The Rise & Fall of Carthage
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- The History of Ancient Carthage
(The Rise & Fall of the Carthaginian Empire)
The Carthaginian Empire Documentary
History of the Carthaginian Empire from Phoenician colonization, to the Punic conflicts with Ancient Rome.
#History #Carthage #Epimetheus #Rome #AncientRome
Sources:
The Carthaginians 6th-2nd Century BC
Armies of the Carthaginian Wars 265-146 BC
lacrosse ancient medieval dictionary
The Carthaginians by Dexter Hoyos
The Carthaginian Empire by Nathan Pilkington
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Normal people: "Can't believe he's going to school already! They grow up so fast."
Me, an intellectual: "Now I know how Tyre felt, seeing Carthage rise."
Me too
I did not understand the joke
Tyre and Carthage is basically and ancient version of England and America
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117the difference is britain didn't become conquered
I was raised in Beirut, Lebanon. When i was at school, we performed a play about the founding of Carthage, in which I played the role of a Phoenician construction worker😂
Keep it up!! I would love to learn more about Phoenicia and the Canaanites my ancestors!!
You probably don't want to look too hard. Phoenicians fit with the scattered northern tribes of Israel.
Matthew Aislabie so be it! we’re all semitic after all
Carthage was indeed founded by a Phoenician queen but it wasn’t a Phoenician empire! It was mostly Amazigh/Berber and even Hannibal Barca was of Amazigh descent.
@@iammathieuaoun Carthaginians are European, not Phoenicianwww.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2016-05-ancient-dna-phoenician-carthage-european.amp
@@nizz32niz Carthagenians and all ancient Africans were black and brown people of those lands
Man what a shame that the Romans burned down Carthage’s libraries. We could’ve learned so much about them and possibly a little about the Sea People (although that might be a stretch)
Anytime I come across and account of a library being destroyed in the sacking of a great city, I always get a little bit sad.
There could have been SOOO much knowledges tucked away in those writings, but it’s gone forever
very true
I got this feeling the first time I heard that the Spanish destroyed all kinds of writings from the Inca and maya
Strange how when Rome is sacked, it's a tragedy, but when Carthage is destroyed barely anyone seems to care.
@@septimiusseverus343 all the while carthage is actually more civilizational nation.
The history of Carthage is what the Romans want you to know about Carthage.
True...+ some Greek opinions
It’s crazy how I see Tunisia in almost every video (antiquity, romans, islam, crusade, ottomans, ww2....) of every history channel, a country I didn’t know it even exists 6 months ago..
@@faubourglincoln Planet Tatouine is in Tunisia and you don't know Tunisia? 😂
@@faubourglincoln You should visit sometime
Historians are able to tell the difference between what happened and what Rome wants us to believe. There was a Greek historian that traveled with Hannibal, whose sources were used by Polybius and Livy and others.
It’s funny how the relationship between the Tyrians and the Carthaginians formed a kind of dark reflection of the Greeks and Romans. They imitated each other right down to rejecting monarchy in favor of a republic.
Ajami you’re a fucking weeb
@@jensjensen9035 Yes.
Ajami
Trade includes more than just goods and materials, it includes knowledge and ideas.
In all likely hood, Carthage imitated Rome’s style of government.
@@zoch9797 🤡🤡🤡 Carthage existed before Rome Rome copies Carthage and greece gouvernement rome copied carthage navy force copied carthage luxury
The people of Carthage were the descendants of ancient Canaanites who settled at the Northern-most tip of Africa? Never knew _that._ Whoa.
For whatever reason, english speaking countries love to potray Carthaginians as west Africans.
Which gives off completely distorted view. They were enstranged cousins of Hebrews.
🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳Tunisia
@@OkurkaBinLadin how were Canaanites and Jews related? Weren't they a separate people of the levant before the arrival of the Israelites?
@@ab5680 they share the same dna
No, they're repeating the same old historical mistake. The Cartaginians were NOT a Phoenician (=Canaanite) colony. They were only trading partners with the phoenicians. Phoenicians settled only in the Levant. Josephus made it clear that the northern African colonies originated in Epher son of Midian son of Abraham from his wife Keturah who were originally from north western part of Arabia!
“Last night, the crying of the children kept me awake, and I had a terrible vision. I saw the fall of our City; bleached bones under a harsh sun. Carthage...gone! Why would Ba’al send such a vision? He’s not cruel, he has watched over us. We’ve had victories aplenty in war. Our merchants sail to all corners of the world. And yet now, I fear, I cannot help it. We are the envy of lesser peoples - they tell terrible lies about us! They do not understand so they lie! But the Romans, they are the masters of falsehood. War will come, I am sure of it. So, I will have no more false visions; and I think the children will be quiet tonight.”
