Engineering An Empire: the Carthage (History Channel program) Part 2/3

[PremiumZero]

02:25 that is statue of Hannibal. Now that put stop to your pointless race questions!

[6holy]

4/ conclusion: the race does not matter for ancient people, make it an exemple.

5/ I'm tunisian and i know what i am talking about, and sorry for the bad english.

[6holy]

1/ Carthaginian people were from different origin because of the commercial caracter of the city and its place in the map between europe and africa.

2/ ethnicaly north african are AMAZIGH (free men) not black people not white people, phinicans are middel eastern and carthagian (punic) are mixed population between those two origins.

3/ Carthage army was a mecenary army in a big part, soldiers were from all countries fearing the domintion of rome (punic, celtic, gaulish, black,...)

[loveaction12]

really this documentary is showing wrong roman military those men are wearing lorica segmantata and during punic wars there was no marian reforms :L

[herrzorlo]

Rome, Rome, Rome, what the fuck, where are the Sicilian wars between Carthage and Syracuse? The greek sicilian city held back Carthage from the conquer of the mediterranean for more than a century. And Dionysius the Elder was the first to use quinquiremes against the Carthaginians themselves. Someone who knows nothing about ancient history could think that there were Carthage, there were Rome and one day they clashed.

HC is full of crap.

[ulongkoror]

@herrzorlo

how much information can you squeeze into a 40 minutes program?they can only talk so much in terms of the wars,and whats more important?the sicilian wars,or the punic wars that crippled and destroyed carthage?

[ModernWarfare2vsODST]

1) Hamilcar did not surrender rather he bartered the peace

2) Rome did not get Sardinia. Sardinia remained Carthage's and even though a party on the island asked for Roman occupation the Romans turned it down as Carthage was suffering in the Mercenary war

3) They did not take all lands south of ebro rather most of central/eastern lands exception being lusitania

4) Lol Hannibal was not religous just realistic on the need to kill ROme over Saguntum

5) Alexander was better im sorry

[ModernWarfare2vsODST]

Carthage failed naval wise in this war...to Rome. Really their performance in the Punic wars were only salavaged by Hamilcar and Hannibal...this documentary is so fucking bullcrap...so bullcrap

[ModernWarfare2vsODST]

Also Rome had NO settlements on Carthage and the dispute grew out of a small dispute. Also historians believe Carthage first sailed to America please verify this?

[ModernWarfare2vsODST]

wat tha fuck? how did the Romans elbow? They were obliged when appealed to by Messana to protect the interests of the city even though Rome was disinclined to show interest in Sicily. That guy is not exactly showing a great amount of historiography here but rather narrating some fairy tale he's got going

[jamaicanification]

its really annnoying that whenever theres a discussion about carthage or hannibal, the topic of race comes up. This distracts away from the point of the achievements of the carthaginians

[Assaultwarfare]

What, the carthaginians were sail to America???

But where did they get such a idea...How the??

[aminoacid1648856]

Wrong armor !

[MrRobyopunkass]

the euroclows strike agian carthage ppl were black thats a FACT WTF is this bullshit 

[ulongkoror]

@MrRobyopunkass

why the fuck do you care if they are black or white or brown or blue or whatever?!?!?does skin colour change ANYTHING about HISTORY?!?!?or are you here to argue about racial supermecy?

[PoppingSanta]

@MrRobyopunkass

You're a Racist.

[andstrel11]

@PoppingSanta how is he racist

[PoppingSanta]

@andstrel11

He is trying to give black people credit by saying that all Carthaginians were black.

He is saying that all Carthaginians were black, because they were african. That is racism.

Many people are racists without knowing it, or meaning it. When someone says something racist, they don't always mean it in a bad way.

For example, there was a Black African in my school that once said that all black people are good at ping pong. That is racism. Unfortunately I've run out of letters.