Kudos to the History Channel for accurately portraying Hannibal as who he really was. A Black African.
Who says he was a black African? The Carthaginians were originally from Phoenicia. They were Semitic.
I did. The History Channel did. Archealogical evidence does. The bible does and so does science. The Phoenicians are descended from Canaan who's father is Ham. Sorry but they Hamitic not Semitic.
The Canaanites were Semitic according to historians. Who cares what the History Channel says? They have shows about crab boats and naked survival trips. That's real serious history, isn't it?
Nothing in the Bible indicates the Canaanites were black. According to the
Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (verses 15-19), Canaan was the ancestor of the tribes who originally occupied the ancient
Land of Canaan: all the territory from
Sidon or
Hamath in the north to
Gaza in the southwest and
Lasha in the southeast. This territory is roughly the areas of modern day
Israel,
Palestine,
Lebanon, western
Jordan, and western
Syria. Historians say the people living in this area were Semites, just like the Israelites.
Science doesn't say a thing about Hannibal's ethnicity. The term "Hamitic" is meaningless in historical or anthropological terms.
The Canaanites are not Semitic according to anyone. I think you are getting confused because they spoke a Semitic langauge.
The bible shows the Canaanites were Black on many occasions The first being that Ham is the father of Canaan. If you know your bible Ham is father of all Blacks that populated what we now call the African continent and parts of whats now called the ME.
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The Nations Descending from Ham:
First on the list, as being the darkest, is Cush or Ethiopia (Genesis 10:6), after which comes Mitsrayim, or Egypt, then PuT or Libyia, and Canaan last. The sons or descendants of each of these are then taken in turn, and it is noteworthy that some of them, like the Ethiopians and the Canaanites, spoke Semitic, and not Hamitic, languages"