Had to put in the RTW reference ;)
"My family, the House of Scipii, are beloved of the gods. A proud boast, but true all the same. In return we have served Rome, ruled well, led her armies to glory; it has cost us dearly, despite the love of the gods. Sometimes the hatred of men is stronger. Our dead lie in many graves, put there by Carthaginian swords...and a few Greek ones. Even Roman blades have taken Scipii lives; that, we do not forget, or forgive. So, now our time has come. The spirits of the dead cry out for blood. I will lead our family in this undertaking. The gods will grant us vengeance. When Sicily is Roman, when Carthage is crushed, when the other Roman families are gone, when the world is mine...then I will stand before the gods and be worthy of their love. And worthy to rule Rome!"
House Scipii for life!
Awesome comment!!!
What or who is RTW???
@@someorclad9738 And awesome comment from you too!!!
@@SiriusDraconis RTW = Rome Total War. One of the best strategy games there is my man. back during the glory days of western games (now its JRPGs and Japanese games, as it always was and is but I'm getting off topic). Not sure if it will run on modern systems though, but you can always give it a try. If Rome Total War won't run, there are guides to get it to run if I'm not mistaken. If it still won't run, then try the sequels, Rome Total War 2 and Attila Total War. Not as great as Rome Total War, but eh, you get what you get.
@@someorclad9738 Thanks a bunch... I actually have the Rome total war collection on steam. I bought it the same time I bought civilization 5. Unfortunately, for me, I was still playing Kanes Wrath and Starcraft 2 and then my PC completely crashed and I never got to play them.
The fact the Romans took their history away is the most upsetting thing
Not really because that was their goal for Rome and still is for the west.
Urinal splashguard? or crocyamaka? “Still is (their goal) for the west”
Lol
Get a fucking grip man.
Careful to not "victimize" Carthage. Remember that in the second greco-punic war they massacred and enslaved almost the entire population of prosperous Sicily. No nation or culture is immune to disgraceful actions in all history of mankind.
I think the point Urinal made is that both Rome and colonial powers for the last maybe 600 years did the same thing in deliberately erasing the history of places they colonized - which is undebatable and only gets cemented more every year that documents get declassified.
hey they brought it upon themselves. Start shit get hit
Few people mention the peace treaty signed in 1985 between Rome and Carthage cities, for many something merely symbolic, but it moved me deeply to know that there are people that still take time to heal the wounds no matter how old these are.
Kudos to the two mayors who made this peace treaty, and both cities to be an example to the modern world.
"Let the Romans be relieved of their agony since they think it tries their patience too much,
to wait for an old man's death."
-Hannibal Barca
How would we know any of Hannibal's quotes. Was he writing letters to the Romans? Probably legends.
Actually it's a wrong quote mate, this is the original one :
"Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man."
And here is the source :
www.englishclub.com/ref/esl/Quotes/Last_Words/Let_us_now_relieve_the_Romans_of_their_fears_by_the_death_of_a_feeble_old_man._2721.php
You have created a masterpiece because you have filled many gaps in history that I've never heard published before.
Agreed
Well, the topic is well established history that he's summarizing. Carthage and the Phonecians often get glossed over in high school and introductory college historical surveys because we know less about them, compared to Egypt, Greece and Rome, for example. But there are other cultures of this same time period which get even less attention.
"But a plague can only do so much."
Laughs nervously in Pre-Columbian American
"But a plague can only do so much."
John Cena: *"Are you SURE about that?"*
The Black Plague disagrees
Well, the Spanish Flu did its thing, yet it was not a factor for voting for Hitler. Plagues are so horrible yet how they impact a society is very different every time.
Coronavirus disagrees
Awesome that you finally got to draw some Celtic mercenaries. It would be really cool as a video about the Celtic mercenaries in Egypt, Judea, and the rest of the Middle East
Noah The Celt though that connection is dubious I think it’s possible that some settled there from Galatia, and were hired by Herodias and other judean officials for guard work, which makes me wonder if Gauls fought for the Jews during the first Roman siege of Jerusalem...
pokezee king-wolf though I don’t agree with saying everyone was originally european or whatever, you shouldn’t be anti-eurocentrist either, if we go the opposite route we may completely ignore or misinterpret historical people and events... like in the example of celts in the Middle East as we’ve been talking about, it’s not a huge leap to think they had their own settlements or designated region in the area.
Apep ' the Greek Ptolemies brought them in as elite warriors and guardsmen
@Noah The Celt ...... The celts and the greeks were black.... So whats your point. There was no opression of egyptians.
