute you claim.
@@matiusbond6052 You also seem to be severely misinformed about history of other ancient peoples as by the time you speak of they were already pretty advanced as archeology shows. No matter how much you fantasize and no matter the lies you come up with, you can't change history and you can't change the DNA of the people that lived it
"My beautiful son! You are born in a momentous destiny! You shall be Rome's greatest enemy! You'll tear Rome limb from limb! You'll burn their pathetic city into the ground! You'll slaughter their people! Men, women, and children! My child! You are VENGEANCE!" -Hamilcar Barca (Oversimplified)
@@enricomanno8434 you said "in italian language". italian is not latin. there are similarities and they are related languages but not the same. all the research on this shows i did shows this exact sentence :" hannibal ad portas". if you think it's false then feel free to prove me wrong with sources ofc. i'd be happy to change my mind.
@@idirbouchdoug1567 I never said that it is false but it is easy to understand the Latin word..ad portas.. which has nothing to do with Ports or Sea harbour
If great generals were compared to Icarus, you would be tempted to say that he didn't quite fly as high as long because those wings made of wax and plumes also had to carry all those elephants!
The Phoenicians came from the Canaanites and the Canaanites were black. Canaan was from Ham. Hannibal and the ancient Egyptians were black you racist losers! Ham literally means black and he was the progenitor of ALL Africans according to Genesis. So I'll believe the Bible over racist white people any day.
@@ag7dragonfly None of that is true. The Bible was written by middle easterners who are brown. The Canaanites are modern day Lebanese people, and they’re definitely not black. Stop trying to steal other people’s history. Your views are disgustingly Eurocentric. Christianity is a recent introduction to sub Saharan Africa (outside Ethiopia). My ancestors were not Christian so why should what the Bible says matter to me? I know what my ancestors believed and it was nothing to do with the Bible.
@@joelkoffi2806 I’m not the one trying to claim other people’s history as my own. I am African and I know my own history very well. Stealing other people’s history makes you look very insecure about your own. Your views betray self-hatred and eurocentrism. Instead of engaging with Africans and our actual history, you’d rather claim random Middle Easterners are African and ignore African history. Why? Because white people told you that the Bible was the word of God. My ancestors weren’t Christian and neither am I. What the Bible says matters little to me.
@@ag7dragonfly The original settlers of Carthage were Phoenicians, they came from the Mediterranean coast of what’s now Lebanon and Syria. In ancient tradition, the Phoenicians migrated to the area from “the Red Sea”at some point in the distant past - but the one written account is confusing because the author sometimes uses “Red Sea” the way we do and sometimes uses it to mean what we’d call the Persian Gulf. Since Phoenician was a Northwest Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew, it’s more likely that the Red Sea in question is ours. In any case they would resemble modern Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians and Sephardi Jews: modern genetic studies use haplogroup J2 as a proxy for this rough grouping. It shows a noticeable concentration in the eastern Mediterranean, but there are also strong traces in coastal North Africa where the old Carthaginian empire was centered. For the 30th time Hannibal was not black and NEVER WILL BE
The Phoenicians came from the Canaanites and the Canaanites were black. Canaan was from Ham. Hannibal and the ancient Egyptians were black you racist losers! Ham literally means black and he was the progenitor of ALL Africans according to Genesis. So I'll believe the Bible over racist white people any day. And yes Hebrews were black too.
@@ag7dragonfly most of guys like you protestants or Catholic you believe in one of our God was also black, Lord Hare Krishna 😊😊 and i am also black and i am proud of it 😊😊❤️❤️
Hannibal was phoecian so his heritage was lebenese...lebenese geno is spread among syrians and jordanians and palestinians as well being arab they spread to north africa and southern spain and sicily hence why they look similar dark features olive skin
@@bluelotusnefertoum2144 They weren't, we have sampled their DNA many, many times, not once were there genes discovered with an association with black skin, rather the opposite just genes associated with a lightly pigmented skin.
@@dyingstarsshinebrightest1640 The obvious LOGICAL TRUTH is within social media NOT whitewashed videos. Carthage and all ancient Africa were black and brown people of their native lands.
@@Thr3egod Very wrong, Carthaginians were originally Phoenicians and a very large part of the population was still ethnically and genetically Phoenicians during the Punic wars. Meaning that although Carthage was a meltingpot of various ethnicities the majority still resembled/looked like people from the middle east. Representation is important, therefore one should look into the history unbiased and solely make conclusions if the information supports it. Not turn and twist it because you want it to support your political views.
@@mr.2083 you read your history from books. I recall my history from memory. We are not on the same page, figuratively speaking obviously... but you can keep going as much as you like its good to know what you people are thinking
@@1986tessie There is that though ironically it isn’t much different than doing that to people who weren’t anything like what most Western media or Asian media portrays people
I often question whether the heroics and the noise about Hannibal is really worth it or not.. A. Crossing the Alps is brilliant.. UNTIL you see the casualties! about half of the army was died crossing the mountains. Was it worth it? that's a question that is hard to answer in the 21th century. Maybe building a fleet was more effective than throwing half of the army to their deaths, while demoralizing and tiring the other half? Because as readers of the history, we know it wasn't worth it. Carthage lost the war in the end, and this crossing might have been the main reason why. B. Not conquering Rome is exactly as Maharabal said, not knowing how to use a victory. Rome is a fortress yes, but wasn't the whole purpose of this campaign is conquering Rome? Rome after Cannae battle was at its weakest point. In his defense, the lack of siege equipment was a valid reason to stall the thought, but stalling apparently costed him Carthage itself, as apparently that gave Rome all the time she needed to rebuild its annihilated army. C. Hannibal is celebrated and seen as great by the Romans themselves, but isn't that a good propaganda story for Rome itself? "We are the ones that defeated the general that marched thousands of miles, crossed the Alps and was miles away from our Republic's annihilations, but at the darkest hour of Rome's history, we rose and defeated the boogeyman and submitted his homeland after he was just on the gates of our city". This story sure did build the Romans reputation and helped them on their Empire expansion in the following decades after the Punic wars. Afterall, the republic at this point of history is a fraction of its greatness couple of centuries later. D. If you look at it abstractly, At the start: Carthage, starts a war to conquer Rome. At the end: Carthage was hamulated in the treaty and basically put Carthage under Roman Protectorate. If you have one of the greatest leaders in the history, how could this be the outcome of your reign? We come from the future, We know the result of each of Hannibal's decision but he didn't at that time. But shouldn't "one of the greatest generals in the history" have predicted the possible outcomes of his actions?
building a fleet would have been suicide . roans had naval superiority on the mediterranean sea after the 1st punic war. to gage how good a move is you see the casualities vs what it won him. and that move alone won him the next few battle due to the surprise factor alone , he caught the romans with their pants down. the only other safe ways into roman territory were heavily guarded and forced a direct conflict with the romans with no room for craftiness. Roman were nigh impossible to beat in a direct brawl. sieging was not an option. that and hannibal received no help from carthage. throughout his campaign. a war has a lot more to it than its generals. no matter how great of a general you are you cannot beat a whole empire / republic by yourself without support. the roman generals had all the support they can get and kept losing every time . and the romans had all that time to atudy hannibal's way of war and counter. and they were finally able to do so to a severely weakened hannibal army at the battle of zama. show me one general in human history that fought a superpower of the time alone , in their own territory , with 1 army without resupplies or support with a less trained army of mercenaries and almost won against one of the strongest nations in human history even then. I'll wait.
