Did the African Moors Develop Europe?
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- It remains a topic of interest to many curious minds as to how the African Moors developed Europe, and even more, what part the Moors played in birthing the now famously civilised continent. #HistoryVille
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:35 Who Were the Moors?
03:03 The Arab Conquest: Arrival of the Moors in Europe
05:39 The 800-Year Moorish Reign in Europe
07:33 African Moorish Influence on Agriculture and Food in Europe
09:56 African Moorish Influence on European Culture and Language
12:19 African Moorish Influence on Architecture and Arts in Europe
14:46 African Moorish Influence on Education in Europe
16:49 The Reconquista: Fall of the Muslim Moor Empire
18:33 Remnants of an Empire: The Legacies of the Moors
20:30 Next Video
Moors were a conglomeration of Amazigh (Berbers), Arabs and South of the Sahara Africans such as Malinke, Soninke, Hausa and Fulani.
Souther Africans? The term sub saharan is a racist, inaccurate and revisionist term. The black people who were Moors came from.the Sahel and North Africa.
Based on the depictions or Moors in European artwork during their rule and afterwards, the Moors seem to be mostly made up of Black Africans.
And all wither from Ethiopia and North African and the sahel. Negroes are native to ALL of Africa.they were their first before berbers migrated in and carved out their own space. Albiet with some a mixing too.
*North African.
Moors and North Africans aren't black
The word moor only means black man bruh anybody who is black is a moor
At the time a lot of the Arabs were much darker in complexion. At that time before they started to have children with Caucasian female prostitutes lighting the complexion of a large percentage of their race.
Still All black people were considered moors. The word Moor was synonymous with negro or dark skinned.
@@Barak144 if this were the case, they would test positive for subsaharan dna. They don’t.
No one ever mentions the fact that there were Black Africans living in Europe who were Catholics under the Visigoths. Before Mohammedanism (There was no Quran yet that is why you never see one with the Moors) the North African Coast was dotted with Catholic Monasteries with Black African Monks. The Moors may have had alot of help already in Spain when they arrived.
The original people were Amazigh people. There are also many other tribes, Tebu, Tuareg, Mauri, Garamentes, etc. The phenotypes were various.
Yes, very diverse… first honest comment.
Not just Moors from Africa. Remember that local population also converted to Islam, and Africans did intermarry with local Europeans. So Al Andalus is a mixture and joint project of Arabs, Berbers, Goths, Hispano Romans, as well as Europeans from the north. Since Al Andalus did have slaves of European origin.
Given that the greatest developements in Europe happened after the Moors were kicked out, and not even in the parts of Europe where most advances took place, it takes some mental gymnastics to think they developed it.
It's just idiotic nonsense.
Well they influenced and kickstarted it
Europe has done way more destruction than great developments. Look at all the trash in the air and in the sea as a result of European “development”. Yeah, right… Don’t get me started on y’all.
@@CamElRodriguezSnrJnrIII the only thing that they influenced is pedophillia
What is your primary source for that statement?
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It’s a website filled with truth and lies be careful
No it's not. Anyone can post anything and a lot of information is oversimplified, omitted, and exaggerated.
This video is complete hogwash. Good luck with that edumacation.
No it's not! The Umayyad occupation of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) was made by the Umayyad Caliphate (Arabs) that conquered all Arabia, Mesopotamia, Levante and North Africa in 7th Century. And then occupied the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) from 8th to 13th Century in Portugal (1249). From 8th to 15th Century in Spain (1492). In terms of Kingdoms it was the Umayyad Caliphate, Fatimids, Almoravids, Almohads and Nasrids. In other words thousands of Arabs, Amazighs and also thousands of Persians and Syrians that the Ummayad Caliphate brought from Mesopotamia and Levante to North Africa. Amazighs (Berber) armies were used by everyone in North Africa. Phoenicians used them. Romans used them. Arabs used them. Pretending that all the Knowledge that Arabs brought to Iberian Peninsula didn't came from Arabia, Mesopotamia, Levante and Egypt is just being biased. In the end of the day the influences left in the Iberian Peninsula are Arabic. The algebra that we use is Indian-Arabic. Our languages (Portuguese and Spanish) have hundreds of Arabic words adaptions. And Nautical Science, Navigation, Astrolabe, Sextant none of that came from Africa. Iberians were sea people at least since presence of Phoenicians in 1100BC. Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire) spread all around the Mediterranean Sea coming from Lebanon, Syria where they emerged in 3000BC. The fact that they used berber cavalry in the Maghreb 'cause they set the Capital of their Carthaginian Empire in Carthage, Tunisia built in 900BC, doesn't make them African.
Portugal was born in 1143 (12th Century) and defeated the Muslim Moors (Arabs, Persians, Syrians and Amazighs (Berbers)) in 1249 (13th Century). That's before Mansa Musas's Mali "Empire" that only florished under the control of the Islamic World and as vassals of the Sultans of Mecca. Portuguese Navy, Nautical Science, Navigation, Boat construction is the result of several Schools the Kingdom implemented bringing Specialist from all the World. In 1415 Portugal started the Age of Discovery by conquering Ceuta (Muslim Moors City in North Africa) and started sailing to get to India around Africa in 1419. And did it with boats and skills that changed World's Nautical History forever. In 1500 Portuguese were already the first Global Empire of the World with territories in all Continents. From China to Brasil. What Portuguese found in Southern Regions of Africa were primitive tribes not even comparable to Egypt that by that time was already quite primitive when compared to European Empires! Stop propagating lies you're embarassing yourselves (Americans) and real Africans! Best Regards from Portugal, American Kangz!
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The paintings are gorgeous!
they are modern painting, look and medieval spanish catholic painting, moor are not black negro/sub-saharan african hunter-gather with no writing script and speak bantu and niger-congo langauge, they are arab and berber people, and also native Iberian muslim. they speak arabic, writen in arabic, and mozarabic(latin writen in arabic script). they are not black negro, afrocentric love to steal others people credit and civilzation, same with ancient egypt, olmec and ever khmer/cambodian who build angkor wat.
But they are fake pics . Most of them are imaginary pictures of 20th century. Not a single one of them is from Islamic Spain era .
Amazing you’re finally admitting this factor of these known factors. The African people need to know that too the whole world need to know it need to be in the history books so they can study and learn the right way.
“ Africans “ are not one people. The history of the moors had nothing to do with history of black African people.
It's critical to understand Hamilcar Barca the father of Hannibal Barca Is the founder of the city Barcelona.
We have a book called The Royal African War Elephant and it is the first of its kind containing the sources of documents and images of the African use of the war elephant in sub-Saharan africa. Available on all online markets.
The Royal African war elephant
Interesting you say this, it is only sub-Saharan Africa or Black Africa that would use Elephants in war. If Hannibal was not fully Black, which I personally think he was, he was definitely part Black African, it has been stated that his father was full Black African, and his mother was a concubine slave of White European origin.
@@treycampbell3533 quite possible.
The Barcids founding Barcelona is an urban legend. Under the Ebro Treaty with Rome, Carthaginian influence in Iberia was confined to lands south of the Ebro River, while Barcelona is north of it. The main Spanish city of note that was founded by the Carthaginians is Cartagena (Qart Hadasht), which was founded by Hannibal's brother-in-law, Hasdrubal.
Hannibal was Carthaginian, of Phoenician descent
why wasn’t southern Italy brought into this?
moor rule was there too
Most of them Sicilians have Black dna, you just have to look at the Tate brothers who both could pass as Southern Italians to see where the Sicilians come from.
Islamic rule in southern Italy lasted less than 25 years.
Still happened
@@kellenjohnson615 But it wasn't long enough to influence the area, unlike the centuries of Islamic rule in Iberia.
@@Meirstein 25 years..wtf? 😂...Sicily for example was under Islam for a grand total of 700 years apparently..not 700 years strait though I'm pretty sure. Sicily & Malta had basically the same history except Malta stayed more Arabic.
7:35 anyone know the name of this place, or where it is?
Yes, I know both its name and where it is
@@jordinas5497😂😂😂😂😂
The land of make believe.
0:32-0:37 I love how you say Renaissance😊
Europe will always denies that Moors bring civilization to Europe!
Because they didn't.