@Noah The Celt ..... Thats hilarious! Where is that peer reviewed study of "white" celts? Let alone in egypt? Ireland is ERIland. Dont bet ridiculus
Mostly accurate the only problem, that is very minor, is the circumstances surrounding the third Punic war. You were right about the numidians constantly raiding them, but there is a lot more to it. Part of the second treaty was that the Numidian king would get any land back that his ancestors once held. So, he would go into Carthaginian land and claim it while Carthage could not defend itself without Roman approval. Rome continued to not approve Carthage’s request and eventually the citizens revolted against the elders of the city and attacked anyways. They were crushed by the Numidian king. The elders went to Rome and begged for forgiveness and Rome said they would forgive them if they gave over any weapons. Carthage did, then Rome came and demanded they leave the city. That is when Carthage refused and mobilized for the last time.
History repeats itself over and over.
patrick Gideon..Also,the great majority of Carthagenians were native black and brown Africans
Masinissa and his Numidian/Lybian army switching sides, and fighting with the Romans (Scipio) against Hannibal is probably what hasten the inevitable fall of Carthage. i mean the Romans were damn strong and numerous at the time.
Also not all the Berbers were on the side of Carthage in the first place, and what made Masinissa chose the Romans is the council of Carthage didn't keep there words and betrayed there allies. so instead of being another pawn that would be stabbed, he went with Rome. the thing is Hannibal was not the one responsible for the mess but the corrupt council.
There were only berbers, egyptians and colonists from the Levant and Greece in Northern Africa at the time, the arabic conquests are an entire millenia later
As for the Romans they didn't look like Jerry the cashier from Northern England, people were mostly fairly tanned especially during eras prior to ours
@a chinese Muslim Seriously!! 😅 Arabs didn't even rank as "civilization" on that time
@a chinese Muslim You are ignorant racist filth, go get an education and don't bother with videos that are meant for decent people.
@a chinese Muslim I can see who IS crying 😂
@a chinese Muslim The carthaginian empire was mostly consisted of amazigh, canaanites, iberians and some gauls. And if you look at how most modern semitic and amazigh peoples look like today they're pretty much white.
The ruins of the present Carthage ( Tunis) are NOT the ruins of the original Phoenician Carthage ( Qart-Hadašt), the powerful capital of the Thalassocratic Carthaginian Empire/Civilization, but the ruins of the Roman Carthage ( Carthāgo), the capital of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis/Proconsular Africa ( which included the current Tunisia and the Mediterranean coast of Libya). Following the complete devastation of the city in 146 BC during the Third Punic War ( which was carried out by the generals Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus and Calpurnius Piso), the city was completely rebuilt in 46 BC by Julius Caesar as a new ROMAN city. The current ruins of Carthage, ironically, are the Roman ruins.
Exactly, the ruins as we see it today are the results of the destruction made by the arabs.
There is still one building standing, and some artifacts, graves, ect...
@@SeptimiusAfer240 Exactly! The city was completely destroyed in 698, more specifically when the Arab General Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani ( in the name of the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik), conquered the Roman/Byzantine province of Africa Proconsularis ( which was called Ifriqiya by the Arabs).
i'm tunisian and i went to what used to be the spot of the city ... u can see the black layers in the walls which refer to the fires of the roman distraction of the city
@@hannibalbarca8411 Nice! I wanna visit the ruins of Carthage someday. Tunisia has a rich history.
They probably gave us the First accounts of West africa specifically with trade between them and Mande people
Probably
@Charles Lee Ray to qoute eddie bravo: look into it bro
@Charles Lee Ray they traded with people along the West african coast
@Noah Big boy
There's a really cool video from the channel voices of the past that describes Hannos exploration of Africa.
There also must be some integration with the Amazigh peoples, who have lived in that region since ancient times.
Rome never expected the Spanish expedition!
(Apologies to Monty Python.)
Their chief weapon was surprise. Surprise and fear. And a ruthless force of elephants.
Caleb Hines haven’t Hannibal ravaged Italy for years, element of surprise is long gone by that time
@@caleb-hines Hi, Hannibal didn't have so many elephants after the Alps
Hell yeah! My favorite historical youtuber covering one of my favorite historical civilizations! Awesome.
so i'm your favorite general i guess ? 😂
Lord Voldemort True, he had a great phoenician name
It always astonishes me how beautiful your art is.
ok you know what's funny? i've been looking for vids on the subject for the past half an hour or so and THEN YOUR VID POPS UP
and i know i'm gonna like it already
@Lord Voldemort .. i actually did xD watching now, not regretting it
@Lord Voldemort thank you, he-who-must-not-be-named!
