Who was the Carthaginian General that led elephants over the Alps to attack Rome?
Correct answer: Hannibal
AluminumAardvark101
Carthage is Tunisia, for who don't know where is it now.
Studeman
Something that it's not generally taught in school is who defeated Hannibal. The answer is Scipio Africanus and I'm not making that up.
Montana Lady
An old documentary talked about how elephants were afraid of pigs & fire. So one of the armies (Roman, I think? ) put pitch on pigs, lit them on fire, and catapulted them at the advancing elephants... I don't recall what battle, but it worked. The screams of the pigs and the fire freaked out the elephants and they would not advance.
It was such an awful image of war and cruelty, that it turned my stomach then and has always stuck with me.
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poor elephants
CrunchyDonut28347
Player #3928781, the years in BC move backwards. Like year 1 BC is 1 year before Christ. The year 200 BC. is 200 years before Christ. Now in 2019 is 2019 years After Christ.
Player #19644104
Newcomer4626, North Africa. Not all Africans are dark skinned
Player #12299706
Montana Lady, horrible humans,we are supposed to protect and make animal kingdom live not torture and kill . special place in hell for animal abusers
Canis Lupus
FiestySamurai59001, Poor pigs!
joe
Hannibal quote: 'I will either find a way, or make one.'
Jaminus Optimus
Xaier, Carthage was founded by Pheonician migrants, so he wouldn't have been black, but olives skinned.
MCA
Humans are the most hard hearted creations on this earth! Most of them can only think of war/killing each other as a way to solve problems!
Sharon
AluminumAardvark101, never knew that, thank you!
Bam
Player #19644104, actually color has nothing to do with being from The Continent of Africa... Many are very pale In tone white... Don't let ignorance confuse the children learn....
Brian
Animal brutality at its best!
ven
Player #19644104, yeah whites settled in the south and during the apartheid regime was one of the most racial discriminate countries
PerkyLin
Jaminus Optimus, We are all of Africa descent if you go back far enough. it is the cradle of humanity.
El Paz
Montana Lady, I guess that means you'll never find an elephant queuing up for a bacon butty 🥓🥖 at Greggs,,,,, lol 😂😂🐘🐘🐘
Harfouche Rodge
Carthagenians were a Phoenician community from Tyr in Lebanon. Phoenicians had many other satellite cities in the Mediterranean. Ex: Spain, Sicily, Malta...Fact is, Europe was named after a Phoenician princess.
Oriana
Montana Lady, man that’s disgusting. Humans can be so barbaric. I cry for all the horses and dromedaries who’s lives were lost in all this war brutality madness.
Grove
Hannibal had dark skin.
Parsa
Nader Shah, the Persian emperor, attacked India in 1739. The Indian army used elephants. Persians put torches on the back of mules and sent them towards the elephants. Mules backs burned and their screaming scared the elephants. Indian elephants defeated the Indian army. 😱
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SOS, Romans had slaves and fed christians to lions. they were far and away more horrible to humans.
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Arkturianas, he is wrong
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Player #11503902, Romans had seen many before this. ie the first punic war. my god!
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AluminumAardvark101, Wrong. so very off. Carthage was so much larger then just modern day Tunisia. it covered much of north africia and the middle east where it started.
Arkturianas
AluminumAardvark101, thanks
Sly
Night at the museum
Sly
Night at the musuem movie
Guillermo Jr.
Hannibal Burress is a great comedian and writer
Larissa
It sounds like Cannibal... 🤣
cleofe Laganson
so many random names in so little time.
sue
Montana Lady, that is possibly the most horrific thing I've ever read. Such cruelty
CanMan
always thought it was Genghis Kahn
Wyatt
many don't know that later, in late antiquity, that the Vandals, a Germanic tribe, ruled North Africa
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Hannibal ante portas
SOS
Sandman, Nothing has really changed 😉
SOS
Player #25874027, Maybe that's where that saying came from (when the pigs were catapulted they "flew")
SOS
Montana Lady, That's awful! The poor animals. Some humans are so cruel! 😥
Tom
Jaminus Optimus, yes, that is my understanding too. the Carthaginians were Phoenicians who colonised north Africa Persia. Even, it is thought, it might have been by Trojans after the fall of Troy. But, there was also a sudden loss of Empires and trade due to the 'Sea Peoples' (late bronze Age). Which is might have produced refugees fleeing the Eastern Mediterranean area (and other areas).
Anyway, the Carthaginians/ North African were olive skinned.
boricua
Player #18390045, there was some serious incest going on if we are to believe that "story"