Paullus Fabius, you are absolutly correct, Hannibal was from Carthage, which is located in North Africa, but he was hardly black; being a Phoenician if we really think about it, he was likely a Semite, but not black. Likewise with Cleopatra, who was a Ptolemy, and therefore a Greek, and quite white. Then again, we are talking Hollywood, you know the folks that brought us Spartans going to war in the classical Greek version of speedos.