Barbarians Rising: Hannibal: A Campaign of Vengeance (Episode 1) | History

The son of a mighty Carthaginian warrior, Hannibal Barca will stop at nothing to wipe out the Roman Republic. Experts describe his global vision in this web exclusive. #BarbariansRising
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Barbarians Rising
Season 1
Episode 1
Part 1 Hour 1
Barbarians Rising tells the story of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire from the perspective of the barbarian rebel leaders who helped bring it down.
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[@bulldogsbob]

Hannibal wasn't black he was of Phoenician descent.

[@KhriiSleeze]

All of those people were of African descent, so your point?

[@KhriiSleeze]

Hannibal was of color. The Romans lied. The whitewashed it as they did all of history.

[@wolverineeagle]

+Khristian Willis The point is that he was not sub-Saharan African. Not all Africans have dark brown skin.

[@wolverineeagle]

+Khristian Willis Of color does not necessarily mean black. Technically southern Italians are "of color". The Romans whitewashed nothing. They had no concept of race.

[@KhriiSleeze]

wolverineeagle They are of color because they are black. They are of the african diaspora. They are direct decedents of the Italian moors.

[@heihei3453]

Aside from making Hannibal look like Kimbo Slice, they also managed to get the wrong species of elephants.

[@THEEck5000]

Indian elephants r more tame, genius

[@heihei3453]

@@THEEck5000 Could have used some African Forest Elephants, genius.

[@komradebigchungus7268]

@@heihei3453 They are different from North African Elephants

[@Piper.luv13]

Did you listen to the video? The elephants that Hannibal used are no extinct. So... finding those would have been quite hard.

[@frilink]

@@Piper.luv13 well at least use the elephant that still lives in the right Continent......

[@JURGEART]

So out of 13 million tunisians you couldn't find a actor to play hannibal? Now I'm waiting for Chinese Montezuma.

[@roflswamp6]

@Dragon Of The West no it doesn't

[@orange6721]

i think many Carthaginian is black, aren't they? uhh.. would appreciate if someone could confirm this, or not.

[@roflswamp6]

@@orange6721 most aren't. They exist today

[@orange6721]

@@roflswamp6 ok so.. they are black.. but most people are not?

[@roflswamp6]

@@orange6721 no most of them are not black

[@Jesusandbible]

Why no black elephants?

[@ghassencsetwow]

everything should be black here

[@TheRico476]

Would make more sense.

[@batissta44]

Because that would be inaccurate

[@berserk9085]

@@batissta44 black Hannibal is as accurate like John Wayne as dshingis khan.

[@mann536]

@@ghassencsetwow ywp the dinosaurs are black

[@colonelbagshot6593]

This is super insulting to every North African.

[@kindofbluenyc]

Not really.

[@AaronMitchell]

I wonder if that is the equivalent to white Americans being insulted by Native Americans.

[@Power2315]

Lol, exactly, I'm usually okay with white washing because of how the market works, but this is neither marketable or historically accurate, just pure sjw garbage.

[@TheshayWest]

That is the dumbest statement i have ever read.

[@Power2315]

Ameer Mutazammil This coin wasn't supposed to be from any empire but from a remote Italian village, if it isn't a fake of course.

[@rammalammadingdong1]

why dont you guys at "history" have a Chinese woman play the role

[@carbonsnail014]

The Chinese do lay claim to him I've been told.

[@ponibrojokobro1397]

yeah.... i wanna see them as ancient aliens who built the pyramid 😁

[@Joke_Bidumb]

Because history channel is run by Americans who think there are two races on this earth, black and white. If Hannibal was from Africa, that makes him black in their small minds.

[@matiusbond6052]

YOUR COMMENT IS stupid. CEASER WAS WHITE AND FROM EUROPE,SHOULD HE BE BLACK??

[@sipchamps6228]

Do your research Hannible was black king James was black phonecia was black Europeans were originally black wite people invaded after the fact and the vikings were black ⚫

[@chaosu64]

As a Tunisian I don't know what to think reading all these comments about white washing and such. Tunisians aren't black, and I'm a berber by the way, so no point telling me we came from Arabia later. There simply were close to no blacks in North Africa at the time because the Sahara was impossible to go through. Please if you want to complain about history appropriation stop appropriating ours. Thanks

[@awate-mm5px]

Dilemma_Nay really !!! so the Barber language that originated around lake chad is the language of white people who lived there at the time lol i never knew that and the rock art depicting black people in Tunisia is really of white people pretending to be black and lets not forget the Romans and the Greeks who called the Carthagens black always and not white or brown didn't know what they were talking about becouse they didn't know how a Phoenician looked like. hahaha look you are a hybrid a result of many migration do you really think the history channel don't actually reasarch what they are talking about.

[@abd-al-haqal-haqiqi6981]

no no Berber language is not from lake chad infact there is too many theories about the Proto-berber & proto-egyptian languages one thing is true is that they are all from eastern africa Ethiopia or somalia

[@awate-mm5px]

Hiwa Joethen then we both agree its a language that orginated in black africa by black africans.

[@awate-mm5px]

@@nagual1992 lol wat about cave paintings of the local population depicting themselves as black even more the Greeks and Romans calling the local population black. but that don't matter they are white Europeans right 😂😂😂

[@TheEmpireStrikes74]

But its true..This was 2200 years ago before the Arab and European invasion of North Africa ...This is before Greeks and Romans fully invaded North Africa.(Muslim conquest of North Africa in 7th and 8th century, then the Ottmans, the Turks, etc.. The people of Tunisia today are a Hybrid of many nations.. Arab But your certainly not white or Caucasoid..lol. Try telling a European your white or Caucasoid and see what they tell you..I am sure they will disagree.. There were black people in North Africa during this area and other groups are fragments of the original peoples of that area.. Lets set the record straight..

[@anibalbarca3287]

Cartago it's now in the Sub Saharan African ?? thx history channel.........

[@anibalbarca3287]

blackdreamhunk2 Stupid answer. No and no. But ty for participate

[@anibalbarca3287]

blackdreamhunk2 "BLACKdreamhunk" link to me to atlantaBLACKstar, black web for black people lies. You seems a fanatic guy. Sorry for you. I don't need link to fanatics web, I have studied history in the university, i have study the human origin in "la sima de los huesos", so, thaks for your try, buy u waste ur time.

[@anibalbarca3287]

blackdreamhunk2 your link say: ""5 Ancient African Empires Besides Egypt That Europeans and Arabs Tried to Claim as Their Own"" plz... This is serius? it's a joke? No one said Carthage was european or Arab. This web page have a low level of history

Anibal Barca Do you think I am joking? I'm dead serious and I will destroy you this topic. I am going to ask you do you have a PHD in african history?

[@anibalbarca3287]

Not a joking, a fanatic, very diferent. You take advantage of the victimism for try to change the history, very Sad. Yes i study the african history, I could talk about "Mecha Afalou" (go and looking about this) , or about many things, but for what??! it's usseles, I meet people similar than you: fanatics triying to write a new history. Your name or your link, it's only a little example, but betrays you, "black...", it's my name "white...something" or "Arab...something"? No. You are a fanatic, sorry guy.

[@oogabooga2581]

I cant wait for the black viking characters in the next season!

[@vegascole4301]

Haha

[@riflechess7693]

@@vegascole4301 *WE WUZ!!!*

[@depitesenate8247]

ooga booga u mean like y’all did with the Egyptians? You ppl are the only ppl stealing other ppl’s history my friend

[@mr.knightthedetective7435]

Dude, just accept it. Hannibal was black.

[@LouieTzepher]

Stop it!

[@KermitTheFrogHere]

WE WUZ PHOENICIANS

[@KhriiSleeze]

PHOENICIANS is not an ethnicity.

[@chrischammas1]

+Khristian Willis yes it is... I am Phonecian... Stop trying to bury my culture..

[@Windycitykiid23]

Phoenicians are a bloodline from ham.

[@KhriiSleeze]

chris chammas Nobody is trying to bury your culture. You just need to stop denying that fact that Hannibal was indeed black.

[@KhriiSleeze]

Ben Garrison Who is trying to Bury Arab culture? What a lot of y'all fail to realize is that some africans/blacks were in the middle east and lived there for years.

[@hijikata530]

Wow, and you call yourselves the "history" channel.

