The armies were made of amazigh who were punicized. The elites were actually punic, so that was too little. Although jews and what not migrated to the maghreb. No one really knows the exact cause of that levantine ancestry
interesting I thought it was massive Punic migration from palastine/Lebanon to North Africa . But what if I say Canaanite/Phoenicians already mixed in with amazigh before the Punic empire ?
I mean remember the canaanite aka the hyksos was already in North Africa ruling ancient Egypt before the Egyptians threw them out . I think some probably went to amazigh and mixed with them so itโs a long period of time
Since Hyksos ruling Egypt to Greek ruling Egypt (Phoenician was moving different places under Greek empire ) to Punic empire .
There is no genetic proof, amazigh are not arabized. You have to understand, amazigh are the ones who retained their culture. Arabs are not, arabs are the ones who are arabized amazigh.
I donโt think you need genetic proof to prove if a certain ethnic was arabised.
Amazigh are not the only arabised group
Pretty much the whole Levantine country and Iraq .
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Amazigh , palatine , Lebanon , Syria , Iraq etc cultures have many similarities as well speaking Arabic with their own twist from each ethic group .
why do you think majority of clothing , dancing etc are literally the same as Egypt and other middle Arab countries
