Was Hannibal Barca Black? #shorts

[zeppelin]

There's a reason historians and Anthropologists separate North Africa and Subsaharan Africa..

[clover]

Anyone thinking "being from africa means black" is so damn stupid. Africa is a whole continent with a lot of very different people

[DrDOOM-xsjm]

For some reason people don't seem to understand that Africa is HUGE and North Africans aren't the samr as South Africans.

[historyfan]

Similar to the problem people seem to have with Cleopatra. I have had several arguments with people who insist she was black. Not only was the woman a Macedonian Greek but her family tree didn't even have any branches. I mean the Ptolemys sure believed in keeping it in the family.

[rafaelglopezroman]

People seriously forget there is a reason we used the term Sub-Saharan when describing black africans. North Africans are generally arabic, semite, berber, helenic or latin descent or mixed. They are not germans but certainly not Ethiopians either, in terms of skin color.

[benjaminmclaren]

most people don't get that Africa is big. Like, super big. like 30 million square Kilometres big.
Any continent that huge is going to be diverse with its culture, ethnicity, religion, language, everything really.

[gm]

Same guy probably thought cleopatra was black

[BertzTriscut]

There's also the fact that people from the Saharan area generally aren't black either. Darker skinned, sure, but people seem to think "Africa=Hershey's bar."

[NorthSeaRaider]

If you thought this was controversial just wait until somebody says “the Egyptians were black”

[vicenzostella]

Another interesting thing about Hannibal: His war elephant might have been the last Syrian Elephant in history.
For those that don't know, the Syrian elephant was the largest species of Asian elephant that survived into historic times, reaching an average height of 11.5 ft (bigger than the Indian species). Tying it back to Hannibal, his elephant was named "Surus" aka The Syrian and was known to be the largest one around. So, if this is to be believed, that makes Hannibal's elephant the last of its kind, and it went down swinging. What a badass.

[pyrhusofeprius]

Afrocentrists argument… if they’re from Africa they’re black. Like people on different continents can’t look different. Big difference between South East Asia, India, and the Middle East.

[onyxxxyno]

"He was African, he was very clearly black" tell that to Morocco 😂

[Pancasilaist]

saying that hannibal is black because he was born in Africa is like saying Elon musk is black because he was born in Africa.

[pohiena]

I always fascinated when people try to correct someone's “actual” ethnicity only to be more wrong.
Edit: to be clear I am referring to the guy responded not Stakuyi.

[cloroxbleach]

Shit, even if Hannibal were a dark-skinned Numidian he STILL wouldn't be black (as in Sub-Saharan) but Berber. These people need to promote Nubia and Aksum instead rather than trying to claim North Africa as black.

[Bagman]

I'm still amaze that there are people who think everyone in Africa must be black 😅

[nathanstautzenberger]

the classic "person from africa must be black" stereotype

it's just as bad as the "all spanish people are brown" stereotype, at least here in america

too many internet "geniuses" these days don't realize that the only reason central and south america are "hispanic" is because spanish speaking europeans from spain conquered those areas

[elmersbalm]

The Sahara desert is a big fat border. In contrast, the Mediterranean sea was a big fat highway. Guess which communities intermingled the most.

[baconatorva]

White doesn’t just mean blonde hair and blue eyes or Western European features. Olive skinned Sicilians are white, Alexander The Great was white, curly red haired Jordanians are white, the entire Ptolemaic dynasty was white, etc.

[Ismail-Ibrahim]

Even if you assume that Hannibal didn’t have any Phoenician in him, he still wouldn’t be black because people from the North African coasts are not black.