Of what race and descent was Hannibal?

Question

I saw a special on National Geographics. I had read that he was a man of color, but in the show he looked to be what we consider to be Caucasian.

Answer 1

Hannibal was a Carthaginian, meaning that he was decended from Phoenician refugees who settled there after fleeing Tyre in what's now southern Lebanon. If you look at Wikipedia, there is a bust done during his lifetime - you can't see his skin color, but he definitely has a North African / Arabic kind of nose. He would almost certainly have been dark haired and brown-skinned, but he wouldn't have had the darkness of the classic middle-to-southern African.

Answer 2

When Hannibal (in his own language: Hanba'al, "mercy of Baal") was born in 247 BCE, his birthplace Carthage (today a suburb of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia) was losing a long and important war. It had been the Mediterranean's most prosperous seaport and possessed wealthy provinces, but it had suffered severe losses from the Romans in the First Punic War (264-241). After Rome's victory, it stripped Carthage of its most important province, Sicily; and when civil war had broken out in Cartage, Rome seized Sardinia and Corsica as well. These events must have made a great impression on the young Hannibal.

He was the oldest son of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, who took the ten-year old boy to Iberia in 237. There were several Carthaginian cities in Andalusia: Gadir ('castle', modern Cádiz), Malkah ('royal town', Málaga) and New Carthage (Cartagena). The ancient name of Córdoba is unknown, although the element Kart, 'town', is still recognizable in its name.

Youth (247-219)
Saguntum to Cannae (219-216)
Cannae to Zama (216-202)
Looking for revenge (202-182)
Assessment

Livy's account of the
Second Punic War

Appian's account of
the Hannibalic War

Appian's account of
the Spanish War

Appian's account of
the African War

Across the Alps



Spain during the Second Punic war. Design Jona Lendering.
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Hamilcar added new territories to this informal empire. In this way, Carthage was compensated for its loss of overseas territories. The Romans believed that Hannibal's father forced his son to promise eternal hatred against the Romans. This may be an invention, but there may be some truth in the story: the Carthaginians had good reasons to hate their enemies.

Answer 3

Hannibal Barca ("mercy of Baal") was the son of Hamilcar Barca. It should be noted that Barca was an epithet, meaning "lightning" and not a surname in the modern sense, but it was carried by his sons. Historians refer to the Hamilcar's family as the Barcids to avoid confusion with other Carthaginians of the same name. After Carthage's defeat in the First Punic War, Hamilcar set out to improve his family's and Carthage's fortunes. With that in mind and supported by Gades, Hamilcar began the subjugation of the tribes of the Iberian Peninsula. Carthage at the time was in such a poor state that its navy was unable to transport his army to Iberia (Hispania); instead, Hamilcar had to march it towards the Pillars of Hercules and ferry it across the strait.

Answer 4

cutting-part races at the instant are not equivalent to historic ones. there have been somewhat some extensive migrations considering then, meaning people those days do no longer look comparable to their ancestors interior a similar place. for occasion, Indians on the time of the Pyramids being geared up in historic Egypt have been very almost black skinned, like cutting-part-day mountain Sri Lankans. He grew to become right into a Carthaginian, so possibly no longer numerous to prominent Tunisians, different than that Tunisians are many times Arab and Carthaginians weren't, they have been Phoenician, who have been corresponding to Jews. His visual attraction grew to become into very almost extremely olive skinned, possibly with black hair.

Answer 5

I don't know but there are probably other sources besides National Geographic on Hannibal's heritage

Answer 6

Carthaginian

Carthage was at about the middle of the Northern coast of Africa. Carthaginians were typically descended from Phoenicians, and Phoenicians came from all over the Mediterranean....

So, he probably had dark skin and hair, but wasn't black.

Answer 7

well the army rode elephants so my guess
Africa
either middle eastern or African if you want to get it right.
It was before the fall of Rome and mnay of the Romans settled Europe after the fall of rome.

Answer 8

Carthegenian.

Answer 9

Roman Catholic (of Greek decendent)

Answer 10

He was white. So was Face and Animal. I think B.A. Barracus was black.