@@idirbouchdoug1567 Yes, but even Scipio didn't have support from the Senate in the battle of Zama. They didn't give him any legion for the expedition to Carthage because they wanted him to fight Hannibal in Italy instead, Scipio had to recruit his army privately and work his way to gain access to the Numedian cavalry - Hannibal's secret weapon. Both Nations had other priorities and other fronts to think about, such as Spain and Sicily, they couldn't just go all-in for 1 person and risk others falling into the hands of the enemy.
@@macobuzi true , but being stranded in italy for more than adecade and winning multiple significant battles despite being trapped and with no supplies or rei forcements is more impressive imo. You can clearly see the lack of support for hanni al by the fact that he only had to lose a battle once to lose everything while rome kept coming back devastating loss after devastating loss.
Hanible and his father did not Sacrifice humans as the Greeks and Romans did. One of the reasons that they were so persistent to enter Rome was the moral turpitude of human Sacrifice by Europe France Franco.
Hannibal was not black, he certainly looked like modern Tunisians. Africa is not a small island but a huge continent with lot of diversity. And we north-africans, Berbers or Egyptians, are not black.
Bro, I am also an African - from Kenya. We know that Hannibal was not black like Southern Saharan Africans, and we don’t feel the need to claim he was to make ourselves feel better (for what reason, I don’t know). The people who claim that Hannibal, the Egyptians, and other random historical figures were black tend to be African Americans, and they tend to be part of some weird cult known as the Black Hebrew Israelites. These people have basically been brainwashed. So don’t be offended by these clowns who try to claim your history as their own, they do not represent the vast majority of black people. In a way, it’s a testament to the grandness of the ancient Egyptian civilisation that so many have tried to claim it as their own (including the Nazis who claimed all the great ancient civilizations were started by ‘Aryans’). So many are still in awe at the achievements your ancient ancestors accomplished that some don’t even believe that ancient humans were capable of doing what they did - instead claiming ‘aliens’ are responsible. I once read a quote that said, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.” Modern science tells us that the universe is limited, but no scientific evidence yet exists for the finite limitation of human stupidity. The black Hebrew Israelites, on the other hand, are merely one more example of the boundless nature of human ignorance. ✌🏿
He was of Middle Eastern descent ffs, not black. He wasn't the first to use elephants either. The Indians and the Diadochi had been doing it centuries before him.
Why do they white wash everything? These characters doesn't look anything like the Coins and the original paintings. Hannibal was a Dark Skinned African. I hate racism. You guys are wrong for false propaganda.
"New Netflix Original series "New West"! What if Hannibal of Carthage conquered Rome? Where would we be now?" Maybe have pop culture cameos of where they might be in an alternate timeline, Hulk Hogan appears as a guy selling mattresses, Queen Latifah appears as one of those no nonsense street merchants who both sells and kills the bird right there on the spot like its just a casual "whatever" thing, Will Smith slaps a camel and promptly gets mauled in the background, Rowan Atkinson and Mr Beast are farmers who are neighbors who hate and prank eachother, Macaulay Culkin and Mark Hammil are philosophers at a university having a heated debate that turns into a brawl, Elvis founded "Presley" and thats their worlds Disney but he still died from heart problems and eating "Fools Golden Loaf" which was apparently something he liked. Little cameos. Also, if you are wondering what "Fools Golden Loaf" is I'll save you the search, its roughly 8000 kcal of "sandwich" and its made by the Colorado Mine Company which is a restaurant in Denver Colorado. It is made of, and I quote: 1 warmed single hollowed out loaf of bread filled with 1 Jar of creamy peanut butter, 1 jar of grape jelly and 1 pound (450 g) of bacon in the middle. (thats not a sandwich, thats diabetes warmed over)
@@mikligardur9104 Well, he one of the reasons he was defeated was that 1. Carthage didn't really support him while he was rampaging through Italy 2. The battle that he lost he was outnumbered and had command of men that were very much of inferiour quality.
@@ulrichkristensen4087 DIdn't say anything in contrast to that, simply mentioned some of the facts underlying his defeat. I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree here In Italy he simply didn't receive the support he needed to actually win the war. Though he did a very fine job with what he had. And by the time he was recalled to Carthage (leaving most of his troops in Italy), he was put in control of an army of much lesser quality than the battle hardened troops he led in Italy. All factors beyond his control, but never the less he put up a better fight than most other great generals could have. However one cannot overlook the factors that are in a (great) part responsible for the defeat he suffered.
No. No he wasn’t. Interesting how you don’t link to those cooks you claim prove he was black. He would probably have been darker than a Roman but not black like a sub Saharan African. You don’t need to steal someone else’s history, bro, it makes you look insecure about your own. Why do you even feel the need to define yourself through the lens of European history? Isn’t that a bit Eurocentric?
Hannibal and Carthaginians were Phoenicians which came from todays Liban region ...they were not African nor European , they were Mediterranean.....that is the truth, and all you racists can take it easy now....the white and the black can not exist without the othet ( how would you know what white is if there was no black or vice- versa)
It's Occultism Doctors versus Healer Doctors, not in the Colosseum of Caesar but the venue shall be on the world stage, it's about who cares and who cares not. Let it be
Now *that* is a quote.. "I shall either find a way, or make one" -- Hannibal Barca circa 221 BC
Do you not mean 221BC? 😂
I remember the first time I read his story in the history lessons from the sixth grade. I almost cried! Such a hero. Salutes!
@@uselesshero.official he wasn't a hero or a villain tough. Carthage were just as bad as Rome just Rome won
@@kaihiggins725 and massacred and caused genocide to Carthage. He may not be your hero but he's definitely a hero for Carthage.
@@uselesshero.official they didn't cause genocide at all. The simply won and thousands died. Do you know how many Roman's Carthage killed? Hundreds of thousands so your talking out your own arse
Hannibal wasn't scared of anything ,. His father made him swear to be an enemy of rome on blood for the rest of his life , he marched a whole army to Italy through the alpes which he lost nearly half of , He stayed in their Land for 14 years never lost a Battle to them with a single army and without any reinforcements from Carthage other than The galic tribes nor supplies from his country living of the land , he won major victories against them , Even once they encircled him in a valley he marched through the darkness of night while making them chase Fire attached to horns of cattle and then later Ambushed the Roman detachment sent to ambush him , He ambushed a whole roman army at trasimane which till this day remains the biggest and most successful ambush in the history of warfare , He won an unbelievable Victory at cannea outnumbered till the last moments of the battle , Fighting in the front with his men with one eye which resulted in the greatest Loss of humane life in a single day through the history of battles and warfare , He is the General that is more intimidating and Greater then even some kings Napoleon really considered him one of the best tacticians and he truly was , he made the rommans live in fear for 14 years , he didn't need the Great of The Conqueror added to his name , His name was enough to make anyone have chills Hannibal Barca , yet he is Super underrated
straight beast. he only had one eye?