@@TTNL2442they did but they weren’t black they were like nowadays Moroccans
You guys can't cope, you're finally realising that your history is based on a lie, so you continue gaslighting. Look closely, some have negroid features. Cope. All the 3 Abrahamic religions are borrowed from black African religions. Go and do your homework.
Moors also ruled over Portugal, too as well
Oxford University and Cambridge University was founded by books and knowledge by the Moors of Spain.
True fact
The blacks were hired warriors by Berbers Sultans ! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
@@adamqa1Really? How do you know that? So the blacks had nothing to do with the achievements? On what do you base your assumption ? I'm not black by the way.
@@adamqa1Not true. Africans taught Eurasians everything. Series DNA show the potential for Genius. The higher the number the greater the potential for Genius. Ex. Monkies DNA series is 5, Eurasians DNA series is 6 and some Melanated Africans And DIASPORA MELANATED AFRICANS IN AMERICA IS 9. This study was done by a Eurasian on a copyright research paper that's hidden and hard to access.😮
Oxford was modelled on the Univ of Paris and Theology and Law were 2 of the main subjects...Neither of which would have any reference to the Moors, theologically because the Moors were muslims and their laws were Quranic..
@@michaelabbott9080 read the works of Bettany Hughes. Get over the 19th century colonial propaganda
An expensive, but sure way to figure out who the Moors are ethnically, is to go visit Morocco or other countries in Northwest Africa. There are some minor differences between early Moors and current north Africa, but their ethnic composition remains largely intact. Two insights will occur: 1) You'll come to realize the word "Africa" isn't always a "black" place. 2) You'll come to realize the overwhelming majority of North Africans are caucasiod Berbers. The closest ethnic relations to North Africa is the eastern Mediterranean and Southern Europe.
Yep. It's just that sub-Saharan Africans love the idea that they 'black people' ruled over Europe at one time. Spoiler, they didn't. There were some black soldiers and slaves, but the Moors were primarily Arabs, Berbers and European Muslims. There is a new rewriting of history by black people where they basically ruled everything, invented everything and were everything. AI is making it even worse, because now they can generate fake AI photos depicting themselves as kings and so on, and people are unfortunately stupid enough to believe it.
Prior to the Arab conquest of North Africa, Jews lived all throughout the coast and also within the interiors of the Sudan & Western Africa. . The ethnic population of the Moorish Empire consisted of Arabs, Native African Berber Tribes & Jews. . There were also many Jews at this time who had adopted Islam within the coasts of Africa because of the Arab conquest
Travels In Africa By Nahum Slouschz 1927 Page 365
However in 711AD, the conquest of Spain was again undertaken, this time by the Musselmans in concert WITH THE JEWS. The first one to set foot on the soil of Spain was General Tarif (“a Jew of the tribe of Simeon”), after whom the island of Tarifa, opposite Tangiers, was named. Another Israelite Berber chief, named Kaulan el Yehudi, followed the Arabs into Spain and, after the peninsula had been occupied by the Mussalmans, tried to raise a REBELLION AGAINST THEM. Among other Jews connected with the conquest of Spain were two sons of the Cahena, at the head of the army of Jerua.
stay down ,clown
Jews still live happily in North Africa especially Morocco (Maur-oc = maur land) where they are still most welcome today
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When you say Jews be specific. Because these fake Ashkenazi Khazarian Jews will take credit for something they were not involved in. So when you say Jews pls define that you mean Arab Jews or Black Jews or both. But definitely not white Jews
The Moors were basically a mix of Arab and Berber and only conquered the Spanish peninsular. As modern Spaniards have hardly any sub Saharan African in their DNA its bogus to infer as suggested here that black Africans developed or influenced Europe during this historic phase.
If you were as smart as you think you are you would know the word Berber means “non greek” or “foreigner” Berber isn’t a race. Berber ppl is simply anybody that isn’t from Greece …
@@thirsty57 Its not my sayso the Berbers /Amazigh are recognised as the indigenous
ethnic group of North West Africa. And they are not black.
@@thirsty57what the fuck are you on ??? The bereber is one of the tribes present in north Africa 😂😂😂😂
Why is it bogus to believe when the Northern Europeans didn't even bath, and had no civilisation when the Moors was ruling Spain.
@@davidmoftyou can't jus yell curse words and be right...berber cones from barbarians which is what Roman's called north Africans as well as all none Greeks and Romans...there is more than one berber tribe...the Amaiziah and the Tureg the most famous.
I would greatly appreciate if you can provide some references I can read and be more informed on that subject ? Usually, as you know, a book goes into much details than a short video. Please send me some books references if you receive that comment. Many thanks.
Its all bullshit. The moors didnt even rule all of spain and spain is a tiny peninsula in the south west of Europe. At that time the economic and cultural centres of Europe were in central and eastern europe, nowhere near spain
Thanks!
Wow. Thank you so much.
You give money for a historic lie?
Moor simply mean,: black or dark skinned.
No, it referenced Muslims. Revision history much?
@@stevenbeebe35 - That's what they do. I think the REAL history is too difficult for them to process. :/
No it means Muslim
Amazing...so Africans brought civilization to Europe and brought Europe out of the dark ages. Thanks for sharing history.
WE WUZ CIVILIZERS N SHEIT. LOL
@@easterworshipper730 sorry can’t understand your words.
@@CanaryKin yes you did.
@@easterworshipper730 sorry buddy. Can’t help you.
@@CanaryKin you cant help yourself, kang. LOL
WE WUZ MOORZ N SHEIT.
How many of you went into the islamic world as slaves ?
In England we have Morris dancers. I read that it used o be Moorish dancers. How did they get so far?
They traded
The first crusade was not that of Holy Land in 1095, but one issued by a former pope in 1063 to reconquer Spain. It recruited many christians from France. Even though that crusade wasn't too successful, the crusaders managed to capture singers, players and dancers from moorish Spain who were taken to France inspiring the trovadours (romantic music beyond the former religious chants). During the angevine empire, that style passed to England.
There's no connection whatsoever.
@@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533 The instruments were different and the style evolved in Europe, changing tempo and rhythm. Imagine a song like Greensleves played faster with the typical arabic instruments.
@@audiovideando1592 There is no connection between North African Moors and morris dancers.
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Thank you.
Nearly 800 years of Moorish rule did more than just imprint ideas into and onto Spain. Moors mixed their DNA with Iberians during that time and that remains as much as the ideas do.
@imperialstrategies6065 The Romans invaded and ruled Britain for over 300 years. The Anglo-Saxons invaded and ruled them for 600 years. They were also ruled for 100 years by the Vikings ... they know about, and have experienced, mixing many times. The Moors did have contact with the British Isles and even had settlements in Scotland and England, which is probably why certain flat plains in those areas are called "moors", because those were the areas where the African Moors settled/inhabited.
And that is how you can tell moors weren’t black as 10% of their population share the same dna as north african/moroccan dna.
@siminho10
Yep, you again. Citing made-up stats with no credible source. Hahaha!
@@SteelerzReignSupremeII it’s not made up stats clown it’s know stats. Takes literally a minutes to google it. Here i’ll help you, go on google and write : « subsharian dna found in the iberian peninsula » and then write : « north african dna found in the iberian peninsula
They also brought fashion to To the culture. The Moors loved fashion they help Europe expand fashion because they one wore one garment the whole year long. It should be movies made about them but we know how Hollywood operates and who controls it.
Black ppl are such giving ppl 😊
causian monkey we are not black we are dark skin people with different ethnicity and language and culture mf
Why is a good question.
Why what? sub-Saharan Africans never ruled Europe.
What ppl fail to understand is that Africa is extremely diverse gemetically...Ethiopians and somalians, and Nubians were and are closer related to Europeans than to West Africans/Bantu
I wouldn't say closer related, because West and East Africa are still Black people from the line of Ham. I would also argue that the only Europeans that are closely related to East Africans are the Greeks and the Romans, and then obviously the inter-mixing of the Arabs. Most Northern Europeans have Neanderthal dna, which majority of these Black African people do not have.
Most Ethiopians that have taken the DNA test are proven to be 100 percent African! can't deny science.
Africa civilized Europe twice, from the Greeks and then again thru the Moors!
So European colonizers not ok, african colonizers ok?😂
the Greek were no black .
