Hannibal's elephants - BBC

Documentary from the BBC charting the rise and fall of Hannibal, the Carthage Warrior. Historians analyse the psychological advantages to using Elephants in battle.

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[mrtundra45]

lol... the elephants got twisted on wine before battles! immagine if they had cocaine back then......holy shit!

[Denaliwise]

@jennywasfucked Hannibal was not black you moron. He was from North Africa, where people are light skinned.

[hereltch]

2:03 "this would had made the elephant mad as hell" man if a documentary narrator says that that means dumbos unhappy

[UsurperOfThrones]

Matter of a fact, how about you trolls and virgins stop worrying about how ancient people looked, their descendants are nothing but a shadow of their former selves.

[UsurperOfThrones]

@takfam07 Mali, Somghay, Ghana, Aksum, Great Zimbabwe, Nubia and Benin weren't African civilizations? #trollharder

[takfam07]

@jennywasfucked Black civilizational non-achievement is not a "conspiracy theory," it's fact. Blacks simply did not build civilization--neither before, during, nor after contact with whites. We all know that blacks can't even build a safe, productive community TODAY. So instead of always making excuses and making shit up, blacks should organize themselves and work like hell to prove everyone wrong. And in the meantime, stop claiming credit for histories that blacks had no part of.

[EntropicMisanthropic]

@Denaliwise He wasn't even actually "from" North Africa, since the Carthaginians migrated from the Phoenician cities in the Middle East and Mesopotamia. Thus, he was probably of a generic Semitic appearance. Studies show Carthaginians share DNA lineage with modern Semitic races, specifically Arabs and Jews, not Africans.

Don't feel too bad about the Carthaginians getting wiped out. Their religion revolved around infant sacrifice and it really pissed people off, even back then.

[Staticbeats]

@Denaliwise did you ever seen hannibal. dumb fuck

[Wolfsbane909]

@matmanxify same with carrier pigeons, they went extinct too. Why do all the cool animals have to go?

[Wolfsbane909]

Gee, i wondered why they went extinct? lol get them drunk woot!!!

[MajesticRootZ]

Light skinned LMAO, Most of north Africa is a Fucken desert. Scientist will tell you that the north African people are dark brown to a med brown. not white, white and Arab didn't come to north Africa until Rome took Egypt. which was the gateway to all of Africa.Arabs until east Africa slave trade... hints to where all Negros in east are.

[supersmash43]

@matmanxify that's one of the best comments I've heard!