Chronology of Amaziɣ History part III: Amaziɣ Kingdoms

Amaziɣ Kingdoms

220 B.C.: Syphax, king of Masaesyli Numidians.
Syphax ⵙⵉⴼⴰⵡ

Syphax receives Scipion.
by Fresqued'Alessandro Allori

218 B.C.: Outbreak of the Second Punic War. Hannibal marches an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into the Valley of Po in northern Italy.
Rome & Carthage after the 2nd Punic War

Hannibal & his army at the Alps

204 B.C.: The Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio (Scipio Africanus ) allies with Masinissa against coalition troops of Syphax and Carthage.
Young Scipio Africanus t
he Elder is from a gold signet ring from Capua
(late 3rd or early 2nd century BC) signed by Herakliedes

203 B.C.: Defeat of Syphax. Masinissa annexes Cirta and makes it the capital.
Portrait of the king Massinissa.
His name in Tifinaɣ and in Latin (MASNSEN)

174-150 B.C.: Masinissa gradually recaptures cities and territories under the Carthaginian domination.

150 B.C.: Numidian-Punic War. The Carthaginians defeated at Zama.
Zama tapestry
Meeting of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama.

148 B.C.: Masinissa's death. Apportionment of the Massylii Kigdom among his sons.
Masinissa's tomb

146 B.C.: Destruction of Carthage. Beginning of the Roman occupation in North Africa (The province of Africa).

134 B.C.: Jugurtha, Micipsa's nephew, honored at the Siege of Numantia.

118 B.C.: Death of King Micipsa. Jugurtha is associated with the affairs of the state.

116 B.C.: Jugurtha expels his co-heirs and unifies Numidia. Arbitration with Rome who shares the country.
Numidia

112-104 B.C.: War against the Romans.After long resistance, Jugurtha is to the Romans by his stepfather Bocchus I, the king of Mauretania.


Early 1st century B.C: Reign of vassal kings.