@@mansour9790yes
That's why Al-Andalus history is written in Arabic, because it's not Arab history but black history 😂😂😂😂😂
Exactly, but it all originated from Black Africa.
I think we should teach Arabic numerals in our schools.
Why
I think we ought to bin all these foreign extremist ideologies and concentrate our focus on reality.
Lol we do😂
This is an underrated comment
Already these are not Arabic numerals the real meaning but the FÉS numerals in reference to the oldest universities in the world where the origin of these numerals comes from. the Arabs simply erased them to make people believe that their origin is in the Middle East
Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh at-Tirmidhi.
Ahmad (22978) narrated from Abu Nadrah: Someone who heard the khutbah of the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) on the second of the days of at-Tashreeq told me that he said: “O people, verily your Lord is One and your father is one. Verily there is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab or of a non-Arab over an Arab, or of a red man over a black man, or of a black man over a red man, except in terms of taqwa. Have I conveyed the message?” They said: The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) has conveyed the message.
Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in as-Saheehah (6/199).
The Moors were from Mauritania and parts of Algeria, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Morocco, Niger, and Mali.
They were Arabs
@@user-ff3px4zn7d Africa too
Europe is thankful to moorish Spain
And they were rule by black which was moonish black
Don't they go Black face with red lips during the expulsion of the moors parade every year? The Spanish know who they were dealing with
Yes, a darker Arab people in comparison to the much lighter Spanish complexion.
Darker Moroccan white berber*
@@blackhawk7r221Oh, so now they are dark Arabs?? 😂😂😂😂😂 you can't make this shit up. Stop forcing yourselves to be what you will never be
@@blackhawk7r221lol yea ok
@@Ace-sb4il Research the parade before you respond.
Moors i juste Amazighs from Morocco.
And arabs from arabia
It wasn't just Spain.
They came from ancient Americans Phoenicians and more I just seen a book from the 1700s about it kurimeo ahau did a good video about this
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another L for the America educational system
Kurimeo Ahau .🤣🤣🤣
If I've seen his videos, the guy is really funny, his investigations are more fanciful than the Lord of the Rings. Lol 💀😆
@@EvwienureEjowokeoghene-uh5iq Another L for Africans who don't know their own history to they have to steal the white man's history.
The Moors were Arabs and Berbers having nothing to do with Blacks . Andalusia had an arabic culture known through its great poets like Abu Newas and its great scholars like Ibn Sinna , Ibn Roshd ,...writing in perfect arabic.
Their works never mentioned Blacks. When the Moors fled to North Africa, they settled in old North African cities such as Fes, Tlemcen , Algiers , Tunis ...where their descendants still live today, they are known for their fair skin not showing the smallest hint of blackness.
moors were black african from the songhai empire, masamuta force convert his empire to muslim and utilize the arab language, its a religious conversion not conquest, thats what gave the arabs access to west africa and spain, there were no berber civilation, you were nomads , no library no mathematics, thats mali empire and songhai empire, the berbers were nomads traiters queen elizabeth 1 gave the berbers ships of gun powder and guns and the berbers attack the songhai empire destroyed it burn timbuc tu thats how the songhai empire fell if the berebrs were civilize you would still be civilize you were mercinaries with no history the songhai empire included mauritania and south algeria, stop your bullshit there is no berber civilization its black west african mali empire, songhai empire where books and knowledge was more valuable that money up to this day you berbers arabs still attacking black african you were never any civilization, you couldnt develop spain you were mercinaries then you are now
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Moor Etymology = "From Mauritania"
Arab has nothing to do with race, but go ahead and research the first Arabs. They look they were they look today due to the Barbary slave trade when Arabs bought so many White women that it changed the region within 200 years.
@@1SUPR3M3 lies you wouldnt attack and enslave the black population , mauritania still practice shattle slavery songhai empire didnt practice it, the arabs still do, they need to be freed
Blacks want everyone from history that did anything to be black. It is sad and the mainstream is perpetuating it.
Who denys history written in stones?????
From the 100s-600s all of Mauretania & Hispania were Orthodox christian. From 411 and 453 they were invaded by the VANDALS & GOTHS. In the 600s the BAETIC of Cipalis or Cibola (Seville), left for Terranova. The Umayyad califat ruled in Hispania from 711-900. Then the Almoravid-(Moors), ruled from 900-1200s. After which they left and invaded the Niger river peoples. Lastly leaving a small Moslem Kingdom of Granada from 1200-1492. These left with the Turks becoming the Ladino of Turkey.
Eventhough there's an argument that suggest Moors to be those of Mediterranean and Turkish Ottoman kelt, not in the slightest to be considered African, according to sources, Black Moors were said to be relatively wealthy decorated military commanders and highly sophisticated academics.
The Moors were the original black Berbers who lived in North West Africa. Migrations and race mixing lightened them up through the years.
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Not really, Berber as well as the Moor' culture are actually post Maghreb.
As in, these are modern African ethnicities.
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Btw, tere's no such thing as a Black Berber, It's either your Berber or of Moorish origin or you aren't, there really isn't no in between. It's no different for a modern day Egyptian claiming to be an "Ancient Egyptian", the logic on both instances are flawed eitherway.
@@adeamujale A Black Berber is a Berber who has black or dark skin
@@adeamujale the moors were black people
North Africa and Spain have been long part of an european empire, the roman empire. During that time many european lived in Africa long before Arabs. Alger (Iconium) has been founded by Romans for example. Morocco and Spain were even part of the same roman district, the "diocesis Hispaniorum". After the fall of the roman empire, western Europe and north Africa has been invaded by germanic people such as Goths in Spain, Franks in Gaul and Vandals in Africa. Despite the fall of the empire, links have never really been broken between north Africa and Europe. They all shared the same christian religion and continued to have trade. In the 6th century north Africa was taken back by the eastern roman empire which controled Syria, Egypt and Palestine too. Then came Islam wich led to a profound ceasura between the islamic and the christian part of the mediterranean world. So North Africa had always had more relationship with Europe than with subsaharan Africa separated by a huge desert that was much more difficult to cross than the mediterranean sea.
Africans doesnt mean black. Africa is a roman name, they gave it to Tunisia after they have invaded it and it was inhabited by phoenicians (Carthag) who came from Middle East. So first people named Africans in history were not black. Moors, like Numids were not black. Most of berbers are not black, they even have lighter skin than Arabs. It is true that you also have some black berbers but they live in the southern parts of North Africa like Mauritania. So, it has been during a very short period that some black muslims dominated Spain : the Almoravid dynasty which originated from Mauritania and lasted 50 years before being overthrowed by Almohad who were Arabs.
If there were no Blacks in Northern Africa how did Germany at one point before the genocide of Nazis had dark skinned Germans pictures of the Moors have pigments of black
Aucun noirs n a dirigé l Europe et les almoravides n étaient pas noirs !!!!!!
Good breakdown thanks.
Exactly! "Mouros" for us Portuguese or "Maurus/Mauri" for Roman/Italians didn't refer to the same people necessarily. That's a vague term. For Romans Maurus/Mauri were the Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire) and their Amazigh (Berber) armies. For Portuguese and Spanish Mouros were the Umayyad Caliphate, Almoravids, Almohads, Nasrids that occupied the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) in 8th-13th Century in Portugal and 8th-15th Century in Spain. In other words Arabs, Persians, Syrians and Amazighs (Berbers).
Portuguese culture since Medieval Times was influenced by a lot of people Celts, Visigoths, Romans, Phoenicians and also Muslim Moors (Arabs, Persians, Syrians, Amazighs). As was South Italy for example since the Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire) 'cause they had territories/ports/cities all around the Mediterranean Sea since 1100BC. From their original Cities in Levante (Lebanon, Syria), to Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia where they built Carthage in 900BC (conquered by Romans in 146BC), Argelia, Morocco, South Iberian Peninsula, Malta, South Italy, South Greece.
Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire) used Amazigh (Berber) cavalry. So did Romans in their North African Provinces in Mauretanea (Morocco and Argelia). Not to be confused with nowadays Mauritania, the the Country.
For us Portugal (Born in 1143) the Muslim Moors (Arabs, Persians, Syrians, Amazighs) occupation only took 106 years till 1249, when the last Sultan of Algarve was defeated.