One eye! I think a bee sting was the reason.
@@luciousbattlecat2618 No it was the swamps he got an infection in his eye not a bee sting
@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 I think your right. It happened after he made it through the alps
He sounds like the type of war leader Spartacus would've been had he been a free man. Which he was still able to bring the Romans to their knees with a handful of refugee slaves. Had he won the third servile war history would be drastically different.
A moment of Silence for all the soldiers in history that died to fatigue before participating in any battles.
And all that died of rain, cold, disease
@@AliHasan2-v9e And from the heat, treachery, and from starving to death.
@@SteveSmith-ty8ko and and and
I got nothing in my mind😂😂
@@कश्परैना dysentery?
That would be an annoying death.
Hannibal was a true leader and a true leader can even make his enemies respected him
Thanks bro
Yep.. back in the day great generals.. even great kings.. fought right atbthe vanguard of the battle... not miles behind the battle in a tent like today. That's how they inspired loyalty. Hannible was the kind of guy who would be scaling the walls of a city, takingvarrow fire, right beside the mist common foot soldier
Now that’s a good quote. “A true leader can make even his enemies respect him.”
@@XmrcaptainbobX here is the weird kid who growls In class again.
Nowadays, North Africa is full of leaders like him or even bettee tham him.
"I am the one who knocks" -Hannibal at the gates probably
Hannibal Heisenberg
BLM! All Lives Matter and Men,Women and Children,Deserve Respect!!!
Poor Hannibal, gifted and commanding in the battle field but representing a nation of Merchants with unreliable allies. He won numerous battles along the way but the campaign took too long and was too expensive and costly. He almost won a victory against the odds.
This is kind of close to the Leonidas story
He wasn't as gifted as kaddafi was.
@@lovepeace1552Different! Sparta was a Kingdom of warriors. Every child was raised to be a Warrior. Not Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire). Phoenicians spread like merchants all around the Mediterranean Sea since they emerged in Levante (Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria) in 3000BC. They only entered Egypt as traders around 1100BC. In its peak around 1250BC the Carthaginian Empire spread trade ports from Malta to Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia where they built Carthage, Argelia, Morocco and the South of the Iberian Peninsula. They're considered the first rukers of the Mediterranean Sea, before Greeks and Persians. But not 'cause they were Warriors. They were mostly Merchants and Sea People.
I feel like Hannibal's brain worked like this: he thought defeat began in the mind. So even though Carthage was clearly weaker after his father's war than Rome, he realized this created an opportunity. They were strong but overconfident. Victory can make you weak and Hannibal exploited this. He did what the Romans would never expect over and over. What he did not expect himself is that he could inflict appalling defeats on the Romans over and over and they would simply refuse to back down because they couldn't process the concept. This was a cultural difference he simply didn't understand; Carthage and most other ancient people's like the Greeks had a "yeah we lost we'll get 'em next time" attitude. To the Romans (of the period) it was total victory or destruction. Unacceptable even insane loses didn't phase them because they didn't even think of the concept of capitulation.
That trait of theirs is both the their greatest strength and weakness
I would like to remind all the supporters of Carthage and Hannibal one thing
The Carthaginians attacted Italy and Rome , first
I don't think that Carthage ever realize that Rome wasn't a city state anymore... and ,a part from Rome, also the Greeks of Sicily were against Carthage
Yes the Romans were stubborn for not backing down but I believe that Romans were just more strategically minded than Hanibal was and more ruthless. They couldn't beat Carthage on the battlefield in Italy instead adopting the Fabian strategy of starving Hannibal of victory wearing his army in Italy down while attacking carthages own territories giving Rome a chance to raise new and train new legions that would be experienced veterans by the battle of zama. The Roman navy blockaded carthage trade and used diplomacy to keep Macedonian states out of the war. Hanibal was the stuborn one because he spent another decade in Italy growing weak after the battle of Cannae refusing to accept that he had failed to defeat Rome and failing to understand that Rome was ruthlessly refusing to fight his War.
@@jmcfintona999 Undoubtedly Fabius is a legend. Most Romans hated him though for his (smart) responses to Hannibal's moves. They wanted decisive victory. It can not be doubted the Romans were rocked on their heels by Hannibal though; the difference is they had the power to regroup where as Hannibal was mostly cut off with out support from Carthage. And then the Young Scipio emerged who had studied Hannibal closely, realized where his power base came from, and how to close with him on the battlefield effectively.
@@BrettCagwin49ers people talk of Hanibal as one of the greatest generals but they ignore the strategic brilliance of fabius. Who else in that postion would have thought to cede the battlefield to hannibal and instead starve and conquer carthaginian lands. The Romans also had to make moves to keep the Alexanderian successor kingdoms from aiding hanibal or invading Italy. Big mistake on the part of the Greeks.
The empire was not built peacefully? Name me one that was.
Yes u r right..there has been wars but there r couple of empires which was built without war like Maurya Empire in Akhand Bharat... Acharya Chanakya was the one who defeated the Nanda Dynasty without having a battle which even Alexander couldn't even defeat him😁😁👍👍🙏🙏
@@कश्परैना that's called a bloodless coup
Exactly !!
Maurya Empire was made through peaceful coalition
@Baby Sama 712 Thats the expansion of Marya Empire under Ashoka. Not the initial empire under Chandra Gupta.
Hannibal almost got the job done. Just like Spartacus the Gladiator. Both instilled fear among the Romans.
Spartacus came nearly 300 years after Hannibal. He was the first to truly weaken Rome
Hannibal is one of at least ELEVEN people to hold the title of "Rome's Worst Nightmare". But shockingly, Hannibal was NOT the first. That honor belongs to the first guy to EVER sack Rome: Brennus. The Eleven Nightmares of Rome are (in chronological order):
-Brennus
-Hannibal
-Viriathas
-Spartacus
-Vercingetorix
-Arminius
-Boudicca
-Fritigern
-Alaric
-Atilla
-Geiseric
plus some emperors also nero commodus
@@krishnavchowdhry1437 Nero was a good emperor to Rome. He just got his infamy on his Christian persecution and invading Israel due to them starting to rebel other then his mother causing him to go insane.
@B Whit Cleopatra doesn't really belong on that list. She wasn't really a "Nightmare" of Rome, but more a principal ally to certain Roman individuals, namely Caesar and Antony. And you can NOT leave off Alaric, the man who sacked Rome in 410 AD.
Some of the person you mentioned doesn't qualify as a "nightmare" for Rome.
Vercingetorix, Arminius and Boudicca (among others) were all fighting a defensive war. Neither of them couldn't even think of attacking Rome or any other place lying in Italian peninsula.
Their victories were undoubtedly brilliant, but unlike Hannibal or Brennus, Rome *never* faced any existential threat from them. So they simply couldn't be considered as Rome's worst "nightmare".
@@mihawks_pupil All true, but Hannibal's major problem was that his strategy was battle-centric. And when a select few Romans figured that out (Fabius Maximus and Scipio Africanus), they pushed for denying him what he needed most to win, and it worked. Hannibal became a case of "the best way to fight is to not fight at all".