[@Pouncealot2023]

a little bit of research is good,search for carthagian coins

[@ravenwhiteduck3158]

@@Pouncealot2023 a little bit of research is good, search for phoenician discovery, spoilers they aren't black

[@MegaBaddog]

@@Pouncealot2023 coins were from later period which showed blacks

[@MegaBaddog]

@@Pouncealot2023 which archaelogist? give me links to check out right now

[@realtalkgeoff4021]

Ignorant comments. Phoenicians were Black African people. The people of Tunisia today represent the people who won the wars over centuries of human migration (i.e. Arabs, French). If you cant understand why the people of Tunisia today look completely different than the people of Hannibal's time, then just look at United States, Canada, or Australia. The population of those countries are not reflective of what they were centuries ago, let alone thousands of years ago. The race/appearance of populations change over time, so if you can't understand that 2400 years ago indigenous people in Africa looked African, then you would probably have issues understanding how people in South Dakota or Manitoba or Sydney (Australia) were not mostly Caucasian 400 years ago.

[@anon-iraq2655]

Hannibal braca was a Phoenician, a people who looked like Arabs and spoke a language close to Arabic, who later adopted arabic he was not a sub Saharan man his looks are well documented in coins and statues, this is shameless historical appropriation

[@alanmountain5804]

Yep episode 1 of this show got it wrong right from the start

[@bjjkickboxing7876]

Go back to a history book my man. All the coins and statu3s of hannibal were made later after his death. The most popular ahnnibal statue was acrually made by an artist who just sculpted the average Carthaginian man of his century(the artists century). And back in hannibals days, the arab expansion havent even began yet. So the north of africa and even the mediterannean was FILLED with all races. From black to white to arabic etc etc. So altho i agree that we cant just jump to the conclusion that he was black just because we feel like it, the odds are still not against it.

[@SM-gd2rn]

Daniel Rozefort go to North Africa now and see what the people look like they're not White or black they're amazigh or berber like the romans used to call them

[@anon-iraq2655]

​@@bjjkickboxing7876 I'm sorry do you know what a Phoenician is? no neither north Africa nor med was "filled with all races" there was limited numbers of sub Saharan and north European SLAVES, not generals, not elites, not Hannibal also why are you mentioning Arab expansion like its relevant to anything?

[@Piper.luv13]

You are correct in that Hannibal could probably trace some of his ancestry to Phoenicia, but Phoenicia had already been conquered by the Persians and the Alexander the Great. Therefore, the pure Phoenician culture was now mixed with Persian and Hellenistic culture. Hannibal was born in present-day Tunisia, which is in Africa. Therefore, that does make him a sub-Saharan African man.

[@Nebelung13]

Now blacks were Carthaginians too? xD

[@rahnyc4]

nawh blacks were vikings like whites were egyptians.

[@industryuplinks2668]

So you're saying that ISIS and the Terrorists in North Africa are white people too!!! ....LOL I highly suggest that you learn about the Arab and Islamic Conquest of North Africa!!

[@ocky88]

Actually-- yes. As described by those who saw them

[@Nebelung13]

False. Carthaginians closest relatives are the Hebrews of old. They looked like jews essentially.

[@jimmyafro430]

Yes! History channel coming correct! will make sure every black parent I know watches this one with the whole family!

[@emmahas2moms57]

Hercules was actually Chinese

[@essaadeel3676]

Hercules's actual Greek name is Heracles, Hercules is the Roman version.

[@jaydee3681]

Yes, she had the power of 10 dragons inside

[@Loislikes]

​@@essaadeel3676The bloodline of Hercules was a greek tale. The ancient Spartans were thought to be descendants of the man. So who cares about Romans.

[@__Man__]

Yes, his original name was Huang Ku-Lee.

[@LuvandlyricsTv]

As a white woman u men are week u hate to see a black man in power

[@user-ic7zv6kx5h]

i'm tunisian and hannibal is not black WTF :o

[@vincem2759]

So Black Tunisians don't exist?

[@user-ic7zv6kx5h]

no black tunisians exist but hannibal is not a black (i respect black)

[@sonofbarca9642]

black exist in tunisia because trans-saharan slave-trade , before that only caucasiod Mediterranean Berber tribes were there...#FACT

[@vincem2759]

Son of Barca You still pretending to be Tunisian?

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

When you stop pretending "Hannibal is black as Mr.Popo"?

[@mandeadmandead6624]

Thank you, i believe in flying saucer now. Tunisians are black after egyptians, uk university is ridiculous

[@eggthefrog948]

how can i watch this series, i really want to but i cant seem find a site to watch it

[@hipsteryouth3753]

good job history!! I can't wait for the next Chinese actor to play Ragnar Lodbrok

[@maostudio9256]

Ahahahahahah

[@adambonot2439]

Ahahaha, Ragnar great historical character. 😂😂

[@ajdinyavuz7575]

Didnt you hear, the new vikings turned a white scandinavian dude into a black woman

[@ammarhaziq919]

Cant wait to see indian guy to be chinese emperor

[@mouzecapo8598]

He was an African is he supposed to look white 😂😂😂

[@michaeljuzepczuk6914]

why is Hannibal a subsaharan?

[@deanghostin990]

because he was.

[@hemerafos2655]

Dean Ghostin no he wasn’t you idiot !

[@octaviouswillingham8458]

Perhaps you did not know that authentic Africans were all over Africa before the Arab invasion in 500AD...well now you know.

[@mza3764]

@@octaviouswillingham8458 I am from North Africa, we have a well documented history especially after the fall of carthage and their was no mention of any prominent subsaharan Afican communities in North Africa. We are not blacks and we are not whites either.

[@hezekiahibin5965]

@@yusufibntachfin7978 Hahahaha that's a lie

[@stevoc9930]

Why was Hannibal black? Why is North African history being re-written?

[@joopbuchtaer5258]

As a pale skinned North African I feel discriminated by this 'historian' channel.

[@memyself4ever1]

Too bad. I guess you'll burn in the sun lacking suntan lotion like your white brethren.

[@husseinbulehlib6607]

@@memyself4ever1 , u don't need to be racist , do u ???

[@memyself4ever1]

@@husseinbulehlib6607 If it doesn't APPLY, let it FLY! I was addressing racist trolls. If YOU are NOT ONE, then it DOES NOT APPLY!

[@sydlawson3181]

@@memyself4ever1 no you were making statements which make you come off as racist.

[@Nubias]

Why they said nothing about you? If you feel discriminated against it's because you want somebody to feel sorry for sorry azz.

[@TacoEqualsFtw]

WE WUZ PHOENICIANS N SHIET

[@obieelibya77]

loooool

[@Palestine4Ever169]

Dawood Suleiman They claim everyone else in the world bro Even the freaking samurai and natives of America

[@TT-rw3zf]

@Dawood Suleiman No they don't.

[@TT-rw3zf]

@@Palestine4Ever169 You're just exaggerating

[@Palestine4Ever169]

T T I wish Go look it up The afrocentric are truly sick in the head

[@TacoEqualsFtw]

I hope when the History Channel does a special on the Founding Fathers, they accurately portray them as Native Americans. After all, they were born in NORTH AMERICA, so they can only be Indians. There is simply no other logical explanation.

[@caracalgaming7377]

your nose is bigger than my future

[@ldlhicks]

+CaracalGaming savage lol

[@imannfletcher1795]

This comment would be clever if North America is what the Indigenous tribes of Abya Yala called the continent. But since North America is a construction of Colonialism, by the time is I was called "North America", the ethnicities of the inhabitants could only be one thing...

[@R.Williamss]

Yup

[@R.Williamss]

***** he is but white supremacists deny it

[@Andulsi]

I m half Tunisian. I know a bit about North African history and demographics. The average person in Tunisia is still AT LEAST 60% Berber. Carthage was a Phoenician settlement (people from modern day Lebanon) North Africans (including Egyptians) are mediterranean people. They are not white European, nor are they Sub Saharan African and I am sick to death of white and black supremascist groups claiming these civilisations whilst writing their ACTUAL descendents out of history. My own great grandmother was Egyptian by the way. I know that the region has become Muslim (I myself am an atheist) and Culturally Arabic , but genetics do not lie. Even today the average Tunisian owes at most 20% of his or her ancestry to the Arabian peninsula. We are mixed. But the original populations were essentially Berber and related groups...and they are neither black nor white. So kindly stop trying to appropriate our history

[@Andulsi]

+The Grateful-3000 My granmothers maiden name was Marrekshi. People from Marrakesh. An essentially Berber city. Neither black nor white. The problem with you people is you see race as a binary thing and don t allow that there can be other shades and hues. Do you think Indians are a mix of Black and White European. One need only look at the difference in how Egyptians represent themselves as compared with Nubians in ancient times.

[@TheGrateful-]

Andulsi These are credible historians who went to renown universities. You're not one so deal with it

[@Andulsi]

+The Grateful-3000 I am actually. University of Birmingham. Ancient History and Archaeology. Read em and weep

[@rahnyc4]

i know people like you, who believe everyone look like you do.. :-/ unless you can trace history way before you were born, you know nothing, especially about ancient Egyptians. also sub Saharan Africans have no individual look. their look varies based on tribe's and region.