African had never been of any European rather invasion to steal. There was never any European religion in Africa before Andalus Islamic development which Europe carry herself high
It's amazing you say Moors are African when Africa doesn't claim them.
The Greek and Roman education came from Africa
While north Africa is indeed on the African continent, is it accurate to call it African? Or is it more accurate to call it Mediterranean? I think its the case as mentioned below that the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean basin have been in a multi millennial cultural and genetic exchange. The Anglo sphere’s ignorance of Africa as a monoethnic and genetic state represented by the peoples of West Africa is frankly bizarre and inexcusable.
Yes it’s more accurate to call it African. Like you just said it’s on THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA 🤷🏾♂️. Let me ask are you one of those people that call Egypt the Middle East???
Dumb question
You are correct, it is African. Why are people so pressed to make it something else?
This is an odd question …. Would you not consider Northern America , Americans ?
@@clintonpeabody4833 Interesting point. Do Canadians consider themselves Americans. Do Mexicans consider themselves Americans. Or for that matter, do Hondurans, Chileans, Argentines, Brazilians consider themselves Americans. I don’t know the answer to that question. I don’;t know that peoples consider their continental identity first. But again, I don’t know. My initial question is based on cultural and genetics forged by 1000s of years of trade and history. But again, just a question.
This is yet another proof that African greatness didn't start today. Africans have always been great. Thanks for the heads up on this fact.
It’s only by ignoring or being mislead about history so we come to believe that every people have no beauty or genius of their own.
Moors weren’t too dark
@@morosultanate692 they were dark theirs no such thing as”too dark” black people come in all shades it can b darkskin brownskin or lightskin we have all skin tones were dark chocolate to white chocolate
Being a coloniser is greatness ? OK.. Europe is the greatest then.
@@huncxo8566 so am i black? Im North African native, the best way i could describe my skin tone would be lightskin and even then they said i wasn’t black, so what am i?
All knowledge is natives knowledge all wars is eurocentric
Why did you wipe out my comment before I could have posted it?
Probably because you understand that this video is ahistorical.
It’s important to delve into history through reading, as images alone cannot provide a comprehensive understanding. It’s noteworthy that the Moroccan Sultans employed African soldiers in their armies. Some of these soldiers’ leaders were handsomely compensated by the Sultan, enjoying luxuries such as opulent houses, fine clothing, and companionship. However, their roles were confined to their military duties and they were not involved in the dynastic rule, the Moorish people in general, or the intellectual advancements of the time. These African individuals were hired warriors, their contributions primarily limited to their skills in warfare. Their lifestyle and compensation should not be misconstrued as having a broader influence on the achievements of the dynasties they served.
Why dont you cry more, that should help.
He was Black..
@@govinasimpson170 What they refer to as “black Moors” are "Abid Al Boukhari" or " The black guard of the Sultan", they are not ethnically Moors; they are African soldiers hired to fight for the Moors. Europeans who saw them on the battlefield with the real Moors called them “black Moors”. The Moorish movement in America originated from these African soldiers who went to america in slavery trades..
@@govinasimpson170 The Moors are Berbers, also known as Amazigh (Free people), they have their historical origins in Morocco and still live there today, the term “Moor” is derived from the Phoenician term “Mahurin”, which means "Westerners", they were named as Moorish kingdom 300 before JC. The Moors have white skin, while further south like in Mauritania they have a tanned complexion. However, they do not belong to the balck African ethnicity, typically associated with broad and flat noses. Can you see the difference? Do you understand the distinction between skin color and ethnicity? There are also dark-skinned individuals in India. Are they African? No!
But what does this have to do with who the Moors were?, like I said, the people of Morocco back then, do not look like the Moroccans now, and Mansa Musa was the richest man in the World and has links to family members that were Moors in Spain, so are you saying that these Moroccan sultans had more power than the richest man in the World?.
Before anyone refers to the Roman Empire as the main influence of civilising of the European continent, do not forget all the other empires that existed before the Roman Empire.
In fact if you look back in history beyond the Roman Empire, you will discover that many of those that preceded the Roman Empire originated from the East and South of the Mediterranean.
Prior to those earlier empires, Europe was considered lands populated by barbarians. In fact, the Romans, you could say, were civilised by these earlier empire builders, and could only continue to spread the knowledge they learned from these earlier conquerors.
I think it would be more realistic for us to admit to the fact that our collective knowledge has always been built on older knowledge throughout history and from peoples who came before us from other civilisations that were more advanced than ours at an earlier time.
Europe wasn't civilized by anyone, it developed its own civilizations. Greece and Rome were the most advanced civilizations of their time. Europeans already conquered half the known world with the Indo-European expansions in the Bronze Age, then they did it again with the Greeks and Romans, then they did it again in the modern era.
They weren't barbarians.
I stand corrected, as not all Europeans were considered barbarians by the ancients, mostly the Western and Northern Europeans.
No doubt, the Romans acquired much of the learned knowledge from the Greeks and possibly also the Anatolians and made much further advancements and refinements. But let's not forget the Romans were not in existence when the Greeks were at their zenith, and were considered not much more than barbarians.
The Greeks, in turn, were only able to develop their civilization on the backs of the Egyptians and Mesopotamians. Which if you well know, are not considered parts of Europe.
And I'm sure, despite the little that is known today, for sure, where the Egyptians and Mesopotamians piggybacked their learning from, to think any civilization could actually magically become civilised without the help of earlier peoples is nothing short of naivete.
Let me go a step further by pointing out that if it was not for the conquest and occupation of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Empire, Greek philosophy, mathematics and even medicine would have been lost forever because of the fall of Rome Empire and the ensuing dark ages.
Just as no man is an island, so neither is any collective of people able to advance on their own steam alone.
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@@Mauri7782 m0r0 tipic0
España y Portugal expulsaron a los invasores de África
Esta gente no tiene ni idea. Apesta a xenofobia
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A subject of interest.
That how Europe got out of the dark ages.. It was the Black Moors (Africans) from west Africa and the North east Africa
I'm getting worried about the levels of ignorance and racism in some comments. You guys think History is a children tale you wanna believe in.
@@audiovideando1592that’s literally what this video is about. There’s other countless videos on TH-cam about the moors. How is this racist? This is history.
@@thirsty57 The "black" moors? Don't you think that's ignorant and racist? The best known moors nowadays are Zinadine Zidane and Karim Benzema. How black are they? This is the same bullshit as: the ancient Egyptians were black, the Jews were black, Jesus was black. All in the same false and stupid direction.
Because it's fake we are tired of getting our identity stolen by black west Africans and black Americans please get a life man .@@thirsty57
The Umayyad caliphate, whose ruling class were Arabs from Syria got Europe out of dark ages. 😂😂😂😂😂 Why do blacks want to take credit for what Arabs and morrocans did??
I am from north Morocco and I got light skin dark hair .I did my DNA 99% north African ( Amazigh) In history also my great parent lived in Al Andalus . Like many Moroccan the percentage of Arab dna is less than 1% in Moroccan. We do have Arabic culture bc islam 🤍and north African culture 🤍bc we r the native people of north of Africa . Morocco got oldest sapien skull means all humans are all Moroccan. And we are diverse in how we look like . We admire all races and all cultures .Moroccan got mixte little with Iberian at Al Andalus time . Moroccan got also mixte with our brother from sub sahar african countries ( dark skin) . Moroccan are proud to be African and Amazigh and Arab ( culture ). Some Arab came to North Africa and brought islam but got married to Amazigh berber women so the Arab dna is very little in North of Africa . Dna studies prove it . We still admire Arabic culture bc the believes but we r not Arab
Amazighs are mixed at least since Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire) that came from Levante (Lebanon, Syria) and Roman Era. That just is incorporated in a North African label. I'm from Algarve, Portugal. We're not different visually. Cristiano Ronaldo and Gonçalo Ramos are also Moorish-Portuguese as i am. Best Regards from Portugal.
