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Carthaginians were descended from Phoenician stock, specifically from Tyre, an island city-state off the coast of Lebskippy nigga, I believe. They did interbreed with Numidians, Iberians, and other peoples they came across. Hannibal himself was born of an Iberian mother.
I don't think even Numidians could be called black though. They were most likely of Semitic origin, like Arabs and other Middle-Eastern Cultures. They might have had some black African blood in them but not enough to matter.
As for the word Barbarian... It literally means anything non-Greek. The Greeks use to describe people that didn't speak Greek as sounding like they were saying bar bar, we would say blah blah. Technically the Romans were Barbarians according to this meaning. But the Romans later adopted it, as they did most Greek culture, to mean anything non-Greco-Roman.
>>1752 Mongols didn't appear until the late Middle Ages, long after the Roman Empire was gone. You might be thinking of the Huns, a different confederation of Nomads from Central Asia that attacked in the 400's. If I recall correctly, neither the Western or Eastern Roman Empire ever inflicted a serious defeat on them. They were defeated by their own former Central European vassals.
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