[@Andulsi]

+Mr DeSilva sure we can know. the DNA project is already tracing where populations originated and even what they likely looked like. White Europeans and Black Africans no longer get to claim OUR history. We are North Africans. A peaple in our own right.

[@worldofclassic7063]

Carthage was an empire and Hannibal was a military commander. We should not say barbarians to this great empire

[@lexetordo8954]

they did human sacrifice lol I think hannibal was dope but he was still a barbarian.

[@Theaielman]

@@lexetordo8954 So did Rome. They also mutilated Gallic men, women, and children and left them to die in agony. Let's not pretend barbarity was solely something that peoples other than Rome resorted to. Also, whether or not the Carthaginians actually did do human sacrifice is incredibly debated, with evidence pointing to the fact that the tophet is merely a place where cremated remains of children that died of other causes were placed. Meanwhile Roman sources themselves admit to human sacrifice taking place as late as the first century BC.

[@karlijn3230]

Romans used the word 'barabarus' to refer to everyone that isn't Roman, not just barbaric

[@archangelking4524]

@@karlijn3230 and you just proved something my friend barbarian is a Rome term for outsider hence where is Rome today America is Rome still has to answer to the Vatican so I wouldn't be surprised if an American history channel refer to great leaders as barbaric which is false we brought Europe out of the dark ages

[@williamsmith8790]

Barbaro just meant foreigner or outsider.

[@brunbamse12]

WE WUZ HANNIBULZ N SHIET

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

STOP MANIPULATING OUR NORTH AFRICAN HISTORY. HANNIBAL WAS NOT A BLACK SUB SAHARAN AFRICAN. STOP THIS FOOLNESS. .HE WAS A CARTHAGIAN FOR CHRIST SAKE.

[@AaronMitchell]

You mean this black man right here on this authentic coin? www.blackhistoryheroes.com/2012/07/hannibal-barca-of-carthage-north-africa.html?m=1

[@kindofbluenyc]

Unfortunately we have no idea what he looked like. He may well have looked similar to video. There are no pictures. I'm fine either way.

[@sebastianknight6416]

And where is Carthage?... It sure ain't Europe!!! #whitetearstastegood

[@DarkFinanx]

Our north african history, remember without Islam you would still be living in tents in the deserts of arabia, you dumb kmt

[@Egalitarianjay02]

You are a racist and a liar. Do you know how to read a map? By your own map the city of Carthage was in North Africa, in modern Tunisia. The Empire did extend in to Southern Europe but the base of the civilization was in Africa. By your logic because the Roman Empire extended in to Western Asia Rome is actually in Asia! This is the type of foolishness one should expect from a racist. The Sahara desert did not create a barrier for Blacks. Black people are as native to North Africa as the White folk there. There are light-skinned and dark-skinned people in Africa today and the same was true in antiquity. Here is an anthropological source verifying this fact: The later movement of foreign peoples into northern Africa is well known and may explain most of the current variability. However, the work of classical European writers suggest a longstanding variability in Maghreban populations. Bates (1914) presents the ethnology of the ancient Maghreb as seen by classical European writers. The detail is such that there is little cause to doubt that these writers were familiar with the region. Snowden (1970) and Desanges (1981) reference various writers’ physical descriptions of the ancient Maghreb’s inhabitants. In addition to the presence of fair-skinned blonds, various “Ethiopian” or “part-Ethiopian” groups are described, near the coast and on the southern slopes of the Atlas mountains. “Ethiopians,” meaning dark-skinned peoples usually having “ulotrichous” (wooly) hair, are noted in various Greek accounts and European coinage (Snowden, 1970). Hiernaux (1975) interprets the finding of “subsaharan” population affinities in living Maghrebans as being solely the result of the medieval transsaharan slave trade; it is clear that this is not the case. Furthermore, the blacks of the ancient Maghreb were apparently not foreign or a caste. Pittard (1924) notes with surprise the race of the remains found in the Sarcophagus of the Priestess of’ Tanit in Carthage, noting them to be Negroid (see also Bertholon and Chantre, 1913). Source: Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48 (1990)

[@user-ow1qs7jo7f]

What a shame, as a north African I'm disgusted by this.

[@rayankaghasi5380]

kdabin hado akhay ...

[@84dr6]

@@rayankaghasi5380 Wayh hhh bghaw irdob kolchi black

[@rayankaghasi5380]

@@84dr6 had lko7l finma kant chi 7adara ki9olo dyalho

[@84dr6]

@@rayankaghasi5380 Wa rah 7ta 7na kaygolok gha mst3mrin lmghrib ou homa lmgharba l79i9yin f america

[@rayankaghasi5380]

@@84dr6 7na 7adara 9dima Fini9iin .9rtajiin .Morabitin .Andalusiin .Adarisa ara lia ghir 7adara w7da bnawha lko7l ?

[@user-bx4mn7xs4x]

Wtf hannibal🇹🇳 not black

[@aminebzz]

As Tunisian this "doc" is actually a sad comedy

[@Ariapeithes_]

Modern Tunisian people are not descendants of ancient Carthaginians. Just stop lying.

[@safouenbargaoui857]

@@Ariapeithes_ yes we are, even in many of our traditions, language etc we are the descendants of Carthaginians, berbers and Arabs

[@Ariapeithes_]

@@safouenbargaoui857 What traditions? What aspects of Canaanite culture have you clowns preserved over the last 2300 years dude? Give me a break.

[@elyasraya5248]

@@Ariapeithes_ dumb the adn of tunisians say all search about it and go to cry to your mom f*'ck1ng bl4ck

[@liberaltears9192]

@@Ariapeithes_keep coping ur just made black people haven’t done anything of note

[@zhida7821]

Next : Mohammad Ali : The rise of white boxer

[@YA-kr4fr]

No they can’t because this will be considered racist

[@at-a2771]

@@YA-kr4fr No there are alot of black history that are white washes. LIKE EGYPT

[@YA-kr4fr]

@@at-a2771 wtf are you talking about Egypt is still Egypt they are Egyptian not black or European wtf do you mean by white wash. Watch and wash your mouth before saying stupid stuff

[@hariako]

Lol.. you been brainwashed like the 90 percent of people. Get smart.. Carthage was in North Africa .. Africans are blacks.

[@zhida7821]

@@hariako LOL north african are not black, north african are berber you dumb dumb

[@Rasectos]

Was this before or after the black Egyptians flew into outer space in their pyramids?

[@thewarper3393]

I think it was shortly after the pyramids landed in south America and the genius KANGZ started building the Aztec civilization.

[@mozeze8763]

The Warper 33 You mean when wakanda colonised the moon? Or when the KANGZ N SHI built the eiffel tower? I cant tell after all this white washing.

[@laapache1]

white boys biggest bunch of cry babies

[@Pouncealot2023]

a little bit of research is good,search for carthagian coins

[@Mrk3lly]

You know there are pyramidd in ethopia but i wont let that shatter your bigotry too much

[@dovicdc9806]

Carthage now is black nation ? What a joke , im from north Africa and i dont recognize this joke

[@gfbshdhhshebsb3589]

Hannibal was a semite carthagian from the middle east aka Lebanon , syria ..

[@ClubisteM]

@@gfbshdhhshebsb3589 Dude... Hannibal was born 567 years after the foundation of Carthage. His father, grandfather and his grandfather's father were born in what we call Tunisia today, Tunisians are Berbers mixed with Punic people (and other groups of course). Saying he's from Lebanon/Syria, just because his ancestors lived there like 600 years ago, does not make any sense. According to your logic Donald Trump is German and Joe Biden is Irish.

[@gfbshdhhshebsb3589]

@@ClubisteM german , Irish aren’t a race , and yes because biden and trump ancestors are from Europe they’re considered whites even though they were born in America not Europe , hannibal is a semitic name

[@linsd_4457]

@@gfbshdhhshebsb3589 he’s not genetically Semitic lmao and the Carthaginian empire outlived the Phoenician empire by hundreds of years .

[@rachidrennou758]

He was not a black at all , I was wondering is that a joke ? He was a North African a Berber , until now they didn’t get it why he defeat the ROMANS In their living room 😂😂😂😂🤗 So they tried to fake the great history of our ancestors,he deserved a Greta HOLLYWOOD movie , like BREAVE HEART. God bless MOROCCO ALGERIA TUNISIA.

[@PsyEdaz4u]

LoL...the times we live in. Please do one one on Mahatma Gandhi and get Will Smith to portray him.

[@TheGrateful-]

These are credible historians who went to renown universities. You're not one so deal with it

[@MegaSandyvagina]

***** Hannibal was Phoenician, probably semitic or perhaps genetically descended from Mediterranean bloodlines. Not black African, or white European.

[@PsyEdaz4u]

He was Phoenician and they look more like or a mix of Greek and Armenoid people. Btw this "history" channel is for "entertainment" only...

