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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by [b]PreColonialAfrica13[/b]: I disagree lioness, Carthage was a Phoenician colony(one of many) that evolved into a powerful naval empire independent of phoenicia. What makes them distinct is their mixing with the native berbers of northern africa and the fact that Carthage created colonies throughout Gaul, Iberia, Northern Africa,etc. They were Semitic AND African, they were famous for their African war elephants and using Numidian cavalry. [/QUOTE]Can you expand and clarify your statements. African is a continental identity. Semitic is a language not an identity. Many Ethiopians are African and Semitic. As far as I can make things out Carthage's people over time became more of African ancestry than Levantine and identified themselves strictly as Carthaginian by cultural ethnic identity but not Canaani. As an example, self identified Carthaginian Severus his tondo shows different phenotypes for himself and his Syrian (Syria => Ssur => Tyre) wife. Admittedly much ethnic flux over 1000 years altered or added to both North African and Levantine phenotypes. Both regions had their indigenous black types as well as non-black types -- and black is not limited to Africans south of the Sahara, there are many unrelated black peoples in the eastern hemisphere still today. Many people in the Tunis/Libya region were identified as Liby-Phoenics by the Greeks. I guess these were people who didn't rank one of their antecedents over another. Others simply retained African identity despite any extra continental infusions. Anyway, you are absolutely correct that Carthage very early on was completely independent of Canaan though Carthage did pay rent to the Afrigha up until the time of Mago. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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