At cannae, Hannibal pulled off possibly the most crazy mind game in all of miltary history
Legend has it that he eats his enemies!
And he does it with class.
That is very funny
With a nice cianti
That's Cannibal Barca you're mistaken.
Pinkies out.
I hate wars, but I can’t deny that I admire Hannibal’s courage just as I admire Alexander the greats bravery
Just as I admire napoleons tactics
@@secretunknown2782 I respect Napoleon Bonaparte a lot actually
@@kikaa1884 why just curious
@@unknownbutknown332 Napoleon fought against great powers in the Europe. He wants to make France the greatest power in Europe also
He wants to do something for them.
He have better morals and ethics bro
@@kikaa1884 Napoleon is the reason people drive on the right hand side of the road, he ruined cars, and for that I hate him.
Carthage it's Tunis today the capital of Tunisia as Tunisian very proud of my history
Yes 👍
Yes the land maybe but not you guys.. Carthaginians were Massacred down to the last child and the few remaining were sold into slavery far away from Carthage.. You people are not the decendant of Phoenicians.
@@kysike666 Yes but majority of Carthaginian citizen were local from the region not Phoenicians, the Phoenicians were the elite who had the higher positions but the rest were Berber for the area were Cartage were build, you can't cut Roman history from the Italians e.g because 70% of them were not related to Roman ancestors.
+ the Roman build Cartage once again the city were mostly mixed mostly local Berber and the rest from the Mediterranean some Tunisian until today had Italian _(Romans DNA)_ and very few had Phoenician,
And most of remaining of sailors bodies of the Carthaginian ships in bottom of the sea,were belong to Berber DNA's.
In today's political _(Nationalizes)_ point view of this looks shocking to some, but DNA traces never lies.
"Hannibal is at the gate" - Rome nightmare
I love courageous people
"Either I find my way or I make one"
If Hannibal Barca had full support from Carthage, would Rome have fallen?
No because Hannibal’s logistics were overstretched by that point so the Romans would revolt until Hannibal just gave up or died
It's one of those questions right up there with Alexander as an old man gazing out at the ocean from the coast of Gaul.
One of the problems is that NO unitary state has EVER survived comparible damage like that Hannible inflicted on the Republic. The Roman's had a huge population by the standards of the day. Combined with the best army on the planet. We also tend to forget that the city (which would have looked very different Greek influences a lot less) was a formidable fortress.
I personally think more support in the second half of the 15 years he was in Italy COULD have changed the outcome. We read in the Roman's own accounts that they were struggling with manpower and food shortages. He was already the national boogeyman by this time, and they hesitated to close with his main body in southern Italy. More armies raised by carthage and (just for example) sent to the Spanish front - might have turned the tide....
Its a continuous position. Given the Romans strength. I also think it's similar to British and French recognition to the CSA. Perhaps the Federals still "win"....but its a "ragged end". Perhaps a partially changed outcome.
Even with full support of Carthage, he cant
But if philip sent some siege engines, he could
@@AndromedaPrima I think that's probably true. Or you could say if Carthage had hired/sent them.
Yes it would’ve
Hannibal you were definitely a warrior that belongs among the greatest 🙌🏼
RIP to all the Elephants and Mules and Horses and other animals used in warfare by the barbaric species known as Homosapiens. A savage species if there ever was one.
If u hate ur species so much... eat a bullet! Then there'll be one less...
@@aaronherring3867 lol
@@aaronherring3867 I bet this person voted for trump
Amen.
@@ddespair I don’t bet , but I know you voted for Obama and Biden
The artwork.
My god,The artwork is immaculate.
To all the uneducated hypocrites claiming Hannibal was black...
Hannibal was a Carthaginian of Phoenician descent. Carthage is located in current Tunisia, and Phoenicia is the current Levant, which comprises the countries of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. Do a quick Google search for images of Tunisians and Levantines, and see if they are black. Sure, they aren't very white, but they are much closer to Europeans than Sub-Saharan Africans.
But I won't base my entire argument on Google searches. I have history and geography to further prove my point.
The Sahara desert is a huge, sparsely populated, nearly impassable geographical barrier, greatly hindering migration from North Africa to the rest of the continent. On the other hand, North Africa is connected to Southern Europe and the Middle East through the Mediterranean Sea: a large, easily navigable body of water.
Ships were the fastest and cheapest method of transport for all of human history until the advent of planes, so what do you think is more likely to happen: Southern Europeans, Levantines and North Africans intermixing and acquiring a similar phenotype, or Sub-Saharans migrating all the way through the Sahara to get there?
Besides, there were many advanced civilizations on the Mediterranean coast with the capabilities to provide transportation for such migrations and population intermixing. Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, was mostly a primitive tribal society (note, *mostly*) until the middle ages and the European colonization, as a direct result of its isolation due to the Sahara.
Of course, there were blacks in the Mediterranean region, coming in mostly from Egypt through the Nile or through Arabia from the Red Sea, but they were, and still are, a small minority in that area.
Claiming Hannibal was black merely because he was African is a blatant display of ignorance and racism. Instead, why don't you take pride in *actual* black historical figures, like Mansa Musa, Mvemba a Nzinga, Shaka Zulu..?
Most people are incredibly ignorant. They barely know who Hannibal was. They get mad when you tell them Cleopatra was Greek.
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Don’t you mean Nightmare of the Roman Republic? It didn’t officially become an Empire until Augustus.
It was an empire, but it wasn't complete until Augustas
It was technically an empire, but was made an official empire in the reign of Augustus
In some game Agustus is not even a legendary hero but elite😂😂
@@haroldgarner9069 no it was not, it was an Republic. When the first punic war started, Rome was barely holding the Latin Peninsula. By the End of the 3rd punic war, Rome had conquered some greek areas, like Marseille, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily and the coastal areas of iberian Carthage
Loved watching the battle movements of Hannibal, he was so clever and so out landish with his tactic's thatno one would ever think of using
Hannibal was a Phoenician descendant. He had a connection with the Hebrews then.
So he's part Rome part Spaniard ?.
@@RicardoPerez-rz8pu Hebrews were the 12 tribes of Israel from the Bible. Phoenicians or caananites were the people they defeated when they took over the land of Israel. They were the people most famous for doing cannibalism rituals with their gods. That’s where the name came from. Hannibal wasn’t a Canaanite though since he wasn’t born in Caanan. The Hebrews were scared of them since they were very intimidating looking and the ones who refused to settle in Canaan wondered around the wilderness for 25 more years.
@@psychedelicpayroll5412 I think that's Hebrew propaganda from the Old Testament or sth. The Phoenicians were great traders and explorers, they formed colonies and gave the alphabet to Europeans. They had a remarkable culture more based on commerce and diplomacy than war. They hardly sound like "cannibalistic". The name probably derives from the Romans using it as a "boogie man" stereotype for hundreds of years after Hannibal and Carthage ceased to exist.
Meaning the true hebrews were black
@@psychedelicpayroll5412 The Phoenicians came from the Canaanites and the Canaanites were black. Canaan was from Ham. Hannibal and the ancient Egyptians were black you racist losers! Ham literally means black and he was the progenitor of ALL Africans according to Genesis. So I'll believe the Bible over racist white people any day. And yes Hebrews were black too.
