The Masinissa helped to the Numidians during the war and defeated Carthage.

Syphax, the king of the Masaesyli of western Numidia actually fought against Scipio Africanus. It was Masinissa, the king of the Massyli, of eastern Numidia who was the one who helped Scipio. Syphax was defeated at the Battle of Bagbrades and thereafter was pursued by Masinissa.

The term was Client King - he accepted Rome's hegemony, and paid tribute to Rome. He was initially an ally of Carthage, and fought with them in Spain and Africa, but became disillusioned and switched to the Roman side, his cavalry being decisive in Scipio's defeat of Hannibal at Zama, which ended the Second Punic War. After that he became king of Numidia and, as a Roman ally, was used clandestinely by Rome (which had a peace treaty with Carthage) to provoke and harrass Carthage. Eventually the Carthaginians responded in force to defend themselves, and this gave Rome the excuse, that Carthage was attacking a Roman ally, to open the Third Punic War and destroy Carthage utterly.

The Imazighen (singular: Amazigh) also known as the Berbers, they are the ethnic group indigenous to North Africa (Canary Islands, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Azawad)

Some of the best known of the ancient Berbers are : The king Sheshonk I who ruled Egypt in 945 BC, Carthaginian leader Hannibal, The Mauretanian king Bocchus I, king Ptolemy of Mauretania, The Numidian king Masinissa, king Jugurtha, the Berber-Roman emperor Septimius Severus, the Berber-Roman author Apuleius who was the first man to write a novel, Saint Augustine of Hippo and the Berber-Roman general Lusius Quietus, who was instrumental in defeating the major wave of Jewish revolts of 115-117. Also Dihya, was a female Berber religious and military leader who led a fierce Berber resistance against the Arab expansion in east of north Africa. Prince Aksil was a 7th-century leader from Algeria who led wars against Arabs.

Famous Berbers of the Middle Ages include (Yusuf ibn Tashfin, king of the Berber Almoravid empire) (Tariq ibn Ziyad, the general who conquered Hispania) (Abbas Ibn Firnas, a prolific inventor scientist and early pioneer in aviation, he was the first man to fly) (Ibn Battuta, a medieval explorer who traveled the longest known distances in pre-modern times) .

Well-known modern Berbers in Europe include Zinedine Zidane, a French-born international football star of Algerian Kabyle descent. Ibrahim Afellay a Dutch-born footballer of Moroccan Riffian descent. Idir, a famous singer of Kabyle Algerian descent.

After the Second Punic War Hannibal was elected leader of Carthage. He weakened the power of the council of judges which had become a dictatorial force, fought corruption and the privileges of the aristocracy and restored the economy of Carthage. Some aristocrats accused Hannibal of planning an alliance against Rome with Antiochus III the king of the Seleucid Empire which was centred on Syria who was planning a war against Rome. The Romans set up a commission of enquiry. Hannibal went into voluntary exile and fled to the court of Antiochus. He became his military advisor during the Roman-Syrian War. He commanded the Seleucid flee in two naval battles in which he was defeated. When Antiochus seemed prepared to hand him to the Romans in the course of peace negotiations, Hannibal took refuge at the court of Prusias I, the king of Bithynia (in north-western Turkey), who was engaged in a war with King Eumenes II of Pergamon (in western Turkey) a Roman ally.

Hannibal won a naval battle and two land battles against Pergamon. The Romans threatened Prusias into handing over Hannibal. Rather than facing this fate, Hannibal poisoned himself. His words before dying were: "Let us relieve the Romans from the anxiety they have so long experienced, since they think it tries their patience too much to wait for an old man's death."