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we know history and more of the truth is coming out when the berbers with help from queen elizabeth 1 attack the songhai empire and burn timbuctu african progress stopped timbuctu was the place of all the knowledge not nomads berbers or arabs, you should familarize yourself with theThe Songhai Empire at its zenith extended over the current territories of Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Burkina Faso southern algeria all the sahel if you knew that there was no berber civilization they just used you to destroy the songhai empire and all those progress stoppped, you didnt continued it
Cwmraeg Welsh people hello! We're descended from amazigh 🙋♀️
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@@Novikedocumentaryexactly. This post was pretty irrelevant
YES.
Umayyads have lost Andalus and the Amazigh dynasties (Almohads, Almoravids) ruled it for centuries after
The Moors enslaved the Mali, you forgot that part. Mansa Munsa spent all his money, told his mercenary army of Moors and North Africans, Egyptians and Persians, that he had another gold mine discovered, after a year of waiting, His Mercenary Army began grabing the people for Mansa Munsa's debts. This started the Mali slave trade.
No, the Moors did not enslave Mali. Mali is a West African country that was once part of the Mali Empire, a powerful and wealthy state that flourished from the 13th to the 16th century. The Mali Empire had trade and diplomatic relations with the Moors, who were mainly based in North Africa and Spain. The Moors did not conquer or enslave Mali, but they did influence its culture, religion and architecture.
@@eingoluq oh yes they did, the university of Timbuktu has 10 of thousands of scrolls and records of the enslavement. Mali had no army of it's own. Mansa Munsa tried but gave up and went with all mercenary.
@@constantinople777christens5 everybody enslaved people form everywhere else. But that doesn't mean the entire of Mali wad enslaved by the Moors. That is asinine.
You're so full of shit you don't even know Mansa Musa was born into Islam already. The area was already converted to Islam. And it is illegal and haram to enslave another Muslim. In fact most of north Africa including Berber converted to Islam to prevent themselves from being enslaved.
So wtf are you talking about? The moors and Mali fought a lot. But they didn't enslave the entire lot of them. Mali sold slaves local and forgeign including Berber slaves to the Moors.
But to sit there and suggest they were enslaved by them means you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
One thing we do know is that after the reconquista the Barbary pirayes which included Black Africans, raided Europe and took white people as slaves. Some found their way to areas in and around Mali.
@@constantinople777christens5 Wait did you say Mali had no military of their own? now I know you pulling shit out of your arse...
You, the ignorant dumb ass that you are just said, Mali, the country that was an Empire, that expanded and dominated Western Africa and held sway over large swats of territory, with the largest gold reserves in the world, who was so large that when they marched through Egypt with their king and damaged the Egyptian economy, had no army to protect him and his riches?
You are either insane or a moron. The Mali empire army was famously large, and not to be trifled with. They even had names for their ranks of men. For instance, a Sangaran, was a commander with 10,000 men under him, while a Sere is a commander with 1,000. There were names for other sizes too. They even had terra cotta statues of their cavalry units. my god man you are a dumbass.
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Please answer this. If The Mali Empire had no army how did they conquer so many other states? How did they defend their own independence for so many hundreds of years? With so much wealth someone would have long since invaded and taken control of the source of all that wealth.
All music, poetry, prose, novel writing, dancing, musical structure in European civilisation is from Moorish Spain.
Yes They Did
I believe Europe was head , Greece, Roman
Africans were the original inhabitors of what is today called Europe, The Aryan speaking tribes migrated to this area. H.G. Wells "Outline of History" is a very good book concerning world history if you are really interested in the truth.
you do know that there are places in what old "european" dna is even today in majority and that people we speak about are identical to indo europeans in appearance
and for you ..from south to north ....from Hofmeyer scull to nazlet khater..we have been even south of Sahara long before you have been made
"aryans" as in romani from india ? it is true that these aryans migrated to europe
but if you mean blonde hair blue eyed, didn't they originate from the scandinavian countries ?
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blonde hair originated in ANE populations of Siberia most close to ancestors of Amerindians around 16 000 years ago ,Afontova Gora is the oldest fossil ( ANE are ancestors of countless populations ..from old pre Indo European population of Europe,to Indo Europeans and Amerindians...)
blue eyed comes from Indo Europeans ..either from east Europe or from Anatolia 10 000 years ago
And for Indo Europeans ...in essence for Europeans that are Anatolians ..they have been around in Europe for almost 20 000 years but they did start with "aggressive " expansion around 6 000 years ago that did end their cousins like western hunter gatherers
@@ServantofKemet interesting name ..why is oldest fossil in Egypt ...nazlet khater ...similar to fossils south of Egypt of that time a European (well ANE but for you.... people... that is the same ) ?
false. You people are hilarious.
Did the African Moors develop Europe? Depends on what encompassed Europe at the time. And it depends on what you think 'Moors' are. moors simply means Muslim. Moors were not necessarily Sub Saharan Black. In the north of Africa is Egypt, Tunis, Libya and Morocco who are not black. There were Moors in Malta and Sardinia etc and they are not sub Saharan black.
sorry to inform you but the original songhai empire language where the moors originated from was not arabic, mansamuta on his trip to arabia force convert his empire to muslim and adopted the arabic language we still have the original songhai empire language and direct proof they translated it to arabic it was a religious conquest not military also the mali empire, and the songhai empire where knowlwdge was more valuable that money, thats not arabic or mercinary nomad berbers who destroyed the songhai empire, by queen elizabeth the 1 gave them ships of gun powder and guns and they attack the songhai empire burn timbuctu and end african renaisan it you were anything that tradition would have continuted, its beacause it was never you but the black african of the mali and songhai empire and their adaption of islam contributed to the slow deprogress of the empire
first of all the word black was invented by a racist caucasian man we are not black secondly word white was also invented if you tell me you look white then u must be sick in the head also moors are darkskin people not black actually
@@sulner9997You can't defend lies. Moors is what European Christians called black people, do a simple research, it's everywhere. The people in North Africa today are simply the descendants of invaders. That land doesn't belong to them just as Palestinian land doesn't belong to so called Jews people in Israel today. Stop lying to yourselves, the truth remains the truth
@@sulner9997 The moors didn't originate from songhai, that's idiotic nonsense. In actual fact the Sahel was ruled by Berbers (whites) who came from North Africa. They introduced civilization and islam and ruled the primitive blacks who had no civilization of their own.
@@EmperorWewuzIII let me educate you the moors were not arabs or berbers the moors accepted arabs and berbers because of their muslim religion, thats why you claim them but the muslim arabs were black slavers women couldnt do maths or science, the moors were tolerant of jews their university linked back to timbuctu not north africa you had non when the mercinary berbers which is what you are got gun powder along with morroco and attack the songhai empire all of the golden age of africa stopped, most of the maths and science and enginering from the moors the navigation equiptment was built in timbuctu, if you were the moors and you attacked the songhai empire and destroyed it, your moor golden age should have continued, what took over was radical islam and piracy, timbucktu was the centewr of learning anf knowledge from the mali empire to ghana to songhai and the arabs and berbers of north africa didnt build anything close to it, when songhai fell the progress stopped whether you like it or not. because the moors were not a monolithic group you claim them but when timbucktu fell their was no more progress, why didnt you build some university up in algeria and morocco if you were the moors only one civilization didi that in that area and its timbucktu
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Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, [3] And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
they come from the caucus mountains.
the Bible is also a history book
“I Loved Jacob, but Esau I Hated”
1 This is a divine revelation. The Lord spoke his word to Israel through Malachi.
2 “I loved you,” says the Lord.
“But you ask, ‘How did you love us?’
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “I loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I hated. I turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the jackals in the desert.
4 “The descendants of Esau may say, ‘We have been beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins.’
“Yet, this is what the Lord of Armies says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called ‘the Wicked Land’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is always angry.’ 5 You will see these things with your own eyes and say, ‘Even outside the borders of Israel the Lord is great.’
The Christian bible isn't a history textbook, my advice is for you to bin all the nonsense you're currently peddling and instead go and pick up proper history books.
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DeSantis has already had those incinerated.
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What is more important to a mathematics student, a mathematics text book or the Christian bible?
It isn't a trick question, I really have no time for nonsensical gibberish, attempt the question or go and troll elsewhere.
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Uhhh am I missing something here?? 🤷🏻♂️ I’m sort of confused by your comment, but ok. I’ll play along.
My answer is obviously the mathematics book.
I’m not trying to be a troll. But if you feel that the Bible would be more useful, then I’m all ears on your reasons why that’s the case.
