Ethiopianism Hannibal " The war of Zama" Ethiopia became Africa 002

The continent of Africa took its name from the War of Zama in Carthage in 202BC. The vector always writes history changing the names of places and peoples. Before the Romans the Greeks general y Alexander the Macedonian at his victory in Egypt called the continent Ethiopia. The Definitions the words like Africa and Ethiopia took their roots from Greeks and Romans.
The name Carthage came from the Phoenician word Kart meaning city and hadašt new (the same in Hebrew and Amharic9 important ancient city, in northern Africa extending its dominion up unto Spain extending the northern coast of the continent. The founding myth of the city was based on the story of a princess named Elisa, who was forced to flee from the Phoenician Tyre after her brother, king Pygmalion of Phoenicia, had killed her husband. According to the Jewish writer Flavious Joseph of the 1st century AD the name Africa came from Afar a Hebrew word meaning dust from the Son of Abraham in the Bible.
Carthage controlled the coasts of Sardinia and Corsica, and in the west, the ports of the Maghreb and Andalusia. It also controlled the gold trade from Senegal and the route to the mysterious "tin isles", which may have been everywhere along the Atlantic Coast. In the mid-sixth century, Carthage supported the Phoenician towns against Greek Selinus. They fought against the Spartan prince Dorieus, who tried to build a city within the Carthaginian part of the island (c.510). In 480 the Carthaginian leader Hamilcar enlarged the grip of the city by defeating the cities in Andolocia. Later Hannibal his son great general renewed the war at the end of the fifth century and organized the Sicilian towns into one province with Cartage... Hannibal conquered northern Italy passing through Alps in winter supported by African elephants. He was defeated at Zama in 202 by Roman General named Publius Cornelius Afrcanus. The Romans named the continent Africa from the word Ifer/afer a tribe in Tunisia. Before the Romans the Greeks named the continent Ethiopia.

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