[@vert442]

+sandy ernst you should never use probably or perhaps if you are sure about what you're stating. Lolhahahaha

[@MegaSandyvagina]

Maybe I should ask 23 and me.com for the definitive answer here.

[@leonc9915]

Rewriting history again. Another step towards 1984.

[@Mrk3lly]

Rewriting history by exposing the truth. Smdh

[@Mrk3lly]

@Danny J. get a new football team then ill take you seriously sorta. Lol

[@Mrk3lly]

@Danny J. you arent a scholar and your emotional opinions dont hold weight because you desperately want things to be your way. Its not my faukt your education is lacking. Just learn how to read history. Not that hard. Good luck on another 0-16 season

[@realtalkgeoff4021]

RealTalkGeoff RealTalkGeoff 1 second ago Ignorant comments. Phoenicians were Black African people. The people of Tunisia today represent the people who won the wars over centuries of human migration (i.e. Arabs, French). If you cant understand why the people of Tunisia today look completely different than the people of Hannibal's time, then just look at United States, Canada, or Australia. The population of those countries are not reflective of what they were centuries ago, let alone thousands of years ago. The race/appearance of populations change over time, so if you can't understand that 2400 years ago indigenous people in Africa looked African, then you would probably have issues understanding how people in South Dakota or Manitoba or Sydney (Australia) were not mostly Caucasian 400 years ago.

[@realtalkgeoff4021]

@Salah Saado RealTalkGeoff RealTalkGeoff 1 second ago Ignorant comments. Phoenicians were Black African people. The people of Tunisia today represent the people who won the wars over centuries of human migration (i.e. Arabs, French). If you cant understand why the people of Tunisia today look completely different than the people of Hannibal's time, then just look at United States, Canada, or Australia. The population of those countries are not reflective of what they were centuries ago, let alone thousands of years ago. The race/appearance of populations change over time, so if you can't understand that 2400 years ago indigenous people in Africa looked African, then you would probably have issues understanding how people in South Dakota or Manitoba or Sydney (Australia) were not mostly Caucasian 400 years ago.

[@nahright9928]

they tried to tell me aliens built the pyramids

[@ronnyvesper7565]

Strong black men built the pyramids

[@benjamintorres9211]

Ron Vespertilio they wuz kangz too

[@messianic_scam]

@@ronnyvesper7565 Where is your pyramids in subsahara or central africa or south africa ? NOTHING its seems when you get closer to north and the east suddenly some history appears i dont need to tell you why it's obvious

[@theofficedistraction1253]

American loves wahhabi bed crazy part is Middle Eastern Europe , along with India, was apart of the African Pangea. The tectonic plates separated over time. (This was in 3rd Grade geometry 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️)Also, there were over 300 tribes in Africa. The only other African tribe to have built pyramids were in Ethiopia.

[@MegaGman50]

@@messianic_scam Nubian has the highest number of pyramids they arent bigger but smaller and much more extravagantly built!

[@ukrainesupportazovnazis3200]

gotta love how they portray hannibal as a sub-saharan african when every statue of him is clearly not

[@besol55]

I'm going to point this out and then probably drop the subject bc i'm tired of debating... The statue your probably talking about, a marble bust with a helmet, was made during the renaissance period over a thousand yrs after Hannibal's death. They had no clue what he looked like, the best reference to get an idea of his features would be coins of which he appears to have bi-racial features. But even those were made hundreds of yrs after his death, in summary Cathaginians, like many other societies of the period, had intermarriage for political and military alliances. And ethinic features had carried little concern bc thier was no racism in the modern institutionalized sense.

[@ghassencsetwow]

@@besol55 shut the fk they would know how he north africans look are you dumb?

[@ghassencsetwow]

@Anime 4Lyfe They did mosaics around freaking tunsisia and egypt about local people none of them looked black

[@Lalegendaire]

@@besol55 Dude the "Lybians" (that was how the Berberes and Kabyles were called by Greeks and Romans) were whiter than Egyptians, bc we found some representations in egyptian tombs showing this. If the Egyptians were not at all "all black", how tf could Hannibal be, if he was "biracial" with the Berberes and the Phenicians? What do you obtain if a lebanese man and a tunisian woman make a baby? It won't be black. x)

[@totalwarbest8702]

@@Lalegendaire Its a shame that Sub-Saharan Africans are trying to steal our glorious history. I am part Tunisian and part Scandinavian. I am very pale. Even my relatives in Tunisia are. Some of them are of course darker than me, like brown, and some of them are pale as me. But I really dont know what a black Tunisian is, and I am sure that the ancient Carthaginians were not black.

[@kmartinm7617]

Hannibal wasn't black...

[@potmblcch3763]

AND JESUS AINT WHITE.......BUT I ASSURE YOU .....HANNIBAL; WAS AS BLACK AS THEY COME

[@kmartinm7617]

+Pointman Dapanther no.

[@DaDarkProphet2012]

Your white tears, they sustain me

[@TheAbaker01]

+dawnthescreenwriter your kin are the reason sales of personal protection have skyrocketed under Obama

[@zenmack8268]

WOW you must be really butt hurt. I get it. YOU were raised in America. Blame your lack of education on white supremacy that taught you that you guys were the greatest people of all time (of course with NO history to show coming out of northern Europe). Hey it will be okay. Alright. It will be okay fella.

[@abyssalknight4081]

If you look closely, Hannibal has a Chi-Rho Symbol on his helmet. So according to the History Channel, Christians were around even before Jesus was born.

[@Shadow28TV]

Lmao

[@muhammadryan654]

@M C not at all. Crucifixion is a painful way of killing someone so it is used to execute people. It has nothing to do with looking for the messiah.

[@mastermace7770]

That a lie. Christianity was a religion that Constantine made up.

[@slippytrippy8122]

​@@muhammadryan654the chi rho isnt a cross, its the first two letters of christs name or something.

[@regginsouth9565]

Blackwashing in fictional shows is normal, but blackwashing in HISTORICAL? now you crossed the line.

[@Droo444]

Please explain the African dna found throughout Europe.

[@-Benito_Swagolini-]

@@Droo444he had Semitic origins 🤦

[@phonkenjoyer7072]

​@@Droo444he wasn't a slave. Race. He . Was . Semetic.

[@Rider-lo9vt]

@@Droo444 🤡

[@kenzabel5394]

@@Droo444 african doesn't mean black north africans are different from sub saharan africans stop impropriating other's history

[@ashleyburns6752]

As a historian, sitting through the first two episodes of this was painful! 😭 But also hilarious 😂 History should be taught correctly or not at all. Jesse Jackson lecturing us on the Lusitanians was something I never expected to see.

[@Lalegendaire]

I can clearly feel your pain. 🥺

[@joelengland8429]

What about this was off, I’m not disagreeing with you I just don’t know anything about it, but the series seems pretty entertaining I just don’t want to learn falsehoods with the exception of entertainment

[@therider990]

@@joelengland8429 in 50 years let's make a historic movie about the first black president of the USA. But let's have the actor be Asian or Hispanic!

[@adambonot2439]

Does historian really use a smilley? See ya on Fortnite, bro.

[@sanzrich9887]

@@therider990 he was black. Please stop thinking that everything great has to be white 😕

[@axebattler6604]

WE

[@megabeep8460]

WUZ

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

KANGZZ

[@SynDeus]

'N SHIEEET

[@blankblank2370]

HOL' UP

[@kingdomheartshalo]

*lip smack*

[@mjboyle7317]

What a shame. History Channel absolutely got it wrong. Insulting to Lebanese ancestors and Historians alike.

[@stevencorrea6946]

So.

[@fabolousnature3873]

@Tunisie Drama الدراما التونسية he is phoneician by descent

[@dweller9981]

@@fabolousnature3873 he was born 500 years after Carthage was founded. He almost certainly was of majority berber DNA with distant Phoenician. He probably looked like a modern day north African. Not balck. Not white. Not Lebanese although there is similarity beetwen Lebanese and Tunisians.

[@stra8drop190]

Here goes the wypipo, whitewashing history. 😒 My ancestors were in that country, before the Arab nomad, arrived there.

[@troggerbeard2355]

@@dweller9981 He was from an important patrician family, which includes that there were probably way less mixing in his DNA than in most, as the Phoenicians made a really large part of the aristocracy. However, there was of course mixing with the Berber aristocracy, no doubts about it. But I think it doesn't really matter : You have Italians that look like syrian people, syrian peoples that look like algerians, algerians that look like french peoples... So yeah let's not get into a weird purity test. I think that what our comrad was trying to say is that they're just trying to erase our (mediterranean/middle eastern) history in the profit of some other communities they want to appeal to. I think the Lebanese and the Tunisian alike have reasons to feel insulted, as the founders of Carthage were the phoenicians from Tyr (in modern-day Lebanon), they had a big historical, cultural and genetic influence there. And the Tunisians are the descendants of those Carthaginan, genetically, historically and culturally. So I guess we really don't need to fight over it, we share a common heritage !