My apologies if you believe I’m being disrespectful.
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Right, a mathematics textbook is more important to a mathematics student, the same can be said with regards to a history student.
A history textbook is what's important to a history student.
The way you know the moors were black is because everytime they are mentioned in European writings they are almost always referring to someone black. There are very little European writings that describe an Arab as a Moor
plus they’d say the word “swarthy” which means dark skinned
@@andreharris144 dark skinned yes but not black
They use bitter tones 😂
@La Pie blanche Swarthy is another way to say dark-skinned. Alot of blacks in America today could be called swarthy.
@@cedricroney1475 “Moor” is an exonym used by Iberian Christians to refer to Iberian Muslims. They were people of Arab, Berber and Iberian origin. They were not black.
And they left a gorgeous architecture legacy, plus cuisine influence. Alhambra is one of the best examples.
I don’t understand what do moors in Spain and Portugal have to do with black Africans. There was never any black civilization anywhere outside of subsaharan Africa.
@@st3019 The Moorish empire (blacks) we're in control of a large portion of Europe (Large parts of Spain and Portugal included) for around 400 years.
Alhambra is build by christians and paid by jews.
Ask in Granada
Alhambra was built in 13th Century by Nasrids! Arabs!
@@st3019 They had black slaves, that's about it. They often castrated the males and used the females as sex slaves. Now blacks idolize the people who enslaved, castrated and raped them.
For all the good that they did, who did it really benefit? Those they gave it to are still in the presence of it, you can't find one Moor who stands on top of all that which they gave them and assists them in controlling others. Not that I'm a man of scripture by any means, but why would you cast pearls before swine?
only in fanatasy land does southern spain mean all of europe so when greeks and romans conquered egypt they civilized all of north africa.
Moors culture and Heritage like Architecture language dressing food ... where can we find it nowadays ???
Morocco, the moor's land. Of course you won't find it in any Sub Saharan country.
In Morocco first of. And in Portugal and Spain that were heavily influenced by "Muslim Moors" (Umayyad Caliphate, Fatimids, Almoravids, Almohads, Nasrids) or in other Words Arabs, Amazighs, Persians, Syrians. Thousands of Moors in Portugal gave out without a fight, converted to Christianity and embraced a new Kingdom/Religion. So there's still hundreds of Moorish-Portuguese families. Mostly in Lisboa, Alentejo, Algarve but also in Madeira and Azores Islands 'cause those Islands were populated in the early 1400's by Moorish-Portuguese families or the so called "New Christians". Cristiano Ronaldo's family has Moorish-Portuguese ancestry from Madeira Island. As does Gonçalo Ramos that just signed for PSG and his family is from Algarve (South Portugal). As does my mom's family originally from Algarve and afterwards from Ilha Terceira, Azores Archipelago. The Corte-Real Family. You can see it in João Vaz Corte-Real, Portuguese Navigator that by 1472 was sent to Denmark by the King of Portugal to re-establish the alliance between the Portuguese Kingdom and the Danish Kingdom that were united by families. In the process he explored the Ciasts of North America, Canada and Greenland. Has did his sons Gaspar Corte-Real and Miguel Corte-Real in the following years. And João Fernandes Labrador. All Navigators from Ilha Terceira, Azores Archipelago. That's how Terranova-Labrador (Newfoundland-Labrador) got its name. Also known in Portugal back then as "Terra dos Corte-Reaes" (Land of the Corte-Reaes) and "Terra do Bacalhau" (Land of the CodFish). The "Muslim Moors" (Arabs, Amazighs, Persians, Syrians) never left. Only the Muslims that chose not to convert and embrace the Kingdom of Portugal. The Reconquista weren't battles between races but between different Kingdoms and Religions. What we call Arabic/Moorish influences are treasured in Portugal and are part of our culture. Its present in toponimic names for example. There 146 Municipalities, Villages, Cities and Regions with Arabic Names. Most start by "Al". Algueirão, Alcabideche, Algês, Alcântara, Alcobaça, Alcácer, Aljustrel, Alandroal, Alentejo, Albufeira, Altura, Algarve, etc. It's shown in food, art, music, architecture, gold filigree, ceramic tiles (Azulejos), etc. But those are mostly Arabic. As both Portuguese and Spanish languages have hundreds of Arabic words adaptions.
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@brixcosmo6849 Brother, i just want to rectify one detail: Moors has nothing to do with the nations you described as Moors, moors as a name originate back from The Mauritania Tinjitana Kingdom "Old Moroccan" there people were and still being named Moors, and if you look for "Morocco" as name of Country you can see it clear **Moor-roco**, the use of Moor to describe all Muslims is like the one Americans use to describe the Latinos as **Spanishes**, if we come back to the history the Conquest came from the land Of Morocco via Tanger, i think that why we have this confusion, but by DNA and Fact Moors that were in Iberia are More related to Morocco than to any other today's countries, example in Portugal you have "Alcalla del moro" and else, even the dynasties that ruled there were originally from Morocco especially in Almouravides Almouahads and Marinides... even in the time of the Umayad, the rulers were Arabic, but the Army and the population of the kingdom were mostly North Africans and local converted people.
I went to portugal, and i was surprised how we look alike, i can't differentiate between a Portuguese and a Moroccan just by look.
@@med8895 i understand your point. Basically i'm saying this nothing to do with Ghana, Benin, Congo, Ethiopia, etc. I have a lot of friends whose ancestors are from those regions and even thuse find these American narratives stupid AF! 'Cause we still use the word "Mouro" for people that are "Morenos". And "Moreno" for us is a guy like Cristiano Ronaldo if we're talking about skin color and we also use it for hair color. Its our word for brunette. People in the North of Portugal still call "Mouros" to people in Lisboa, Alentejo and Algarve. And it's nothing racist or any type of prejudice. It's a reference to History 'cause in the Southern parts of Portugal thousands of Moors gave up without a fight and embraced the Portuguese Kingdom becoming Portuguese "New Christians". But in our case "Moors" ment Muslim of any type of color. We know by records and art the majority of those were more Arab/Amazigh/Berber looking than actually black. Not that we care about that we just don't like history being spoken with generalizations like Africans vs Europeans. Talk about Kingdoms and Civilizations. Many of these early Civilizations were multiethnic. Racism was a virus created by Northern Europeans centuries after the begining of the Age of Discovery started by Portuguese around 1419 after conquering Ceuta in 1415. Back in those 1400's 1500's Portuguese allied with Ghana Tribes, Kingdom of Kongo, Ethiopia, Ibduans, China, Japan. Portuguese narried Africans, Asians and Indians in Brasil. Slavery was a business all over the World. It had nothing to do with racism till it started to do when ignorant theories started to be spread by some and that virus caught millions of ignorants or not so ignorants that just wanted an excuse to do it. We are not different. My skin color is like Cristiano Ronaldo's. Gonçalo Ramos is more Moroccan than some Moroccan's 'cause they both come from Moorish-Portuguese families. The great majority of Portuguese coukd blend in as locals in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lybia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, etc. Moors is vague. Maurus/Mauri for Romans were the Amazigh/Berber tribes of Roman Provinces of Mauretanea and that was actually nowadays North Morocco and Argelia. Not Mauritania the Country. For us "Mouros" basically were all Muslim Moors and that would refer to all of those. The conquest of Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) wasn't done only by Almoravids and Almohads, Kingdoms born in the Maghreb Region of Morocco/Argelia. The last Emirate to fall in Spain, the Emirate of Granada was ruled by Nasrids and those were Arabs. Or looked like Arabs. We could call them Moorish-Spanish 'cause most of them were born in Spain. Or Spanish, Andalusians or Al-Andalusians. They most definitely weren't Congolese. In the end of the day were always speaking of mix of Arabs, Amazighs/Berbers but also thousands of Persians and Syrians that the Ummayad Caliphate brought to North Africa in the 7th Century. I know that by the 8th Century when the occupation of the Iberian Peninsula started the Umayyad Caliphate was already in decline and being substituted by Fatimids or others in Arabia. In the end of the day even the Almoravids and Almohads were under the umbrella of the Sultans of Mecca. But it's all very confusing. I've seen a lot of videos and there were so many disputes inside the Islamic World in that Era that is hard to keep up. But i understand you don't like to be called "Arabs". We also don't use it in Portugal like a lot of USA Citizens call "Arabs" to anyone that looks slighty Arabic (whatever that means) independently if that person is from Morocco, Saudi Arabia or Lebanon. If Cristiano Ronaldo was a regular guy he'd be called Arab or Latino in USA. We speak of People by their Kingdom, Civilizations, Nationality, period! A Moroccan is not an Angolan, a Chinese is not an Indian, a Portugal is not a Swedish. So we avoid labels like African, Asian, European. We use it in terms of Geography not to refer to collective ethnicities or cultures 'cause that's plain nonsense. Morocco is also visited by thousands of Portuguese every year. I personally has an Architect love its Architecture.