It’s crazy how I got a timeline that fits in the ancient history of the canaanites from the Bible goes through the Classical Greeks world and ends with the Roman dominant world!!
So much history has been put in perspective Finally
Fun fact: Carthaginian Canaanite language is mutually intelligible with Hebrew. Yes, modern Israeli Hebrew.
@@irfannurhadisatria2540 Todah for lightening me heart. It’s a beautiful lingo like your own! Reminds me of The Byrd’s singing, “And we’ll all go together, to pick wild mountain tyme, a long the purple heather, will ye go lassie go?”
Hmm… 2 “judges” serving 1 year terms elected by an aristocratic senate… that sounds an awful lot like 2 consuls serving 1 year terms elected by an aristocra- hey wait a minute.
Teacher: ok class today we are going to talk about the Punic wars
The kid who plays Rome total war
The expert
Manos Chiotou my man !
Its so sad when libraries get burnt. who knows what tales and history the Carthaginians had that we dont know about.
I wonder what would've happened if Carthage and Rome became permanent allies.
Impossible
The United States?
Too many differences and growing commercial competition all over the Mediterranean. Impossible
@Lord Voldemort The Carthaginians were not assimilatable. They would have worked to undermine the Empire from within.
It's an interesting theory, given the phoenicians commerce ability you may have seen caesar invading a britain that was fully mapped out or the establishment of a rome/carthage city state on the indian continent to facilitate trade. You may also have a 4 class system emerge of merchants, soldiers, farmers and slaves. Given the disputes that rocked the roman republic before Caesar though it's quite likely that the rome carthage alliance would have fallen apart to the infighting as someone like Sulla would have been after the Carthaginian wealth to their own gains. (much like why rome wanted to take command of the trade Carthage had in the first place.) Piracy would likely been non existent so caesar wouldn't have been captured on his way to Rhodes and he may have been a scholar not a general he became. Rome would have likely expanded east around the black sea and up the Don and Danube rivers much before they went after Gaul. I think if they did survive a close alliance for time they would have expanded more like the European powers did in the early americas only settling areas with great wealth or area's close to major waterways and then only pushing away from those places slowly. The romans were a bunch of pretty weak sailors as a whole and an alliance would have changed that as water traffic would likely have stymied the romans preference of road building. Likely the romans would have eventually taken over the Carthaginians in some way but a merchant class of Phoenicians may have been absorbed into the roman system in some manner.......
Thanks for this video. Carthage is fascinating.
Please do NOT stop making videos. I always learn new stuff due to your brilliant channel on ancient history. Keep at it my man!
Thank you for talking about my country's history 🇹🇳❤️
Aren't you Arabs
@@wankawanka3053 we are a mix between amazigh(berbers) and arab but we speak arabic and carthage was part of our history
Absolutely brilliant video. Very engaging and excellent use of graphics. Really enjoyed watching it. Thank you. Liked and subscribed.
On a minor note, for some reason Basques say "Utikan" (i.e. "in Utica") when expressing that something is very far away. It is unclear to me if this has any relation with Phoenician influences, Punic wars or maybe even the Christian diocesis of Utica, once very important.
@Sa- Jdoub - You're right in the sense that Utica is the Latin version of the name, Ityke in Greek transcription, 'TQ in Phoenician (meaning as you say, "old" most likely). However the city was destroyed in 700 and never rebuilt. So it should come from that window between the Punic Wars and the Christian Diocese of Utica.
"Utikan" can also be used to say someone to leave in a rude manner
@@LuisAldamiz Atik (Archaic pronunciation 'Atiq) still means "ancient" in Hebrew, and the two languages were very close, so I think that's pretty good reference.
@@Mrkabrat - But not the primary use, normally you use something like "pikutara!" for that. "Utikan" is like Spanish "el quinto pino", not sure if there's an English equivalent.
@@LuisAldamiz Ive heard it used as "Utikan hemendik!" , the equivalent of "Piss off" in english. Ive never heard it used as "Its far away", and im a native speaker. Maybe its an old basque expression
Love this content! Someday i'll travel to Tunisia again but just to see the roman and carthaginian ruins
The pheonician language is the closest language to Hebrew, the two are basically the northern and the southern Canaanite dialects respectively
They are closer to arabic
@@ibrasoso8668
Not true, this language is twin sister of Hebrew.
@@jonathanrotem251 bro you speak semetic language or u just talking ???
@@ibrasoso8668
I do, but you can just look up a semitic family tree. Hebrew and Pheonician were the closest, less close to Aramaic, and even more distant to Arabic.
