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Was the historic Hannibal black

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

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.

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