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Spain was muslim for 7 centuries, if you think that the moors of Spain were black, spain would look like colombia now 😂😂😂😂, but modern portuguese and Spanish share lot of similarities in look with north african amazigh and Arabs.
I'm Moroccan and lot of families in Morocco they still have their ancestors houses keys in Spain after they were kicked out.
There were hardly any White people in Columbia compared to Indigenous and African. In parts of Iberia, people are very dark and have a high percentage of both Moorish and later African DNA. Depending on the social structure, it is quite possible to have a segregated population based on religion and caste. Which is pretty much what happened, at least after the formation of Spain and the banishment of the Moors and Jews.
That said, I don't think the Moors were primarily "Black" as we consider it today.
@@GrahamNickerson I'm Moroccan, we still have the clothing traditions, the architecture, the knowledge, the music andalou Arab, medieval spain it's not hard to document, I can list all the muslim dynasties that ruled with names of governors starting from the omayades that has Damascus as capital then the abbaside then almoravide and alomoahade to independent Emirates in andalous, names of scientists : ibn rushed, ibn sina, ibn haitem, ibn tofail, khawarizmi....., all these are brown or white, majority. Of course Arabs and Amazigh used black in army but it's like France used senegalese in WW2.
And morrocans today are not black.
@@easterworshipper730 most are brown, the more you go north the skin get lighter and the opposite if you go south.
@@easterworshipper730 majority not black, majority arabophones and majority of amazigh tribes and look up the amazigh in the pyrmaids they were never described as black people and look up Libyan pharaoh who was from a libyan amazigh tribe and he was never black...man these people are literally stealing our history and heritage in the most ridiculous ways ever, they don't even know how to lie bro, it's so stupid and embarrassing...Mauritania is an old amazigh kingdom that existed along with Numidia and Africa after the fall of Carthage and amazigh tribes are majority non blacks and the skin gets darker as you go south reaching the sahel desert like Tuareg and some modern Mauritanian tribes.
it's like claiming that african americans are the indigenous people of america using the history of slaves in america as an evidence of existence...
If the Moor's ruled for 700 years then it was Moor's that founded California & Florida were African that why California name after a black woman 😅 Just something to think about
This muslin man is for Ethiopia when European fighting Roman Spanish portugues
Europe learnt from Africa and it is only 500 years ago
false.
Though it is true we all learn from eachother, as far as advancements in civilization africa did not contribute much at all. they didn't even have written language or a simple wheel for that matter. stop with the rivisionist racist lies.
@@tukek88 it is all from ancient Egypt to Greece then to Europe and to the wider world.
@@AliHassan-hb1bn Ancient Egypt was not controlled by black peoples. Ancient Greece was not black people. The moors arent even full black. This obsession with turning all of history into black history is getting ridiculous. the aryan races have always been at the center of civilization all the way back to Sumer.
@@tukek88 who is ariyan?
@@AliHassan-hb1bn the northern european tribes. Arabs are mixed with aryan. Abraham and Sarai were aryan, there son Isaac and his wife were aryan their twin sons were both aryan, Jacob and Esau.. Ishmael, abraham's son from his slave girl was half aryan he was the first arab (which means "mixed") . I could go on. Jacob married from his mother's brother, Laban (laban literally means "to be white") and he had 12 aryan sons who are the twelve tribes of Israel. Esau disobeyed his father and married from the caananites. Ten of the twelve tribes departed israel in 722bc and migrated by sea nad land. Some migrated through the caucasus mountains and were known by names like the scythians. These tribes later settled into northern europe. Many also traveled by sea and inhabited the lands of the iberian penisula and the british isles.
Moors were NOT Sub Saharan Black as pictured in the video ad. They were arabic, Nor African, much like Egyptians. Some developments were made, certainly. But Northern Europe was highly developed in its own right.
But moor means black
Prove it buddy.. No term term or location as sub-Saharan .. Provide your sources of Moors werent black . Bring them and I will debunk ur lies
@@andersonbin265why do y’all think there’s some invisible line in Africa that keeps dark skinned ppl below it? Mansa musa was a black African that was a moor. Also the richest man to ever live. You think with all the riches he had he never traveled to North Africa with his men? there’s no such thing as “sub Sahara” that was created by racist
@@thirsty57 bro! Im On your Side
@@andersonbin265 lmao my bad bro I thought I was replying to the main comment
Of course we did. And we did it twice.
@CanaryKin and @siminho10 Both of you are dead wrong. The muslim empire was centered around al-andalus and only with its decline did the center move to north africa. The first attempt was made by the almoravids who came from mauritania. They were succeeded by the almohads who were ruled by a family from Nedroma, an algerian city. Neither the almoravids nor the almohads were indigenous to the entity now called morocco. Both chose capitals in that entity for geopolitical reasons. As for the ethnicity of the Moors, they were Berbers. They were mostly brown-skinned people. They were in fact neither black nor white as some have made them to be. The europeans, in both art and literature, painted them as blacks in opposition to white europeans. The muslim armies also included blacks who converted to Islam. Slavery was an integral part of the Muslim empire and this very fact undermines the thesis that the moors were black-skinned people. As I have shown in a nutshell, this is the complex reality that the proponents of the opposite theses are unable of grasping.
Yes the moors picked up europa and brought civilization back to them ...thats why every secret society honors the Fez....most castles and cathedrals were created and built by moors....🙏🤚
Moors were mainly in Spain, most castles and cathedrals aren't there.
@alwa4735 sure..and a biological man can get pregnant 👍
Right on
Great comment alot of people don't know about the Fez in those secret society. They also honors the Koran
@rogernewsomejr4634 🙏..the Koran, Torah, bagavagita...etc are science books ....these secret societies around the world can end many debates that plaques modern times but then power will be gone...sad..
The word "Moor" means black and there are statues and artwork that shows the Moors as black. Lot of lies in the comments.
Nope it means Morocco none of that exist of them being black
@@the3zoooz1 liar
@@the3zoooz1people there now are invaders. They're not indigenous to Africa.
@@the3zoooz1 uhm in Spain I've seen so many black moors statues than the Arabs.🤔
Provide this proof of black statues in Spain. Lol
the Moors ruled europe for more than 800 years ? (16.min45) okay, not so much, it was majority of hispania, there were other Large empires at the time, Al-Andalus was big, strong and important for sure but one of a number of such important Empires.
After 500 years (750-1250) central Iberia was back in christian rulers, only in the south the Emirate of granada lasted 300 more years.
Also, if history is so wrong and Black Folks were involved all over, where have Black people in europe been then ?
I love the Black African Nations and Cultures, Mali, Nigeria, Kongo, I love the walls of Benin and the stories about it. Black History does not need White Charity. i wish you all a great day !
Did the Moors civilize Europe ? nope, the influenced of course in many good ways, but they were not the only nor the strongest influence at the time. whats happening here?
Moorse were also black
المور هم سكان موريطانيا الطنجية أو ما يسمى الآن المغرب و هم أمازيغ و لا علاقة لهم بسكان إفريقيا جنوب الصحراء. بعد دخول المور لإسبانيا تكونت بعد دلك إمبراطوريات كالمرابطين و الموحدين و المرينيين و السعديين في المغرب و إنظم لها سكان من الصحراء الكبرى كالطوارق و قليل من العرب القادمين من تونس الحالية فأصبح إسم المور يطلق على جميع هذه الإثنيات.
الوجود العربي كبير اترك عنك الكذب يا امازيغي
WE WUZ KANGZ N SHEIT.
They wuze Kings and Sheit 🤣
No, we wuz Arabs and sheet!