@@ibrasoso8668 Hannibal said "shalom" when he came over the alps, get over it
Ah, Carthage, one of the most notable historical influences behind the Ghiscari Empire from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Carthage = Ghiscari Empire
Rome = Valyrian Empire
Qarth is the one based on Carthage (Qart-Hadchet)
@Lord Voldemort
Ops, my mistake
@@mohamededbey Valyria is a mixed case with a heavy influence from Greece. It is regionally identical both with the Greek peninsula of Chalcidice and the southern coast of Peloponnese. Have a read here also, www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/4et1d3/spoilers_agot_i_found_the_realworld_valyria/ for some more information. Both cases have historical corroboration when we consider that Ghiscari represents a great power of Essos (or Asia). In the case of Peloponnese, it could be their expedition towards Troy during the Bronze Age, or their defeat of the Persian Empire mainly by Peloponnesians ( upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Map_Greco-Persian_Wars-en.svg ). Then with Chalcidice (in Macedon), we have the case of Alexander the Great's expedition towards much of Essos (or Asia) and the total defeat of the Persian Empire.
@@mohamededbey The Valyrian Freehold is basically like the Roman Republic but with dragons.
"Carthage must be destroyed" with facts and logic
Oh hey Avery, just saw you at the cold war video
@Lord Voldemort I didn't get the reference, so thanks for that.
Avery the Cuban-American clam down we don’t want to unleash such power upon them
Delende est Cartago.
M H ignorant
Great Video...The Destruction of the Libraries of Cartage was an Incalculable LOSS!
Indeed
this video is gonna be "salty"
Did the Romans spread salt to carthaginians agricultural lands in order to destroy them , we shall never know
@@kacizoubir7920 ofc it's a legend, there's no evidence that backs it up nor deny it xD but the city was damn well burnt to the very ground
Smart comment
@@aladinbenterzi1315 Romans throw salt to Carthaginian farms,so your comment is accurate
lol, a few years later, they started growing it again. making Tunisia the most wealthiest region in the Mediterranean.
Dude this is some really masterful stuff.
the most beautiful city in the 2 and 3 century bc
I remember it well.
Oliver Burkill good times
All I see is a salt pile.
Beautifully salty.
That murex smell, mmmmm good.
the ups and downs and crescendo of ancient carthage couldn't be more violent.
Civilisation in Africa : exists
People : imma argue if they were black or else
They were semitic
@@iverstylen5829 but isn't ancient north african were caucasoid
@@iverstylen5829 k
@@scarymonster5541 Claiming ancient north Africans as Caucasians is and shows immence ignorance on this subject
@@matiusbond6052 carthage is asians - light skin, black hair and black eyes. look at lebansese people and Syrians.
This is a very good history. However, there is the part where Rome learns how to build ships of war from captured Carthaginian ships. These ships were pre-fabricated like Ikea furniture and easy to replicate, which is what Roman ship builders did. This was key to Roman victory.
Proud of are ancester 🇹🇳💪❤️🌙 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕
What’s this language??
@@gurzil6682 the alphabet and the language is Carthaginian And canaanite known as "phoenician" used by Carthaginian And canaanite
@@adimsfromthea828
Thank you for the information
ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵉⵔⵜ ⴰ ⵎⵉⵙ ⵜⵎⵓⵔⵜ ❤️
@@gurzil6682 no problème Brother
@@adimsfromthea828 what do you do to type these alphabets. Also not all canaanites use this alphabets only the phoenicians.
Nicely done! You're maps look amazing
I love your videos. I especially love how use the map as the center focus of the documentary itself. Because history is so shaped by geography and it's good for people to actually see where all the stuff is happening so it can be more relatable to them.
Proud to be Carthaginian. 💪
I send you my thanks for this very good video, from Carthage, Tunisia.
@Noah The Celt Yes, i'm tunisian. But this is not a carthaginian flag, but a berber amazigh one.
The letter ⵣ is the symbol of the indigenous people of North Africa, the Amazigh, who are also called berbers.
The flag of Carthage however has the sign of Tanit on it.
The phoenicians have assimilated with the local people after many centuries and had a shared culture in all domains, like agriculture, fishing, writing, etc.
For example, Septimus Severus was an emperor of Rome who was a punic, with both phoenician and amazigh origins.
Sadly today tunisians consider themselves as arabs, because they make a confusion between linguistic identity and ethnic identity.
@Noah The Celt As a celt, do you consider that there is this kind of identity crisis in Scotland ?