[@beachmaster3486]

You'd think a history channel would try to get the race of its main character right.

[@cybersasho]

its propaganda google kalergi plan

[@knightsgamingstudio]

He was closer to being black then white. He may not have had dark skin but he definitely didn't have white skin. Whites don't come from North Africa only Europe

[@mistaseeforce]

they did

[@KC-zz2ih]

We might think that today for the most part, but there were and still are to a degree "white" people from North Africa.

[@l.johnson2015]

They did😊

[@Numedian16648]

HANNIBAL wasn't black. And I m from Tunisia btw

[@Numedian16648]

@@MegaGman50 yes what we see in real history and real statue not in video made in 2020

[@MegaGman50]

@Anime 4Lyfe Can we just say he was a human being who defeated the Romans putting a label on him would undo all his achievements

[@ryanthegray]

@@MegaGman50 well he didnt defeated rome at the end though lol. also he was not black , there are coins of him and his father they dont even look sub saharan black

[@berserk9085]

@Papaskull876 than white people with light skin and blue eyes are als indigenous in norh Africa, you genius.

[@berserk9085]

@Papaskull876 really? and you need more brain. from wich region white people come from?

[@Kungs.]

Hannibal of Wakanda.

[@MegaBaddog]

hahaahahahahahahahhaahhhahaaah

[@eurasiaacaci.-110]

Next: Stalin but native american

[@jl9211]

Hannibal was Phoenician (Lebanese). Carthage was a Phoenician settlement in an already caucasian part of Africa. HANNIBAL WAS NOT BLACK AND YOU WUZ NOT KANGS! GET OVER IT!

[@AfterlifeGames]

Do you have to wear sunscreen in the summer time when you go outside? Or do you wear an ugly trucker cap to protect your face? If so, just shut up.

[@hillaryshekelshoahcohengol2205]

Don't you know that there's a magical line in the Mediterranean sea that turns your skin black once you cross it?

[@half-lifexen1646]

white people aren't the only race to get sunburns, also some white people naturally don't get sunburns, ahahaha

[@chrischammas1]

+Gillian Rosheuvel you culturally appropriating? Hannibal was middle eastern.... Part of the ruling class of Carthage. There is someone in the upper reaches of the media mafia trying to trick you into believing this. Stop appropriating Arab history and culture...

[@half-lifexen1646]

Stop appropriating culture directly from the arabs, why are you trying to erase arab history?

[@Lilly-xt5fs]

hannibal is not black

[@KingExituS]

History channel just crossed the line between History and Myth. What's next, are we gonna see a documentary about black ancient Egyptians?!

[@Kira-bo2lq]

No they'll be played by British, Australian, and American White people, just like they've been doing all along. I hoped you were outraged by that as well.

[@KingExituS]

Chalky White What, you want me to spoon feed you, search for Phoenician genetic datas yourself, you moron, neither history nor genetics have offered any proof of black origin of Carthaginians. I didn't say anything racist, just pointed out some unpleasant facts, well unpleasant for some certain people. You are nothing more than an oversenstive idiot who takes offense at anything that contradicts your wishes or believes.

[@igolfjtweetler4097]

Can't be far away, if they can appropriate Hannibal why not Ramses? I know his mummy is the museum with red straight hair, saw it with my own eyes, but that won't bother them.

[@bancolino]

LDN EDD Probably because everything we've been conditioned to believe is "real" has been whitewashed for centuries.

[@savioblanc]

This is a channel that promoted the concept that aliens built everything in history. What were you expecting from the "History" channel?

[@sonofbarca9642]

as a north African berber i fell very offended by this ,all the roles should be played by north Africans not some nigerian black guys, the actor who plays hannibal barca role must be a north african actor like Saïd Taghmaoui, if this robbery of history continue we well soon see julius caesar and genghis khan roles played by some senegalese dude (shame on you history channel).

[@PIBOSSxxx]

We have black people in Tunisia what you gonna do about that ?

[@Henk-jv7ro]

@@PIBOSSxxx yeah, 0,5%. Be proud of that lol

[@PIBOSSxxx]

@@Henk-jv7ro HHHHhhhhh WE are on AFRICA lol we are Africa LloOoooL

[@PIBOSSxxx]

@@Henk-jv7ro very reasict ppl they want to hide they real race of Berber (mix of dark brown and black skin) I am not balack but what ppl see this offensive when see a black man or brown man a great leader

[@Henk-jv7ro]

@@PIBOSSxxx are the moors that invaded Spain black Africans? The true berbers?

[@Palestine4Ever169]

Next in the history channel George Washington starring by Denzel Washington

[@jefftheposter]

Real black scholars won't even entertain your ignorance. Caucasians are derived from albinos, meaning that their ancestors are black people. Foolish people like you treat Africans like they have no history until you find them in the earliest civilizations like Ancient Kemet. You're white because you suffer from Albinism, a genetic mutation, a mutation of the black gene. There were 'Moors In Heraldry' before racists like you were in power and you can see the black heads for yourself through the crests and coat of arms. You're an albino, not some Aryan god from outer space lmao.

[@quasimobius]

lol, or Wesley Snipes playing as Charles Darwin.

[@-3696]

@@jefftheposter Moors were not even black

[@-3696]

@@jefftheposter Look at Sub Saharan Albinos, compare their features with Caucasoids: Arabs ,North Africans or Europeans. Now do they look the same? Color is not everything you Idiot.

[@fodesarr7772]

@@-3696 is black

[@Judge_Magister]

Were Tunisian or Lebanese actors really too expansive to hire for the job? Come on history why do you call yourself a history channel?

[@Judge_Magister]

@Helen Slater You do know Afrika is the name of the Roman province roughly todays Tunesia? Only later the whole continent was named Afrika.

[@anirudhsilverking5761]

@@Judge_Magister I know, arabs named it Ifriqiya

[@kl6544]

@@Judge_Magister africa = black then???

[@phonkenjoyer7072]

@@kl6544 they wanna make us all black

[@MessiahComing]

Okay, but the Phoenicians weren't black people. They looked closer to what Lebanese or Jewish people look like today. A bit between a white person and an Arab. North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa are very different worlds.

[@MessiahComing]

This is a severe case of WE WUZ KANGS. The Phoenicians were a Semitic people. Sub-Saharan Africans are not Semites. The closest relatives to the Phoenicians were other Semites, namely the Jews, the Arabs, the Lebanese, the Egyptians, and the Assyrians. These people still exist to this day. They are not Sub-Saharan either. I'm not saying they didn't interact. What I'm saying is that they were a distinct people with traces that still exist today, and you are conflating them all because they lived in Africa.

[@awate-mm5px]

+Red Judas lol do you know the reason the Romans called the North africans Moors look up the word before you blabber and look up Roman records of the period in regards to egypt buddy anyone who lived there or visited will tell you most of it history is located still in the areas where black african indigenous Egyptian live not any migrants who mixed with arabs or franks or romans or turks your argument is like someone trying to attribute the inca and maya civilization to spain cose eveyone speak Spanish in Mexico today lol its just rubbish

[@MessiahComing]

awate2014 Please learn how to use grammar. That was impossible to read.

[@awate-mm5px]

+Red Judas hahaha you got my point but its a typical thing of inbreds like you to resort to delay tactics hahaha, if you don't have historical/scientific data to share stop producing farts and shut up. You been schooled chump

[@MessiahComing]

Well evidently you have never been to school. Literally could not read what you were saying.

[@lamiaboukhris8847]

carthage was a phenician city like many other phenicians cities across the Mediterranean. phenicians are a semitic people from today's lebanon. not Black African. Hannibal was from an aristocratic phenician family. generals from father to son. his mother was iberian as his father was posted on the phenicians cities in today's Spain. carthage did not have a carthaginians army. all phenician outposts used mercenaries from the surrounding populations to build their armies. only the high ranking generals were carthaginians including hamilcar (his father and hannibal) hasdrubal his brother and brother in law. none of these were black Africans. when it comes to carthage the army recruited the numedian berbers to defend the city. Numedians represented by their berber king Massinissa were not black Africans either.

[@Mrk3lly]

Wrong ! They were black and you even indicated that. Might want to re read what the bible says and scholars. Semetic pertians to black not white

[@LouieTzepher]

you are a racist.

