Masinissa
First king of Numidia from 202 BC to 148 BC
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He bet on Rome when Carthage still looked unbeatable, switched sides mid-war, and spent the next half-century turning a patchwork of Berber tribes into the kingdom that buried his former masters and fed an empire.
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Born around 238 BC to a Numidian chieftain allied with Carthage, Masinissa fought for them in the Second Punic War until he concluded Rome would win and changed sides. With Roman backing he united the eastern and western Numidian tribes into a single kingdom, fought at Zama in 202 BC in the battle that broke Carthage, and allowed his wife Sophonisba — a Carthaginian noblewoman who'd worked against him — to take poison rather than face Roman triumph. Over 54 years he expanded Numidia into the dominant power in northwest Africa, deliberately provoking Carthage into the war that ended in its tota…
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