Maybe in 25 B.C.E.

Mostly iron, the shafts and handles generally of wood, sometimes bone.

No, he was of Mediterranean origin, being from Carthage in present day Tunisia. The Carthaginians migrated from East Asia. Hannibal had Numidian light cavalry in his army, and they were black, but Hannibal himself was said to be of Semitic origin.

When he was 11 years old he was sent to school at Madaurus, a small Numidian city about 19 miles south of Thagaste noted for its pagan climate. At age 17, through the generosity of fellow citizen Romanianus, he went to Carthage to continue his education in rhetoric.