[@dantoumabangoura3947]

Yor father Was black

[@medlldono6391]

from the statue, Rome has made for Hannibal it's quite clear his no dark skin beside Levantine people nor the local Amazigh tribes! I believe this is a mistake

[@realtalkgeoff4021]

RealTalkGeoff RealTalkGeoff 1 second ago Ignorant comments. Phoenicians were Black African people. The people of Tunisia today represent the people who won the wars over centuries of human migration (i.e. Arabs, French). If you cant understand why the people of Tunisia today look completely different than the people of Hannibal's time, then just look at United States, Canada, or Australia. The population of those countries are not reflective of what they were centuries ago, let alone thousands of years ago. The race/appearance of populations change over time, so if you can't understand that 2400 years ago indigenous people in Africa looked African, then you would probably have issues understanding how people in South Dakota or Manitoba or Sydney (Australia) were not mostly Caucasian 400 years ago.

[@metalema6]

WE WUZ CROSSIN DA ALPS N SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

[@WildWolfTunisia]

Hannibal was never black.

[@OllihuAkbar]

Not even once?

[@quantaviousedwards4905]

ذئب المعرفة Yes it was

[@jafredboatwright1290]

Jesus was never white so we're even.

[@PIBOSSxxx]

Lol there is a balck people in Tunisia and they talk like us not from lebnone or PHONICANS YOU HAVE YO KNOW THAT BARABRIANS ARE NOT WHITE

[@mikii5939]

@@PIBOSSxxx wait what did you say?

[@fuckakakaka]

"""""HISTORY""""" CHANNEL

[@cybersasho]

oy vey

[@James10899]

*Smacks lips* AYO HOL' UP

[@augustgreig9420]

bix nood

[@underseaboat]

YOU BE SAYIN?

[@azertyuiop7893]

WE WUZ FONISHAN N SHEIT ?

[@SamiSami-ur5jc]

*collects welfare*

[@hartljo]

SO YOU BE SAYIN'

[@user-ez2jz2vi3d]

You realize that Phoenicians, who the Carthaginians descend from weren't black?

[@Mrk3lly]

Well not according to the scholars. They say they where black. Nobody on here is a scholar or scientist yet wanna throw out their opinions all because the truth is being exposed. Smh white supremacy has brainwashed everybody.

[@Baba-yv6ml]

@@Mrk3lly Which scholars?

[@benjamintorres9211]

Moon the woke scholars

[@amoun5062]

@@benjamintorres9211 the scholars of Kangz university

[@AllezThierryHenry]

Charles Jr this has nothing to do with white people. Carthaginians were a mix of Canaanite and North African Berber(amazigh) or the ancestors of current North Africans. Canaanites were in modern day Lebanon, and Lebanese have 93% genetic similarity to the ancient canaanites. Lebanese and North Africans look fairly similar already and they look nothing like Western Europeans I.e Hannibal and the carthaginians were tanned and middle eastern looking but not Arabian and definitely not sub Saharan African. The romans didn’t whitewash history, they didn’t call carthaginians black because the ancient Romans and Carthaginian probably looked fairly similar already

[@Unbreak00]

As a north african, berbere I feel so offended. When you play with the history of people you play with there identities, then with there rights. I can't accept it. I consider that as an attack. NORTH AFRICAN, WE WERE NOT BLACK AND WE ARE NOT BLACK. CALL ME RACIST I DON'T CARE. PS: this is the same thing with pharaons and Moorishs there were not black. RESPECT US!

[@SailorGoon91]

You all are invaders/colonizers, so you are right, you have nothing to do with Africa or its people. You guys arent even human, you are virus sent here from the bowels of the deep. You have no affliation with earth period.

[@stevencorrea6946]

Shut the front door

[@matiusbond6052]

Unbreakoo ..offende by WHA!!!!!!??? u people didn't exist in Africa until the 7th century AD

[@NativeBrownboy]

Amazing History channel. Continue the "accuracy" of your work.

[@radwaelmaghraby4463]

political correctness means giving up to afrocentrism i guess

[@jaimenazaryan860]

What accuracy , the guy wasn’t even black ,, he was phénician (modern day lebanese people ) and lebanese look nothing like Black people

[@mrflute1258]

@Dragon Of The West that's not even Hannibal on the coin, the coin doesn't even originate in North Africa lol. Hannibal Barca was Phoenician (Lebanon), His father was Phoenician. Carthage was founded by Phoenicians. So Hannibal isn't black

[@yearbyguy4470]

@@mrflute1258 the truth hurts huh

[@mrflute1258]

@@yearbyguy4470 yeah, hurts for Afrocentrists

[@kentaroiai9473]

I'm not even European and I know Hannibal wasn't black

[@Power2315]

Hannibal isn't European though

[@joellaz9836]

Hannibal most likely looked like the modern Lebanese man.

[@ba-dy8hr]

​@@joellaz9836 hannibal is tunisian

[@shaunhawkins44]

This man created Wakanda!

[@jaimenazaryan860]

Even wakanda is just à fiction , no Black state in africa is even near the advanced sociéty of Wakanda

[@shaunhawkins44]

@@jaimenazaryan860 I was jokin

[@Droo444]

Namor?

[@zakaria497]

Hannibal was not black, phonecian people in cartaghe mixed with the berbers were not black. The berbs are not black they are more alike Arabs but they have been in North Africa since 5000 bc

[@zakaria497]

Nati Natan you imbecile, I never even mentioned white people. Shut your mouth you ignorant fool

[@tyer37]

Nati Natan berbere are the in the north of africa since 10 000 bc.

[@zakaria497]

Nati Natan Plz bro you should study more about this than be talking like a ignorant fool

[@VIXI2008]

as someone who is of arabic descent i feel offended right now

[@gstar30001]

shut up

[@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm4244]

I agree I am part Arab and they should of made hanibal Arab (Lebanese)

[@kindofbluenyc]

We're you offended by Eric Bana?

[@TheRedemptionRain]

Because Hannibal is of Arabic/middle eastern decent.

[@queengorgo3326]

Why does it matter?

[@LibertarianUSA1982]

He wasn't black. I should have known History channel can't just show history they have to make it politically correct.

[@YA-kr4fr]

That’s really depressing but the comment section gives hope. only time will tell us

[@kushpaladin]

it couldn't be any more obvious History channel is ran by leftist pushing their "woke" agenda

[@LibertarianUSA1982]

@@kushpaladin soon they will say that Jesus was a black african

[@Joke_Bidumb]

This isn't even politically correct, they're basically erasing North African people from their own history. What you have here isn't political correctness, it's woke, neoracist historic revisionism created by ignorant American so called "liberals".

[@LibertarianUSA1982]

@@Joke_Bidumb what ever it is, its pathetic.

[@knightofcaliban146]

Cannae was not an ambush. Trebia and Trasimine, the two battles leading up to Cannae were ambushes. What made Cannae so remarkable was because Hannibal performed a double envelopment on a larger army with a smaller army, and defeated the Romans on the open field.

[@williamschlosser77]

That misrepresentation bothered you too? Absolute bs, that did not show Hannibals brilliance, or the mettle of his men.

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

The prelude did involve a small ambush-but it was not what caused anything bad

[@richardlew3667]

Why am I not surprised this is the same channel that tried to convince me that aliens built the Egyptian pyramids?

[@Esme-yo4np]

😂😂😂 They're obsessed with north Africans trying so hard to blackwash our history

[@Droo444]

Stop convincing yourself your entitled to the point where we have to cater to ur dishonesty.

[@joebrunner8278]

THAS RITE!

[@dair72]

*Das rite

[@IamZanderChen]

That's right! Bright it out!

[@fastingislife3766]

Joe Brunner 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@user-ow1qs7jo7f]

Kangs

[@tulud]

JULIUS CAESAS WUZ BLACK

[@TheGASMass]

Not black.. Olive, but yeah.. ethnic.

[@tulud]

>tanned people are 'ethnic' lmao

[@DeweyDWhite]

The Joker “ Julius Caesas wuz black” Your response to the video is a feeble attempt to gaslight. Ergo you are a ( not the ) joker. ( The joker of Batman fame has skills you are lacking. )

[@dr.manofculture1492]

@@DeweyDWhite there's no evidence Hannibal was black.

[@TH3USUALSUSPECT]

A Phoenician (modern day Lebanon/Syria) with an Iberian mother, turns into Idris Elba. Get a grip "History Channel".

[@realtalkgeoff4021]

1 second ago Ignorant comments. Phoenicians were Black African people. The people of Tunisia today represent the people who won the wars over centuries of human migration (i.e. Arabs, French). If you cant understand why the people of Tunisia today look completely different than the people of Hannibal's time, then just look at United States, Canada, or Australia. The population of those countries are not reflective of what they were centuries ago, let alone thousands of years ago. The race/appearance of populations change over time, so if you can't understand that 2400 years ago indigenous people in Africa looked African, then you would probably have issues understanding how people in South Dakota or Manitoba or Sydney (Australia) were not mostly Caucasian 400 years ago.