Hannibal was truly a great commander.
@@XmrcaptainbobX Because he is from north africa.
@@XmrcaptainbobX Because he is from north africa.
@@XmrcaptainbobX Hannibal was not west african.
@@XmrcaptainbobX you know nothing. Carthage was a Phoenician colony… Phoenicia is in the modern Lebanon. Sorry to burst your bubble.
@@XmrcaptainbobX north african dont have those features. a little research would show thaf clearly. Besides he was phoenician anyway. the people he ruled over were berbers and not black.
Because of your voice I have subscribed
Nice But Hamilcar Barca his father was also pretty good as a commander.
Yes, like in the case of Alexander and Philip II, the father laid the foundation for the "miracles" of their sons. Also in both cases in popular knowledge both are eclipsed by their son.
Hannibal turns black at the 8min mark dont know how that can happen on the alps 😂
He was always black.
@@2Turnt2Handle libyans are not black look at ex President Gaddafi isnt black either
'Hannibal may have been darker-skinned than a Roman, but he would not have been described as Ethiopian. Hannibal came from an area referred to as northern Africa, from a Carthaginian family. The Carthaginians were Phoenicians, which means that they would conventionally be described as a Semitic people.17 Aug 2019' even Numidian Cavalry used by Hannibal who were from more southern regions of north africa were berber not black Hannibal was olive/brown skin 100 percent dont make up stuff
@@2Turnt2Handle Lol he wasn't. They were Phoenicians, a people coming from the Levant. There's also a lot of evidence of intermarriages with Eurasian peoples(various wves between 35000-20000 years ago and then again around 3250-2500 years ago) and even DNA evidence(from tombs where Phoenicians were buried) that shows that they had skin of "light pigmentation, black eyes and black hair".
@@salzx5196 uninformed one africans aren't black ..look at the whole continent ..
@@salzx5196 that's one example ..
I am amazed by comments here and amount of ignorance from people that dont know north African history and who inhabited it since mesolitic era.
Look up amazigh people of north Africa like f.e kabyle people of Algeria.
Also basic understanding who built Carthage and settled it in 8th century.
Hannibal was descendants of settlers from today Lebanon that spoke semitic language.
So bottom line there is no whitwashing here rather atempt from comment section to blackwash Hannibal for various reasons.
Mikligaedur...ALL evidence and common sense overwhelmingly confirms ancient north Africans as black,not your illogical ridiculous racist idiocy.The Caucasus mountains are NOT in Africa
@@matiusbond6052
Are sure what you are spouting here as they're both historical records and DNA studies that back my argument. Pretty much all coins from Carthage Empire and Numidia depicts mediterranean caucasians so clearly they were not subsaharan African 2500 years ago.
Phoenician (modern Lebanon) specifically is what i've always gotten when looking into it. I don't see how that's white washing to some when it's the most popular answer
@@alligatorwithwifi6111 it's not even whitewashing by definition. they are middle eastern not european.
Hannibal may have been darker-skinned than a Roman, but he would not have been described as Ethiopian. Hannibal came from an area referred to as northern Africa, from a Carthaginian family. The Carthaginians were Phoenicians, which means that they would conventionally be described as a Semitic people. But whatever he is dead. So now he is a dust man.
i think when talking about ancient people, it is silly to focus on skin complexion. afterall skin color is not a determinant for race. Hannibal was Carthaginian, Carthaginians were originally Phoenicians...hence they are not native africans like the Numidians, Libyans etc of the time
he was not a white man
@AzraeL Mediterranean is a region not a race.
@@jimbean7652 true. indeed he was not white. Phoenicians are not white
Pheonicians are not Semitic. . They are Hamitic. . Meaning they are African people. . Ethiopians are also Hamitic people
I am tunisian and we study Hannibal every year he's our pride
1) he's not OUR pride
2)we don't study him every year
You must be mix with European, Arab, and African! Because we know that Hannibal was of dark Olive complexion! Ask Sicilians, they will tell you!
@@jefferybillings-el5070 Carthagenians were native Africans as was Hannibal
brilliant video
I never realized how much drama there was in ancient history until this documentary turned me into a full-blown history gossip
bravo. very nice documentary. Thanks for the effort
That is a badass nickname: The Nightmare of Rome
@@quidam_surprise like you could come up with a better one?
Hannibal only made Rome stronger...that is the historical fact
@@zeninimoni4205 not exactly true. Just becauae they expanded as an empire doesn't mean that they were ever quite as sound. Damage was done that would ultimately lead to internal collapse
@@zeninimoni4205 yes , after killing 80% of there professionally trained soldiers and taking the roman republic to the verge of destruction.
@@ericpitt-bey157 Rome annihilated Carthage, before Rome was even an empire. Hannibal was good, but he lost his war.
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BEST VIDEO EVER
Hannibal truly was Rome's nightmare. A hero.
08:29 Hannibal Barca, depicted as Eddie Murphy from A Vampire in Brooklyn lol. In all seriousness I love these series about Carthage, and the various depictions. Whether you believe he was Nubian, Tunisian, Caucasion, or Central Asian in appearance, it's an impressive presentation to see each depiction in one video. The retelling of the story is compelling and informative, thank you for this.
He was phonecian, born in Iberia
Andrae Nicholson..How would you consider ancient Romans being shown as Africans?
@@matiusbond6052 As it wrong as would be for Carthaginians to be shown to be other than Phoenicians, of whom we know what they looked like thanks to their DNA.
@@matiusbond6052 eh, doesn't make sense IRL, but it's at least an interesting thought experiment - "What would it look like if Romans were "x instead of y?"
@Alpha omega Ilc. He simply was born in Africa, but that isn't his ancestry.
He and his people are of Phoenician descent, genetics don't change by simply migrating to another continent.
Just so you know, Hannibal were heavily carried by the Numidian cavalries
Most of his victories and encirclement tactics were thanks to those remarkable cavalries.
And once they switched side, Hannibal immediately lose a battle
Nah more due to the fact that carthage lost its reserve and income of silver and couldn't pay their Celtic and Spanish mercenaries.
If we gonna use your analogy about hannibal, let me ask you this
Can juliu caesar conquered gaul without roman heavy infantery?
Can alexander the great conquered persia without macedonian phalangites?
Can chanragupta defeat seleucus without his elephant?
Can Yi Shun Shin defeat japanese without his turtle ship?
Hannibal remember as one of the greates tactician of history, yet here you are claiming his overrated because he use his greatest strengh againts his enemy weakness
Great general exist because they had good soldier, hannibal was great general because he can use his army potential
@@muhammadidham7029 well said..proud of u
@@muhammadidham7029 again..brilliantly put..thats exactly wat he did
The drawings are immaculate!
And inaccurate
@@siriusblackwhitebuffalo7370 I'm guessing u think Hannibal was a black guy eh? Kinda like how "Troy fall of a city" portrayed Achilles a GREEK as a black guy because well black ppl need to be as renown I suppose as whites?
Gladiator the movie 😎👍 I love this channel
Excellent presentation 👏👏👏👏
1. Alexander the Great
2. Julius Caesar
3. Hannibal Barca
Ancient world commanders.
