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- Subject: Re: Ethnicity of the Carthaginians?
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 06:44:11 GMT
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- In article <2340@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca>, bouche2@server.uwindsor.ca (BOUCHER DAVID ) writes:
- > Does anybody out there know what was the ethnicity of the people
- > of Carthage? I had heard that Hannibal was black, but I saw a
- > portrait of him on a coin and it was impossible to tell one way or
- > another...
- >
- > On a related topic, can anyone suggest some generally accepted references on
- > black african civilizations prior to european colonialism?
- >
- > - db
- >
-
- Well it is possible that Hannibal was black, but I doubt it..
- The ruling class of Carthage was semite and semites are generally
- brown..Berbers are brown.. Berbers are a Hamite people, related some to the
- Egyptians.. Seems alot of people of afro-american decent (Actually sub-sahara
- decent) Want to claim that everyone of major fame was black, to pprove
- themselves to have someone to look up to. Well Cleopatra was not black, and I
- doubt Hannibal was.. Its kind of the reverse of white europeans protraying
- Jesus as white (as in white european) verus being semite. (brown)..
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- Not sure of any sub-sahara civilization books.. Do know of Zimbabwe,
- Timbuktu(sp) and Ethiopia and a few others.. Can't remember the old name of
- ethiopia..
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- I do know that the Zulu (BAntu) who were pastorialists were moving south into
- what is now Zimbabwe and displacing agricultral people. One of the problems of
- Zimbabwe today was becuase of tribal problems from that period..
- Must not forget MAdagasgar (bit that was a mixed Black African Arab Trader
- country. Reason for the rise of Swahili. A trade tongue based on a Bantu Lingo
- with a lot of borrowing from arabic..
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- Michael Adams alias Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
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