[@wedongo]

Definitely not Idris dickhead 🙄 I think u may need glasses

[@hussamazzabi7911]

@@realtalkgeoff4021 Libyans are Portraited as faire skinned people on the walls of ancient Egypt...

[@mauricemartin2982]

Why argue who Phoenicians are? We need to argue about who the descendants of rome is.

[@djago3580]

White tears active

[@konstantinoskalavrezos5273]

We wuz Karthaginianz n shiet man, on Baal hammon cuz

[@xcharlesbronsonx]

Sheeeeeeiiiittt son!

[@RamónSalazar-t2y]

Shieettttt

[@HisbeautifulTruth-nl1ch]

Everybody's so original...

[@0rcus]

Stop trying to steal the history of the Mediterranean people. Hannibal and the Phoenicians weren't sub-Saharan Africans. "A research team has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician dubbed the 'Young Man of Byrsa' or 'Ariche.' This is the first ancient DNA to be obtained from Phoenician remains. Ariche was found to have belonged to a rare European haplogroup that likely links his maternal ancestry to locations somewhere on the North Mediterranean coast, most probably on the Iberian Peninsula."

[@0rcus]

Not a lot and not sub-Saharan.

[@TheGrateful-]

These are credible historians who went to renown universities. You're not one so deal with it

[@MrBrick68]

Phoenician people back then were Black people, yeah I know, the truth hurts.

[@nagual1992]

@@TheGrateful- "Credible historians", you do realize the History Channel (who casts the actors) is the same network that brought us Mayan 2012 doomsday prophecies, and hosts the show "Ancient Aliens" right?

[@QuintusLiviusPriscus]

+History How DARE YOU change history for the sake of popularity and fads. Phoenicians came from near east, they were NOT sub-Saharan Africans.

[@ocky88]

***** oh, you know EXACTLY what I am referring to. It is why your type spend your days and nights whining about #WhiteGenocide. You can find exhaustive think pieces, articles, discussion board threads, social media hashtags, etc. about it . Only you lie and pretend like non-whites are the reason for it. Reality is that your greedy imperialist ancestors are the reason the white race (as we know it) won't be around in 200 years Your race (or the phenotype that defines your race) only exists because of extremely cold environments. When your people went on invasion escapades into tropical climates, they sealed your fate. The traits of whiteness (low melanin, lighter eye colors, thinner hair) are no longer adaptive for most areas in which whites reside. So those traits will lessen with each generation. You may not have absorbed all of that, but you need to be worried about YOUR future not OUR (people of African descent) past

[@ocky88]

***** and because this is WAY too good to not exploit, that Neanderthal DNA is also part of what is destroying white birth rates www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3629203/Neanderthal-inbreeding-left-humans-WEAKER-Non-Africans-lower-fitness-levels-genetic-burden-left-ancient-relatives.html

[@ocky88]

***** you are GOING EXTINCT. The end. :-) And lol at you calling others primitive when you have NEANDERTHAL DNA. I know that scientists suddenly tried to develop a new history for those animals *after* it was proven that non blacks (especially whites) share genes with them, but nah. They were knuckle dragging, failed humans who are now GONE just like white people will soon be. Lie to yourself on the way if you want, but it is going down.

[@ocky88]

***** no. This intelligent black woman who's owning you in this debate is proving that white people lie to yourselves. Overnight you will ignore 100s of years of scientific and archeological evidence regarding the animals your ancestors interbred with and pretend they were somehow civilized once the genetic link is found. P.S. the rising AIDS capital is RUSSIA. You are done. P.P.S. black people can abort every 3rd conception and it won't help your kind stick around. Sweet dreams.

[@ocky88]

***** since you are waving the white flag now by just swearing over and over. I will let you out of your misery. Get a life. Go find a mate and reproduce before you end up like your Neanderthal ancestors. Sticking your nose in African history isn't going to solve your issue.

[@0rcus]

Time to stop rewriting history, "History" channel. "A research team has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician dubbed the 'Young Man of Byrsa' or 'Ariche.' This is the first ancient DNA to be obtained from Phoenician remains. Ariche was found to have belonged to a rare European haplogroup that likely links his maternal ancestry to locations somewhere on the North Mediterranean coast, most probably on the Iberian Peninsula." Genetics don't lie.

[@wais_45]

There is no evidence of Hannibal's ethnicity. What you essentially posted was a whole lot of nothing.

[@0rcus]

Genetics are a whole lot of nothing? Okay... Go back to your fantasy.

[@TH3USUALSUSPECT]

HOL UP!

[@ronnyvesper7565]

Plot twist: Southern Europe was once inhabited by "Negroids" until mixing with Neanderthals :D

[@GGman2019]

no but the people who write the papers do

[@Sturminfantrist]

My father is algerian born grow up in tunisia, his Father and his Mother was of berber origin and iam proud of it and now this docu comes and make us all looking like subsaharan people, Hannibal was Phoenician they look similar like todays arabs.

[@JUA-AFRICAINE]

Lol 😂

[@totalwarbest8702]

@@JUA-AFRICAINE The truth is hard? Go away.

[@Esme-yo4np]

hannibal was born in north Africa Tunisia and he was of Phoenician decent, neither Phoenicians nor native north Africans are black. Sub-Saharan Africans need to stop hating their ancestors so much and start claiming their Sub-Saharan history instead of trying to claim other people's history it's embarrassing

[@eyuin5716]

WTF? Hannibal wasn't back! (He wasn't white either). His true race would have been comparable to modern day Tunisians! You know, WHERE CARTHAGE WAS! As an example, just because India is in Asia doesn't mean that it's inhabitants are "Asian" like the Chinese.

[@realtalkgeoff4021]

Ignorant comments. Phoenicians were Black African people. The people of Tunisia today represent the people who won the wars over centuries of human migration (i.e. Arabs, French). If you cant understand why the people of Tunisia today look completely different than the people of Hannibal's time, then just look at United States, Canada, or Australia. The population of those countries are not reflective of what they were centuries ago, let alone thousands of years ago. The race/appearance of populations change over time, so if you can't understand that 2400 years ago indigenous people in Africa looked African, then you would probably have issues understanding how people in South Dakota or Manitoba or Sydney (Australia) were not mostly Caucasian 400 years ago.

[@boommeletop5443]

@@realtalkgeoff4021 wait, arent phoenician originated from nowdays israel and syria then expand to the north coast of africa how come they were black.

[@datukaruma1563]

@@boommeletop5443 It's pointless. These are people who says Hitler was Black.

[@jaimenazaryan860]

Real talk geoff dude your people never had any empire , back in the days your people were either cannibales running in the savana, or captured by people from other civilisations (romans, carthaginians , arabs ) and Turned into slaves ,,,thats the ugly thruth deal with it

[@janegeary6013]

AYO HOL UP, the reason "Phoenecia" meant "Purple land" in Greek was because it was the source of purple dye, used for clothing. It has nothing to do with their skin tone, DNA analysis has confirmed Phoenicians (and Carthaginians) are European. Purple was hard to make back then, this is why purple is the color of royalty, because only they could afford it.

[@boobio1]

Is this true?

[@Egalitarianjay02]

Phoenicia was located in modern Lebanon. The people spoke a Semitic language. They were not Europeans. I would like to see your DNA analysis that confirms that Phoenicians or Carthaginians were European. Ancient North Africa was phenotypically diverse. There were light and dark-skinned people in the region. Here's an Anthropological source for reference: The later movement of foreign peoples into northern Africa is well known and may explain most of the current variability. However, the work of classical European writers suggest a longstanding variability in Maghreban populations. Bates (1914) presents the ethnology of the ancient Maghreb as seen by classical European writers. The detail is such that there is little cause to doubt that these writers were familiar with the region. Snowden (1970) and Desanges (1981) reference various writers’ physical descriptions of the ancient Maghreb’s inhabitants. In addition to the presence of fair-skinned blonds, various “Ethiopian” or “part-Ethiopian” groups are described, near the coast and on the southern slopes of the Atlas mountains. “Ethiopians,” meaning dark-skinned peoples usually having “ulotrichous” (wooly) hair, are noted in various Greek accounts and European coinage (Snowden, 1970). Hiernaux (1975) interprets the finding of “subsaharan” population affinities in living Maghrebans as being solely the result of the medieval transsaharan slave trade; it is clear that this is not the case. Furthermore, the blacks of the ancient Maghreb were apparently not foreign or a caste. Pittard (1924) notes with surprise the race of the remains found in the Sarcophagus of the Priestess of’ Tanit in Carthage, noting them to be Negroid (see also Bertholon and Chantre, 1913). Source: Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48 (1990)

[@sleek50]

that DNA test wasn't confirming their white it showing they mixed with European stop spreading lies

[@sleek50]

Fire and Wind stop the bs lolol

[@Egalitarianjay02]

Fire and Wind If the Phoenicians weren't Semites then what were they? Not all Semites are Jews. Judaism has nothing to do with Hannibal. And you don't know whether or not Hannibal was Black. I would say that he probably wasn't but it is not impossible for him to have had SOME Black African ancestry.