Khaled bin Walid is better than Caesar, being logical
@@tokyo2445 No , Medieval battles were much smaller than battles in Antiquity.
Loved the video and time it took to make it. Just sucks to see the false image and statues of him when we went to Rome a few years back…
Hannibal only selected the best of his troops over for dinner.
The Phoenicians came from the Canaanites and the Canaanites were black. Canaan was from Ham. Hannibal and the ancient Egyptians were black you racist losers! Ham literally means black and he was the progenitor of ALL Africans according to Genesis. So I'll believe the Bible over racist white people any day.
@@ag7dragonfly let me guess your an american?
@@ag7dragonfly Carthaginians aren't pure canaanites the mixed with the native north africans called the amazigh also known as berbers which have brown some what light skin so you cant really say his a canaan he is of the Carthaginian race which is a mix of both canaanites and amazigh I'm Tunisian which is modren day carthage and we learn about this history alot so your some what right but not 100%
@@GunnerGiggles Dude been spamming comment threads about the vid being racist because Hannibal was drawn white and stuff. It's kind of sad to see, tbh.
@@harouna1051 ALL FACTS SHOW ANCIENT NORTH AFRICANS AS BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE OF THEIR NATIVE LANDS
What a warrior. There is always someone greater
Nice vid
The artwork and animation are superb.
I disagree this is a video about Hannibal but they have a white man on the cover picture, this is common white supremacy, they all do little things like this, so it doesn’t seem like much on an individual level, but they all do it, so it’s actually on a huge level and has been their agreement to do so for a thousand years…
@@fraterrr6560 Not a white man, that is how you personally choose to interpret him(which shows your very strong bias just like your ideological rhetoric does). Rather that the man with a lightly pigmented complexure as he is shown, which is accurate according to the DNA-analysis performed on quite a few remains of Phoenicians/Canaanites(ancestors of Carthaginians) and Carthaginians themselves:
-"Who were the Canaanites? New insight from 73 ancient genomes." ScienceDaily, 28 May 2020
-Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences, volume 101, issue 2, page 274-282, 3 august, 2017
-The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant, Cell, volume 181, issue 5, p. 1146-1157, may 28 2020
@@mr.2083 i WILL BE STRAIGHT FOWARD AND FACTUAL!!!! THERE WERE NO CAUCASIAN EMPIRES IN ANCIENT AFRICA,PERIOD!!!! th WHITEWASHED VIDEOS ARE BEING EXPOSED.Noted anthropologists have long ago examined Carthage cemetaries ALL WERE BLACK.,AS all other evidence confirms.When Africans built Carthage in 846 bc ROME DIDN'T EVEN EXIST,and Europeans and Mid Easterners wer only hunter gatherers.
@@matiusbond6052 Once agian, you can write in caps all you want, doesn't make the BS tou write any less of a lie. The very own bodies of Carthaginians disprove your personal opinions. Anthropologists together with other researchers and historians did in fact examine Carthaginian/Phoenician remains and that together with the very own DNA of those peoples showed them to be of a "lightly pigmented complexure". Their very own bodies and DNA refute you claim.
@@matiusbond6052 You also seem to be severely misinformed about history of other ancient peoples as by the time you speak of they were already pretty advanced as archeology shows. No matter how much you fantasize and no matter the lies you come up with, you can't change history and you can't change the DNA of the people that lived it
"My beautiful son!
You are born in a momentous destiny!
You shall be Rome's greatest enemy!
You'll tear Rome limb from limb!
You'll burn their pathetic city into the ground!
You'll slaughter their people!
Men, women, and children!
My child!
You are VENGEANCE!"
-Hamilcar Barca (Oversimplified)
Ohh yeaaa oversimplified
*VENGEANCE*
Roman mothers would continue frighten their unwilling children with the phrase “Hannibal ad Porto” (Hannibal is at the door).
Nope.. Porto in Italian language means Port or sea harbor
Hannibal is at the doors... Annibale è alle porte
@@enricomanno8434 it's in latin not current day italian.
@@idirbouchdoug1567 I think that as an Italian I know both languages because I did studied
@@enricomanno8434 you said "in italian language". italian is not latin. there are similarities and they are related languages but not the same.
all the research on this shows i did shows this exact sentence :" hannibal ad portas".
if you think it's false then feel free to prove me wrong with sources ofc. i'd be happy to change my mind.
@@idirbouchdoug1567 I never said that it is false but it is easy to understand the Latin word..ad portas.. which has nothing to do with Ports or Sea harbour
If great generals were compared to Icarus, you would be tempted to say that he didn't quite fly as high as long because those wings made of wax and plumes also had to carry all those elephants!
Question: why is the steel that Carthagians craft into weapons called "Spanish steel" if Aragon and Castile weren't even joined to make Spain yet?
Iberian Peninsula is already called Hispania by the Romans and Latins.
The Iberian people always were on the Iberian peninsula... The most fertile land of Hispania during Roman time
Hannibal displayed a level of command and control that was nothing short of magical.
Such a great warrior Hannibal was!
Hannibal was a great warrior but a very bad strategiest , because he lost the war at the end ....so says the history
Like kaddafi, you mean?
This is a compilation of the previous videos of Hannibal
A moment of silence for all the soldiers who fought and died in battle for the freedom and future of their children and ancestors.!
Just like American soldiers in recent times who fought for their freedom and future in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
@@yangerjamir0906nah, that was for blood money and oil. Sadly they didn’t realise it.
love all the artwork
22:28 Scipio Africanus, a man so gullible that no enemy could not manipulate him.
He a legend!
Easily one of the most badass people in human history
Hannibals life at the end is sort of sad.
Yep , the end result was a failure of his life dreams of destroying Rome.....
He was hunted down in old age by Rome and murdered when he was no longer a threat to them even I think,
@@Wolfen443 we are not sure how he died.
I love your videos bro 😍 from Philippines
Interesting story💕😘a filipina watching here
When you are early and no intresting comments pop up so you can argue
The Phoenicians came from the Canaanites and the Canaanites were black. Canaan was from Ham. Hannibal and the ancient Egyptians were black you racist losers! Ham literally means black and he was the progenitor of ALL Africans according to Genesis. So I'll believe the Bible over racist white people any day.
@@ag7dragonfly None of that is true. The Bible was written by middle easterners who are brown. The Canaanites are modern day Lebanese people, and they’re definitely not black.
Stop trying to steal other people’s history.
Your views are disgustingly Eurocentric.
Christianity is a recent introduction to sub Saharan Africa (outside Ethiopia). My ancestors were not Christian so why should what the Bible says matter to me? I know what my ancestors believed and it was nothing to do with the Bible.
@@deltapapa130 clearly ignorant ! 😂😂
@@joelkoffi2806 I’m not the one trying to claim other people’s history as my own. I am African and I know my own history very well. Stealing other people’s history makes you look very insecure about your own. Your views betray self-hatred and eurocentrism. Instead of engaging with Africans and our actual history, you’d rather claim random Middle Easterners are African and ignore African history. Why? Because white people told you that the Bible was the word of God. My ancestors weren’t Christian and neither am I. What the Bible says matters little to me.
