Were the Numidians black? | History Forum I have the word ''black'' in quotation marks since there are thousands upon thousands of ethnic groups and we cannot be lumped into 4 or 5 races
Numidia royalty color skin - History Forum The Numidians were indigenous to North Africa and spoke a language closely related to Berber Look to modern Berbers, if you're curious what the Numidians may have looked like
Numidian cavalry effectiveness? - History Forum The Numidians were fast and acted as good scouts and numerical superiority but compared to heavily armoured cavalry like the Gauls and the Iberians they routed Caesar fought against Numidian cavalry of Labetanus
The Ancient Numidians | History Forum The Numidians of north Africa feature in history predominately as tribal allies, or mercenaries, in the service of Carthage or occasionally the Roman Republic Their skills as javelin-armed light horsemen were formidable, and they provided Hannibal and other Punic commanders with a sizeable element of cavalry
Pompey Magnus vs Scipio Africanus | Page 18 | History Forum The Numidians were skirmishing, therefore they were vulnerable to the elephants, but why weren't the Romans who were skirmishing also vulnerable at that time? Maybe their horses got scared of the elephants But wouldn't Numidian horses be more or less accustomed to elephants? As opposed to Roman horses
Numidians | History Forum If Numidians were ancient Berbers-Libyans as is the current view; then the question could be difficult As their ethnic makeup was vast and mixed as they immigrated
Were the Numidians black? | Page 2 | History Forum Were Berbers indigenous to northern African region? Or might they have originated from somewhere else? That's like asking if italians come from somewhere else This question is too broad ; the ethnogenesis of Berbers involved populations like Iberomaurusians, capsians, early european farmers
What happened to the Numidians? - History Forum In addition to what Dentatus said, Numidia had also probably been in decline since Jugurtha's war with Rome from 112-105 BC As for why Rome was able to annex Western Numidia, I think Juba I, as the king of Eastern Numidia, had seized control over Western Numidia as well, and so it became part of the spoils of war
Who do you think were the 10 greatest generals in history? The greek mounted javlinemen were similar to Numidians in their role however, the cavalry from the north of the Danubian valley like thracians, paeonians including lancers and scouts were from the Balkans with much steppe influence The eastern cavalry like the scythians grew up riding and shooting arrows
Pompey Magnus vs Scipio Africanus | Page 17 | History Forum B) The Numidians didn't simply move out of the way C) Masinissa was able to close the distance before Hannibal's Numidians did anything about elephants attacking them D) Even though Masinissa exposed his forces to fight against Hannibal's left, that infantry did not counter attack Masinissa while he was the one attacking