[@rammalammadingdong1]

cant wait to see Russel crowe in the new cassius clay biopic

[@industryuplinks2668]

So I guess ISIS and the Terrorists in North Africa are white people too!!! ....LOL I highly suggest that you take some time and learn about the Arab and Islamic Conquest of North Africa!!

[@rammalammadingdong1]

Industry Uplinks yes

[@danield.3408]

@@industryuplinks2668 Yes learn about the Arab and Islamic conquest of North Africa... ~900 years after Hannibal Barca lived and died.

[@Andu_music]

Nothing wrong with this depiction of Hannibal except his complexion. His nose and lips on the coins depicting him are huge and obvious african features, so they got that correct. But based on his location of North Africa he was most likely a mix, black african and north african(arab) look. This guy is full sub saharan african which idk if is accurate.

[@broabi7690]

Hanibal wasn't black 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@broabi7690]

@@batissta44 bro you are stupid 🤦🏻‍♂️ black people are in middle and south afrika

[@broabi7690]

@@batissta44 how does my statement sound „hurt“ its the same as saying King Zulu wasn‘t white.

[@randyandy98]

@@batissta44 He wasn’t seeing as Carthage was founded by Semitic people from modern day Lebanon

[@taylangolcuk1257]

"History" Channel. Portray army battle as 1v1 duels and "CHAAARRRGEEE". Great job guys.

[@whosQuality]

WE WUZ KANGZ AN SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIT!

[@oystersmiling88]

AYO, HOL UP

[@gamohell]

*speaks in welfare*

[@MTGANDA]

*steals*

[@emperorromanov9035]

*gets shot* KANGZ

[@ApollonianSoldier]

*drops pants* DAT WE WUZ

[@mariobadia4553]

Botmin lol

[@templeoftheboom]

Another foolish, fantasy and unaccurate documentary....thank you "History" channel!

[@vincem2759]

Jelly Jelly?

[@MegaBaddog]

@@vincem2759 jelly of bantus? hahahahahahahahahahahahaaah

[@kevin084life]

Hannibal might not have been 100% sub-Saharan black, but he definitely wasn’t white. Since it was around the time the Berbers and Arabs migrated to northern Africa, through years of settling and mixing, he had darker skin with African and Arab features.

[@dorusburk]

@@kevin084life he was brown Like think of a brown white person and that’s technically what you’ll get

[@HDManMad]

As a Tunisian this is an absolute disrespect to our history. Imagine if we made the romans black? It makes no sense. So why make Hannibal black? Just because its in Africa doesn't make him automatically black. North Africans are tanned not black ffs

[@Joke_Bidumb]

White American liberals and African Americans are the only people on the planet who think he was black. They also don't give a F about disrespecting North African people and their history.

[@fFIeXi]

You're acting like there isn't no black tunisia come on now btw hanibal story happend before Tunisia even exist it was BC, Tunisia came way after and so you know before it became Arab it was black first

[@HDManMad]

@@fFIeXi You're opinion is invalid as you're not Tunisian. Also, there are barely any black people here, its very rare

[@fFIeXi]

@@HDManMad lol my opinion is very valid since we are neighbors Im maroccan precisely black maroccan and I know for fact there are black not just in morocco but also Tunisia you can say it's not a lot of them there but they're still there, I heard so many people even my people saying the same about morocco that they isn't a lot of black when they don't know that I'm from there too, but I can tell you black population is big, I also know that many Arabs there are mostly racist that's why they don't want to acknowledge us but it's all good we're still there

[@totalwarbest8702]

@@fFIeXi Just go away and stop stealing our Tunisian history. I am tired of this. Carthage had a similar or the same climate as Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy, a Mediterranean climate. The Carthaginians probably looked like these peoples, with brown/black hair and a darker skin. But black? No. Fun fact : The Romans were also black.

[@yassertabikh5362]

As a Lebanese person with Phonecian/Canaanite descent. I find your portrayal of Hannibal as being black extremely offensive and a spit in the face of my ancestors. Shame

[@Palestine4Ever169]

Just an Anvil truly bro Our BEAUTIFUL MENA ppl aren’t black

[@alexandermiddleton9408]

Absolutely trash he was not sub Saharan African.

[@HisbeautifulTruth-nl1ch]

Correct, he was not sub Saharan. He was N African before N Africa was conquered by Arabs and Europeans, pushing the Black N Africans south creating "sub saharan" Africans.

[@andyb1336]

we wuz conquerin an shiett

[@mistaseeforce]

yep :P

[@vishnupthampy6562]

I have a strong feeling that they are going to turn samurais and famous Japanese rulers black. 😂😂

[@ajarofmayonnaise3250]

There were one black samurai

[@Shadow28TV]

They gotta be "politically correct" lmao

[@brandoncaudill1047]

You picked a picture of a black guy who dresses like Wayne Brady ..FAIL!!!😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 You new trolls are garbage at this.😂😂😂

[@elcamino4lifes]

Pick up a book and go to libraries world wide and you will see there were many so called black warriors. I guess you never heard of iconoclasm 🤣😁😂 and there were so called black or dark skinned melonatied samurais as the original races were black people from Moab and Ammon who went into Asia. But guess if online don't tell you that you won't believe it. Study up before it too late 👏

[@winrylust6947]

@@Shadow28TV white

[@samyco24]

As a Carthaginian I am truly disgusted by this....What else

[@Ma1q444]

Lmao Hannibal existed 2000 years ago you have no idea what he looked like your basically claiming he looked like you because your from the same area that’s like saying all native Americans were actually white because now that’s what they looked like.

[@Chess_Enthusiast]

@@Ma1q444 He has better than claim than anybody else. What else do you expect other than people looking similar to their native population?

[@Esme-yo4np]

​@@Ma1q444the population of north Africa is the same for thousands of years lol we're the descendants of our ancestors

[@Ma1q444]

@@Esme-yo4np I think it’s pretty ignorant to think ancient humans that used to reside were you are now look the same as you. Ancient Carthage does not even exist no more it has been ravaged by wars. Let me give you another example in 1778 Argentina black population was around 40% now that percentage is in the 3-5 range, this is what happens when your country is a huge migration site, now that was only 300 years imagine what 2000 years of change can do.

[@Esme-yo4np]

@@Ma1q444 Carthage the empire doesn't exist anymore but the descendants of the once carthagians are modern day Tunisians. Most nations in the world haven't really changed, we look the same as our ancestors from thousands years ago. The only countries that experienced this change are countries that experienced mass immigration like the USA, Canada, France.. Tunisia never experienced that, the studies on our DNA show that the average Tunisian has over 80% native north African DNA (amazighen). The carthagians were mostly native north Africans and the carthagian elites were mixed with Phoenician as the were of Phoenician descent.

[@hekikoka5792]

Hannibal Barca was a Carthagenian aristocrat stemming from one of the most prominent families of the city! He was not a black man and claiming otherwise is historically inaccurate! It's akin to saying Alexander the Great was Indian!

[@Tunisianbeauties]

our ministries of culture and foreign affairs must protest and oblige this channel to remove this series from all of their platforms and apologize

[@papisnuggs7771]

Phoenicians are from modern day Lebanon. Berbers are the indigenous ppl of North Africa. So Carthage is a Phoenician colony in modern day Tunisia. Do the math. Carthage had zeeeeeeero to do with sub-Saharan blacks. What a sad thing to see.....and crazy of them to think ppl are that stupid to fall for this woke history robbing garbage.

[@jarodguidotti5903]

I really wish you idiots with no education would stop commenting on history

[@underseaboat]

WE WUZ HISTORY N SHEEIT

[@maxmustermann7680]

R.I.P Historical authenticity accuracy. Hello Rise of The Political Correctness.

[@memyself4ever1]

Cognitive Dissonance is coming to a racist end. Stories have more historical content nowadays. White supremacy is falling!

[@IsmaelChamu]

I thought y'all didn't see color? Why is everyone all bootie tickled?

[@user-xn8od6qw5k]

Tell that to the yahuuds

[@terrybunch7313]

WE WUZ CARTHAGINIANS

[@dominusalbaniae7812]

List of Great black Civilizations 1- Carthaginians 2- Romans 3- Ancient Greeks 4- Ancient Persians 5- Sayians

[@shrek19yearsago78]

I heard Napoleon and his troops were black

[@visaodissidente5560]

WE WUZ HANNIBAL N KANZ N SHEEEIT!

[@tnmagician]

Why you painted this great legend in black that’s soo disrespectful and changing my history as a Tunisian

[@hannibal1823]

Lol its funny how hannibal is black