@@ag7dragonfly The original settlers of Carthage were Phoenicians, they came from the Mediterranean coast of what’s now Lebanon and Syria.
In ancient tradition, the Phoenicians migrated to the area from “the Red Sea”at some point in the distant past - but the one written account is confusing because the author sometimes uses “Red Sea” the way we do and sometimes uses it to mean what we’d call the Persian Gulf. Since Phoenician was a Northwest Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew, it’s more likely that the Red Sea in question is ours. In any case they would resemble modern Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians and Sephardi Jews: modern genetic studies use haplogroup J2 as a proxy for this rough grouping. It shows a noticeable concentration in the eastern Mediterranean, but there are also strong traces in coastal North Africa where the old Carthaginian empire was centered.
For the 30th time Hannibal was not black and NEVER WILL BE
Hannibal, the most famous phoenician. This shld be good: 🍿
phoenician red = tyrian purple.. was Hannibals campaign really a failure? 🤔
@@theScrupulousBerserker yes Carthage was destroyed
“Hannibal.... The Father of Strategy!!”⚔️🛡⚔️
Alexander was the greatest, and Hannibal even said so himself.
no he didn't. we have no definitive proof that that conversation actually took place. @@Vntihero
@@grantwalter2243 Umm yes, we do, just keep denying history, he also put Pyrrhus on his list.
I'm from Hannibal country 🇹🇳
AWESOME!!!🙂❤👍
Next.
"The Story of Scipio: The Nightmare of Hannibal"
Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Alexander, Corona ( in 2020 ) at the gates 🤔🤔
The Phoenicians came from the Canaanites and the Canaanites were black. Canaan was from Ham. Hannibal and the ancient Egyptians were black you racist losers! Ham literally means black and he was the progenitor of ALL Africans according to Genesis. So I'll believe the Bible over racist white people any day. And yes Hebrews were black too.
@@ag7dragonfly Hey, Easy man 😊😊❤️❤️
@@ag7dragonfly most of guys like you protestants or Catholic you believe in one of our God was also black, Lord Hare Krishna 😊😊 and i am also black and i am proud of it 😊😊❤️❤️
Hannibal was phoecian so his heritage was lebenese...lebenese geno is spread among syrians and jordanians and palestinians as well being arab they spread to north africa and southern spain and sicily hence why they look similar dark features olive skin
He is decent of Phoenician and locals in Tunisia ;) and for sure it's olive skin not black , it's our Tunisian Pride
@@sayarihamza224 he is one of my favourite generals he was exceptional in his tactics
The phoenicians were black and so was hannibal
@@bluelotusnefertoum2144 They weren't, we have sampled their DNA many, many times, not once were there genes discovered with an association with black skin, rather the opposite just genes associated with a lightly pigmented skin.
@@dyingstarsshinebrightest1640 The obvious LOGICAL TRUTH is within social media NOT whitewashed videos. Carthage and all ancient Africa were black and brown people of their native lands.
Hannibal wasn't black african,as somebody wrote. But Hannibal was the best general ever with the best tehnology for army!
My ancestor: Removes eye to avoid discomfort.
Me: Complains about not taking my protein shake.
I don't know why they don't want to act movies on this inspiring histories
Its because he is black, they just draw him white because... well thats the way they interpret history
@@Thr3egod Very wrong, Carthaginians were originally Phoenicians and a very large part of the population was still ethnically and genetically Phoenicians during the Punic wars. Meaning that although Carthage was a meltingpot of various ethnicities the majority still resembled/looked like people from the middle east.
Representation is important, therefore one should look into the history unbiased and solely make conclusions if the information supports it. Not turn and twist it because you want it to support your political views.
@@mr.2083 you read your history from books. I recall my history from memory. We are not on the same page, figuratively speaking obviously... but you can keep going as much as you like its good to know what you people are thinking
He’s of our nationality that’s why bro
@@Thr3egod you people are so delusional. I feel bad for you but I also hate you. Lol
*Hannibal looks at Alps
*Hannibal: Tis but just some hills*
😂🤣😂🤣…I shall smite these mounds until they are obstacles no more
Hannibal berca sleep well my greatest grandfather🐎🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘
RIP elephants 😭
I know. I only felt bad for all those poor babies and the other animals 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Carthage Immortalized ❤ Carthage today is Tunisia, and the ruins still exist. 🇹🇳
Please make a video on Chandragupta Maurya
Hey I remember this character from Barbarians Rising on the HISTORY channel.
Lol
Oof yeah. A black Hannibal.... 😞
Nothing like a black Achilles, History channel has no shame. As South Park says "History channel, where the truth is History."
@@tomurg Eh the main people they traced to were Numidians so is that really a problem despite many depictions not showing as that in the slightest.
@@1986tessie There is that though ironically it isn’t much different than doing that to people who weren’t anything like what most Western media or Asian media portrays people
I feel sorry for the elephants. Their kind still cannot peace.
I always feel sad for the elephants in war history, they are always treated so badly.
I often question whether the heroics and the noise about Hannibal is really worth it or not..
A. Crossing the Alps is brilliant.. UNTIL you see the casualties! about half of the army was died crossing the mountains. Was it worth it? that's a question that is hard to answer in the 21th century. Maybe building a fleet was more effective than throwing half of the army to their deaths, while demoralizing and tiring the other half? Because as readers of the history, we know it wasn't worth it. Carthage lost the war in the end, and this crossing might have been the main reason why.
B. Not conquering Rome is exactly as Maharabal said, not knowing how to use a victory. Rome is a fortress yes, but wasn't the whole purpose of this campaign is conquering Rome? Rome after Cannae battle was at its weakest point. In his defense, the lack of siege equipment was a valid reason to stall the thought, but stalling apparently costed him Carthage itself, as apparently that gave Rome all the time she needed to rebuild its annihilated army.
C. Hannibal is celebrated and seen as great by the Romans themselves, but isn't that a good propaganda story for Rome itself? "We are the ones that defeated the general that marched thousands of miles, crossed the Alps and was miles away from our Republic's annihilations, but at the darkest hour of Rome's history, we rose and defeated the boogeyman and submitted his homeland after he was just on the gates of our city". This story sure did build the Romans reputation and helped them on their Empire expansion in the following decades after the Punic wars. Afterall, the republic at this point of history is a fraction of its greatness couple of centuries later.
D. If you look at it abstractly, At the start: Carthage, starts a war to conquer Rome. At the end: Carthage was hamulated in the treaty and basically put Carthage under Roman Protectorate. If you have one of the greatest leaders in the history, how could this be the outcome of your reign?
We come from the future, We know the result of each of Hannibal's decision but he didn't at that time. But shouldn't "one of the greatest generals in the history" have predicted the possible outcomes of his actions?
building a fleet would have been suicide . roans had naval superiority on the mediterranean sea after the 1st punic war.
to gage how good a move is you see the casualities vs what it won him. and that move alone won him the next few battle due to the surprise factor alone , he caught the romans with their pants down. the only other safe ways into roman territory were heavily guarded and forced a direct conflict with the romans with no room for craftiness. Roman were nigh impossible to beat in a direct brawl.
sieging was not an option. that and hannibal received no help from carthage. throughout his campaign.
a war has a lot more to it than its generals. no matter how great of a general you are you cannot beat a whole empire / republic by yourself without support. the roman generals had all the support they can get and kept losing every time . and the romans had all that time to atudy hannibal's way of war and counter. and they were finally able to do so to a severely weakened hannibal army at the battle of zama.
show me one general in human history that fought a superpower of the time alone , in their own territory , with 1 army without resupplies or support with a less trained army of mercenaries and almost won against one of the strongest nations in human history even then. I'll wait.