Fun Fact: our national beer in Tunisia is named Celtia
@Noah The Celt Thank you very much for your response
@@SeptimiusAfer240 even if there exist "arabized berbers" who belive they are ethnics arabs (mostly because of modern pan-arabism) that dosen't mine there no arabs in tunisia the poeople that bring "arabization" (maghrebi cultural group) to the region where mostly these hilalians and maqil arabs tribes in there migrating invasion (later defeated by the almohads berbers) so just like the "pheonician" they might have left some of there ancetrey in the region even if great part of population is of berbers ancestry
@@TheSonny3333 Exactly, i could never deny this
I would love a series on all the Crusader King 3 kingdoms. So many I don’t know about and would love a series on!
The best history channel on TH-cam! You just never disappoint !
Carthage; Qarth-Hädäśt is one; if not *the* ; most underrated civilazations on the counter. Not only this was a True african/maghreb empire; but they were also the Last true followers of Baal; and the Actual Cannaanite religion
@@awsomeclipsnow True
@@awsomeclipsnow
Do you have proof for what you said? The Carthaginians were Punics who were a mix of the majority Imazighen and minority Phoenicians including the ruling class.
@@mohamededbey
They keep the same story , that in North Africa there were no leaders or civilisation, but only the foreigners who built civilisations !
But science keep giving proofs that North Africa ''the land of amazighs'' is the beginning of all civilisations, even the first known one : Sumerian.
th-cam.com/video/3rgXnb245yk/w-d-xo.html
"Others have suggested that the Sumerians were a North African people who migrated from the Green Sahara into the Middle East and were responsible for the spread of farming in the Middle East.[10] Although not specifically discussing Sumerians, Lazaridis et al. 2016 have suggested a North African origin for the pre-Semitic cultures of the Middle East, particularly Natufians, after testing the genomes of Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture-bearers.[11].."
[10] Arnaiz-Villena, Antonio; Martínez-Laso, Jorge; Gómez-Casado, Eduardo (2000-01-31). Prehistoric Iberia: Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics : [proceedings of an International Conference on Prehistoric Iberia : Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics, Held November 16-17, 1998, in Madrid, Spain]. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 22. ISBN 9780306463648.
[11] "Craniometric analyses have suggested an affinity between the Natufians and populations of north or sub-Saharan Africa, a result that finds some support from Y chromosome analysis which shows that the Natufians and successor Levantine Neolithic populations carried haplogroup E, of likely ultimate African origin, which has not been detected in other ancient males from West Eurasia. However, no affinity of Natufians to sub-Saharan Africans is evident in our genome-wide analysis, as present-day sub-Saharan Africans do not share more alleles with Natufians than with other ancient Eurasians" in Reich, David; Pinhasi, Ron; Patterson, Nick; Hovhannisyan, Nelli A.; Yengo, Loic; Wilson, James F.; Torroni, Antonio; Tönjes, Anke; Stumvoll, Michael (August 2016). "Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East". Nature. 536 (7617): 419-424. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..419L. doi:10.1038/nature19310. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 5003663.
@@drisselalami1400 "however no affinity of nafutians to sub-Saharan africans is evident in our genome-wide analysis as present day sub-Saharan africans do not share more alleles with nafutians than with other ancient eurasians"?
It’s not underrated, but purposefully silenced. The religious elite want to keep the Canaanite history squelched because it comes in conflict with their own beliefs.
Carthage 🦅🇹🇳❤
Phoenicia (Canaan) 🌲🇱🇧❤️
@@theredstonesword9293 Carthage has nothing to do with the Phoenicians
@@nizz32niz it seems you are either high on crack or have no historic knowledge. The Phoenicians founded Carthage. Punic is a descendant of the Phoenician language. The Carthaginian pantheon is derived from the Phoenician pantheon. And Carthaginian culture is mostly a mix of Phoenician with some Berber.
Also, if they are not related explain why the Phoenicians refused to conquer the Carthaginians when the Persians were trying to use them to conquer Carthage? And why Carthage paid tribute to Tyre for such a long time.
@@theredstonesword9293 The tomb of Carthage was discovered, and they found the body of a young man. They analyzed the DNA. They discovered a different reality. Here is the article.www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2016-05-ancient-dna-phoenician-carthage-european.amp
@@nizz32niz I already know about the young man of Byrsa and it is easily explainable. Since that haplogroup is found in Iberians and Carthage conquered parts of Iberia they must have mixed with them thus explaining the man inheriting that haplogroup, and also the haplogroup of only one man does not determine the ethnic group of all the Carthaginians. For example 5% of the Lebanese population has Crusader dna, does that make Lebanese Europeans? Of course not. And also, the article calls the man a Phoenician.