@@idirbouchdoug1567 Yes, but even Scipio didn't have support from the Senate in the battle of Zama. They didn't give him any legion for the expedition to Carthage because they wanted him to fight Hannibal in Italy instead, Scipio had to recruit his army privately and work his way to gain access to the Numedian cavalry - Hannibal's secret weapon. Both Nations had other priorities and other fronts to think about, such as Spain and Sicily, they couldn't just go all-in for 1 person and risk others falling into the hands of the enemy.
@@macobuzi true , but being stranded in italy for more than adecade and winning multiple significant battles despite being trapped and with no supplies or rei forcements is more impressive imo.
You can clearly see the lack of support for hanni al by the fact that he only had to lose a battle once to lose everything while rome kept coming back devastating loss after devastating loss.
nice docu, alot to learn from his life.
Hanible and his father did not Sacrifice humans as the Greeks and Romans did. One of the reasons that they were so persistent to enter Rome was the moral turpitude of human Sacrifice by Europe France Franco.
Hannibal=G.O.A.T.
You mean Scipio
Hannibal was not black, he certainly looked like modern Tunisians. Africa is not a small island but a huge continent with lot of diversity. And we north-africans, Berbers or Egyptians, are not black.
Bro, I am also an African - from Kenya. We know that Hannibal was not black like Southern Saharan Africans, and we don’t feel the need to claim he was to make ourselves feel better (for what reason, I don’t know).
The people who claim that Hannibal, the Egyptians, and other random historical figures were black tend to be African Americans, and they tend to be part of some weird cult known as the Black Hebrew Israelites. These people have basically been brainwashed. So don’t be offended by these clowns who try to claim your history as their own, they do not represent the vast majority of black people.
In a way, it’s a testament to the grandness of the ancient Egyptian civilisation that so many have tried to claim it as their own (including the Nazis who claimed all the great ancient civilizations were started by ‘Aryans’).
So many are still in awe at the achievements your ancient ancestors accomplished that some don’t even believe that ancient humans were capable of doing what they did - instead claiming ‘aliens’ are responsible.
I once read a quote that said, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.” Modern science tells us that the universe is limited, but no scientific evidence yet exists for the finite limitation of human stupidity. The black Hebrew Israelites, on the other hand, are merely one more example of the boundless nature of human ignorance.
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@@deltapapa130 👍🏼👍🏿
Rome was not an empire, on Hanibals era
Technically it was. The names we have for Rome are a modern invention.
@@sushidope1701 Rome was Republican in the Hannibal era.
Come on HBO or Starz we need to see this. Spartacus by Starz was spectacular.
Hannibal the Great was a Man of Color, A Black Man, the First to use the original tanks, ( 🐘) Elephant.s
He was of Middle Eastern descent ffs, not black.
He wasn't the first to use elephants either. The Indians and the Diadochi had been doing it centuries before him.
One of world s greatest African general.
I always think of Hannibal Lecter whenever I hear the name Hannibal.
T&T bro could find one anywhere lol
Why do they white wash everything? These characters doesn't look anything like the Coins and the original paintings. Hannibal was a Dark Skinned African. I hate racism. You guys are wrong for false propaganda.
No he wasn't.
"New Netflix Original series "New West"! What if Hannibal of Carthage conquered Rome? Where would we be now?"
Maybe have pop culture cameos of where they might be in an alternate timeline, Hulk Hogan appears as a guy selling mattresses, Queen Latifah appears as one of those no nonsense street merchants who both sells and kills the bird right there on the spot like its just a casual "whatever" thing, Will Smith slaps a camel and promptly gets mauled in the background, Rowan Atkinson and Mr Beast are farmers who are neighbors who hate and prank eachother, Macaulay Culkin and Mark Hammil are philosophers at a university having a heated debate that turns into a brawl, Elvis founded "Presley" and thats their worlds Disney but he still died from heart problems and eating "Fools Golden Loaf" which was apparently something he liked. Little cameos.
Also, if you are wondering what "Fools Golden Loaf" is I'll save you the search, its roughly 8000 kcal of "sandwich" and its made by the Colorado Mine Company which is a restaurant in Denver Colorado. It is made of, and I quote: 1 warmed single hollowed out loaf of bread filled with 1 Jar of creamy peanut butter, 1 jar of grape jelly and 1 pound (450 g) of bacon in the middle. (thats not a sandwich, thats diabetes warmed over)
The Greatest military strategist ever known to humanity. His name would be repeated till the end of days. Hail the Hannibal.
He was defected and Carthage destroyed. How does that = greatest?
@@mikligardur9104 Well, he one of the reasons he was defeated was that 1. Carthage didn't really support him while he was rampaging through Italy 2. The battle that he lost he was outnumbered and had command of men that were very much of inferiour quality.
@@mr.2083 So he was not the greatest, he knew the odds and gambled and lost, Alexander on the other hand was a genius, so was Napoleon
@@ulrichkristensen4087 DIdn't say anything in contrast to that, simply mentioned some of the facts underlying his defeat. I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree here
In Italy he simply didn't receive the support he needed to actually win the war. Though he did a very fine job with what he had. And by the time he was recalled to Carthage (leaving most of his troops in Italy), he was put in control of an army of much lesser quality than the battle hardened troops he led in Italy. All factors beyond his control, but never the less he put up a better fight than most other great generals could have. However one cannot overlook the factors that are in a (great) part responsible for the defeat he suffered.
Wonder how history would’ve changed if Carthage had over powered Rome
we would all be speaking Carthaginian instead of Latin
My little brother who will be 33 in a couple of weeks is named Jerrell Hannibal Foster...
One look at Hannibals real minted coin and you realize he was black Afrikan.
Nice😁
Romans never described him as Ethiopian which is what they called all blacks. He was most likely darker than a Roman though
No. No he wasn’t. Interesting how you don’t link to those cooks you claim prove he was black.
He would probably have been darker than a Roman but not black like a sub Saharan African.
You don’t need to steal someone else’s history, bro, it makes you look insecure about your own.
Why do you even feel the need to define yourself through the lens of European history? Isn’t that a bit Eurocentric?
Yes sir! The only likeness we have of him
Hannibal and Carthaginians were Phoenicians which came from todays Liban region ...they were not African nor European , they were Mediterranean.....that is the truth, and all you racists can take it easy now....the white and the black can not exist without the othet ( how would you know what white is if there was no black or vice- versa)
It's Occultism Doctors versus Healer Doctors, not in the Colosseum of Caesar but the venue shall be on the world stage, it's about who cares and who cares not. Let it be
i cant find anything on hannibals mother.
was she carthagenian or iberian?
anyone know?