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To paraphrase Extra History: the Punic Wars all started because some idiots were bored in Sicily.
oh man really good work I am Tunisian and i lives in Carthage now ... so it is really fun to learn your own history
Just because you live in the same land doesn't mean you're part of a country and culture of 2k years ago. Carthage and its culture died when invaded and conquered by Arabian Muslim. You're an Arab not carthaginian
@@Celestial1000 theres not a single country on earth whos people are anywhere near culturally or genetically what the people living there back then were, yet people have no problem with Italians claiming descent from the romans, or modern greeks from ancient greeks
@@peterconnaghan2872 There are plenty of holes in this statement.
antimatter79 not all north africans are arabs , there are still millions of amazigh there , and when I say millions of amazigh ( berbers ) I mean people that still have the north african culture and speak the language , cause the others claim to be arabs but their genetics are amazigh , it’s all about identity yk , a lot of north africans are arabised but they’re still the natives of north africa , since their genes say so
antimatter79 if you think all north africans are arabs you know nothing about north africa , amazigh ( berbers ) are the native north africans , and yes a lot are arabised but there genes are north african
I always watch to the end EP and this one is one of my favorites! Please continue Mediterranean battles and politics, if you can. Thanks Mate!
Very interesting. Had heard of Carthage, but never really understood its place in history. Now I do. Thanks.
Thank you so much for making all these amazing videos !!!
Your content is nicely and visually satisfyingly presented and I like your voice. You do sound a bit pressed in some other videos though. But nevermind, you are doing a great job overall 👍🏼
I'm feeling sleepy and you have released a new video.
I'll watch it later.
Keep up the good work 👍
This was super thorough and entertaining to watch. We don't hear enough about Carthage or the Phoenicians! Thank you!
His explanation with darkened areas according to who lives there helps a lot.
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Great video! Your art work gets better and better!
AWESOME! I LOVE CARTHAGE! 😁😁
I personally think Fabius Maximus should have been quickly mentioned. But hey, it’s just a quick 15 minute synapses of Carthaginian history and you can’t get every detail... well done man!
Carthage is definitely my second favorite dead empire after Austria-Hungary....(as an italian, I'm kinda conflicted though).
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"War will come....so I will not have false visions...and...I think...the children will be quiet tonight."
I only know this from
Total war rome : carthage campaign omg the nostalgia
Outstanding video!
Thank you! Cheers!
It's neat to look at Google earth and see the city's harbor still outlined in Tunis
You did not mention that agriculture and animals farming are what made carthage rich city in first place , in combination with navy trading master piece learned from fellows Phenicians, Carthage became the wealthiest city in the world.
The carthaginians used to have a unic year calendar that goes with agriculture , the native people north africa still use it a bit and the ancient Amazigh language . All that was performed and noted by the carthaginian minister of agriculture of that time (to be honest i forgot his name but i think it was Hanno) . The technicalities of modern agriculture evolved from the latin romans who took those notes from the carthagenian libraries and got them translated to latin . Tipical nubia
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Oumouk tangou is an ancient Tunisian tradition of invocation of the rain which was inherited from the Punic and Berber traditions. Tangou is another name of Tanit, goddess of fertility in ancient Carthage. My mother told me about it, she learned it from her mother before her :
"Ommek Tango ya nse, d'aat rabi 'al shte" which means : "Mother Tango, O women, ask God to rain" .
Carthago superba est...wonderful work...👍
Carthago inferior est!!!! 😠
One fascinating thing he failed to mention (which was discussed in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History on "Punic Nightmares") is how Hannibal, during his Italian campaign, had a wide-open opportunity to *sack Rome* but thought it better at the moment to pause and recover his army's strength. *Imagine* how different history would have been if instead Hannibal had pressed the attack…
latin languages like french italian never appeared and the usa will be different thing of what it is now and christianity and islam never appear
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He would have failed, the Battle of Zama would have been fought in Rome, and the Carthagenians would still crumble under the Roman Authority
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I wonder if Carthaginian Suffets inspired Roman Consuls or if Consuls inspired the Suffets...
It was likely independent development.
Sparta likewise had two "kings" supervised by council of elders.
Awesome video, and it's cool to see your art style get better and better as time goes by.
Great video I love the artwork and your videos keep it up
Damn i love learning history from you.
Thank you :)
13:27 ; the chad Carthaginian vs the virgin R*man . look at the difference face wise lmao !
@Charles Lee Ray Carthage was miles ahead of Rome during this time . Rome didn't even know how to construct proper seagoing ships and had to steal Carthaginian designs . The Romans achieved very little by themselves , most of their inventions and achievements they stole from other peoples .
@@saltyshanker Does that make them better than other peoples then? They learned to adapt and use other peoples technology against them?
@@Eluxor it makes them Borg.
@@saltyshanker gouvernement and République by Carthage luxury by Carthage navy by Carthage tactique Scipio afric-anus stealed the tactique of Hannibal agriculture techniques by Carthage all Rome have its from Carthage in no way rome is better then Carthage
Awesome video. I love these
Many people don't know that the people of Carthage, were actually not Phoenician except the few (in terms of genetics and ethnicity). The majority of Carthaginians were in fact native Imazighen who adapted Punic culture which was a mix both Phoenician and Amazigh culture.
As proven by Spencer Wells of course
Well, that stands to reason. It was a colony very far from the Phoenician homeland. The "true-blood" Phoenicians would have been the upper class of the city, with the mixed Lybi-Phoenicians as the intermediate class and non-Phoenicians as the lowest class.
Yes bcs the carthage king He bought phoenician from the Pharaohs In order to make a strong trade also bcs the amazigh was a little dumb in trade
No the Phoenician were just slaves in carthage and after the war Rome recovered them and used them to make the tight banking system
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May I ask were is your proof for your claim? Sure since Carthage was a rich society that heavily relied on trade (something the Phoenicians were very good at), there will be obviously be Phoenicians as elites in Carthage. But that doesn't mean that there weren't Amazigh (Berber) elites in Carthage as well.
Great and very compact video. Thank you for all your effort!
Soooo, you are telling me the carthaginian city in iberia Nova Cartago means "new new city"? xD
yes
Epimetheus, can you please make a video on the history of Burma. Thank you very much.
When carthage modern(Tunisia ) and Greece founded a lot of Mediterranean most important cities being lived in till now 🤔
The Phoenician Head cut giving the side eye is awesome
What a craftsmanship, the one showed on the coin in min 12 47
Carthaginians had such a great empire! It`s sad they were fallen by Roman empire.
We will come back
It was expected, Roma Invicta
@@baltazarriosdelbarco4230 we will see
Tbf, it was even sadder that the main reason they collapsed was because of internal strife. If only the military leaders were given political support, they might have a chance to avoid destruction.
@@Xaiff True, in the Tunis Carthage Museum, we still remember how Hannibal was betrayed from within. When the Carthaginian Senate refused to supply him with soldiers and equipment
This got me thinking that before the the final Punic war the Carthaginians should have set up a far off colony further west along the West African coast and escaped to it.
Your Dido drawing is very pretty.
A great followup to the video on the Phoenicians!!!
The Carthaginian Empire worked more like a corporation than a unified political entity. The map shows their zone of economic and cultural influence, but they had no political domination or military presence in many of those areas, and most of their army consisted of mercenaries or the armies of allied nations (Numidian cavalry for instance). It's important to keep that in mind, because some people seem to think that they actually conquered all of those territories shown in blue, when only a subset of them was under their direct control.
Glad I learned the 10 Commandments from Superintendant of School Danette
DiBiasio as a 9 or 10 year old. Church controls me, as stepping out of boat onto
somebody’s land is always with peace and pain, not offensive harm to owners of
land. Movie Beach Beach Blanket Bingo is future, not past. Gasoline is a sick way to ‘I Get Around’, with respect to the Beach Boys’, another song, “Catch a Wave” might mean Minoans or Myceans taught Phoenicians a thing or two. Tolerance towards others defeats weapons .
Carthage was a mighty empire before rome for 500 years
Wow. Great art and info
I wonder how Christianity and the bible would go different had Carthage won
yikes that would mean that God had to allow evil empires to exist and even win in order for his purpose to be done. I bet Hannibal was still on the minds of early christians though.
@@Morristown337 the Punic wars of Hannibal took place in the 200 bcs when the Seleucid empire had control of Israel, before the Jewish Maccabee revolt. The early Christians formed in the beginning ads.
I wonder how the different outcome would affect the new testament?
That's assuming God is not in control of history.
@@joshrichards9121 he would've decided Rome won the Punic wars, I'm just wondering how they new testament would've gone if Carthage won
@@story_of_the_year_fan You know that the Romans are the sons of Esau, the son of Isaac
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It is believed that the Phoenicians were originally from the island of today's Bahrain. During Alexander the Great's era it was named Τύλος(Tilos) in Greek which historians seem to think that Tyre is derived from Tylos and it was a major pearl and cotton trading hub iirc.
I think despite them being defeated, the Carthaginians have an impressive legacy.
7:15 quick question here, I know I'm not the only person who's noticed this, but this is very similar to the system of government in the Roman Republic, is it possible that one influenced the other, and if so who did it first?
I enjoy your knowledge of history
I see stepped up the quality of your drawing. Very nice man!
Simply brilliant. I love your videos!