@@SteelerzReignSupremeII
Yes we were my slave
Europe was already civilized hundreds of years earlier. The Roman Empire? The Greeks? Sure, the Moors invaded during the dark ages but there was still civilization in Europe at the time. The Byzantine Empire existed, for one. And the Moors only took over Spain, not all of Europe. I can concede that some advances may have spread over Europe from Moorish Spain, but overstating their influence this much is just crazy.
it was not overstated they brought ship building mathermatics university 17 university they made you what you were lionardo divenchi who you celebrate, a moor did a fix wing flight hundered of years before it work but didnt landed well the moors built europe it was the most significant development in histore just read your history where britain france traslate the more maths and scientific method to their language
@@sulner9997 You can barely spell, I don't trust a word you type. The Moors had a massive population and invaded a weal europe (ineffectively). Look at Africa today. They've still not built or innovated a damn thing. An embarrassment.
@@sulner9997 I think their influence is big but overstated. Renaissance didn't start from Spain where moors were mainly located and they didn't built Europe. Spain wasn't as influential as other european countries (where moors never ruled). Moreover, their rule wasn't always as peaceful and beneficial for native population of tha land they colonized.
@@alwa4735 oxford university was built from Spain through the Jews, also the french plus they translate their science books and rewritten it in their local language, the Renaissance couldn't happen in a vacuum you need a develop country to piggy back off and now we know it was moorish Spain, like the united states' rebuilt Europe Japan , Taiwan , south Korea
@@sulner9997 Oxford wasn't built from Spain. This doesn't make any sense. Why moors would build universities in a far away countries? Why reaissance didn't originate from Spain?
United States borrowed money for some european countries after WWII and it wasn't done without their own interest in it. Some countries used those money in a better way and that's why there were different outcomes in creating successful economies. US can't take credit for achievments of Germany, Japan and the rest.
You are right that renaissance could't happen in a vacuum. It started in Florence, Italy. There was an increased inerest in achievments and art od ancient Greece and Rome. Muslims, to their credit, copied and preserved knowlegde from many ancient manuscripts from those civilisations.
Again, who denys history written in stones????
Then Europe vanished them then went to Africa and enslaved them
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
Moor was a derogatory term used by Christians to describe Muslims in Spain. Moor did NOT mean black African. There were black soldiers as mercenaries in Muslim armies who were called “ black moors “ but they were never part of any ruling elite or native population anywhere outside of subsaharan Africa and Sahel region.
Also moors did not civilized Europe. This is totally a LIE. In fact Europe was gradually recovering itself after 8-9th century and Islamic invasion of North Africa and Iberian peninsula stopped that progress
Yes they civilized your ancestors otherwise you wouldnt enjoying the privilege to use the internet
@@Mauri7782 west africans did take zimbabwe 1000 years before europeans came..and did develop trade routes to sell "meat "
europeans did develop "the breadbasket" in less than 100 years ...what pattern do we recognize
Lol there were tropical Africans in ruling elite positions in Arab territories so why wouldn’t there have been in Europe?
@@dorianduka West Africans didn’t know the existence of wheel until 19th century when western civilization introduced it to them during colonial era. What’s your point?
The word Moreno literally comes from the word Moor, meaning dark or dark skinned, you people need to stop your racism corupting your ability to learn the truth.
Truth.
"A" Rabs? Lord have mercy. Andalus was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. There's some confusion in this video between the influence of Arab language, culture, and architecture versus native Berber influence from Mauritania, Morocco, and Algeria. The blue Spanish tiles are definitely a cultural import from Morocco. Geometric designs are Islamic.
The moors weren’t all black only some of them were. moors are not a ethnicity they are just muslims native from africa.
Find the definition of black before commenting
You are right and the first army to march to Spain where mostly Moors who are barber not blacks (Sudans).
@@Crypto-News.Arabic barber? Or Berber? They were great in cut and shave😂
This is not true! The Umayyad occupation of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) was made by the Umayyad Caliphate (Arabs) that conquered all Arabia, Mesopotamia, Levante and North Africa in 7th Century. And then occupied the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) from 8th to 13th Century in Portugal (1249). From 8th to 15th Century in Spain (1492). In terms of Kingdoms it was the Umayyad Caliphate, Fatimids, Almoravids, Almohads and Nasrids. In other words thousands of Arabs, Amazighs and also thousands of Persians and Syrians that the Ummayad Caliphate brought from Mesopotamia and Levante to North Africa. Amazighs (Berber) armies were used by everyone in North Africa. Phoenicians used them. Romans used them. Arabs used them. Pretending that all the Knowledge that Arabs brought to Iberian Peninsula didn't came from Arabia, Mesopotamia, Levante and Egypt is just being biased. In the end of the day the influences left in the Iberian Peninsula are Arabic. The algebra that we use is Indian-Arabic. Our languages (Portuguese and Spanish) have hundreds of Arabic words adaptions. And Nautical Science, Navigation, Astrolabe, Sextant none of that came from Africa. Iberians were sea people at least since presence of Phoenicians in 1100BC. Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire) spread all around the Mediterranean Sea coming from Lebanon, Syria where they emerged in 3000BC. The fact that they used berber cavalry in the Maghreb 'cause they set the Capital of their Carthaginian Empire in Carthage, Tunisia built in 900BC, doesn't make them African.
Portugal was born in 1143 (12th Century) and defeated the Muslim Moors (Arabs, Persians, Syrians and Amazighs (Berbers)) in 1249 (13th Century). That's before Mansa Musas's Mali "Empire" that only florished under the control of the Islamic World and as vassals of the Sultans of Mecca. Portuguese Navy, Nautical Science, Navigation, Boat construction is the result of several Schools the Kingdom implemented bringing Specialist from all the World. In 1415 Portugal started the Age of Discovery by conquering Ceuta (Muslim Moors City in North Africa) and started sailing to get to India around Africa in 1419. And did it with boats and skills that changed World's Nautical History forever. In 1500 Portuguese were already the first Global Empire of the World with territories in all Continents. From China to Brasil. What Portuguese found in Southern Regions of Africa were primitive tribes not even comparable to Egypt that by that time was already quite primitive when compared to European Empires! Stop propagating lies you're embarassing yourselves (Americans) and real Africans! Best Regards from Portugal, American Kangz!
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All of that for nothing. Fragility.
@@shinebright2898he wrote a whole book novel for nothing smh
@@explodev2550lol for real
Waste of ink
@@shinebright2898 Fragility is not knowing your own ancestors history. Research Asante (Ghana), Dahomey and Kingdom of Benin (Nowadays Benin and Nigeria), Kingdom of Kongo and Queen Nzinga (Angola). Those are the responsibles for capturing and trading your ancestors just like gold or ivory. You've got nothing to do with Amazighs from the Maghreb Region. We know our History so do our dear Moroccan neighbours. We don't accept Americans trying to re-write History with their Netflix and Hollywood Fairy Tales. Your history is 247 years old, American. Embrace it!
Bruh they still walking with baskets on there heads
Sorry to have to inform you that Araba is one of the Ahmeto or Afroasiatic languages that derived from Amara.
sorry to inform you but the original songhai empire language where the moors originated from was not arabic, mansamuta on his trip to arabia force convert his empire to muslim and adopted the arabic language we still have the original songhai empire language and direct proof they translated it to arabic it was a religious conquest not military also the mali empire, and the songhai empire where knowlwdge was more valuable that money, thats not arabic or mercinary nomad berbers who destroyed the songhai empire, by queen elizabeth the 1 gave them ships of gun powder and guns and they attack the songhai empire burn timbuctu and end african renaisan it you were anything that tradition would have continuted, its beacause it was never you but the black african of the mali and songhai empire and their adaption of islam contributed to the slow deprogress of the empire
Tell me more about Songhai, I'm pretty sure that the Moors, if not, originated in Northern Africa are from West Africa as well. My point moreover was about the origin of Arabic. @@sulner9997
@@sulner9997 That was the game changer, when they got hold of guns and cannons it was over for these African Empires.
This is white man bullshit
Moors are not Arabs but people of Mali, Somali, Sudan, Mauritania, Tuareg, Niger and fulani race. Painting with Arab colours won't help you.
Thanks some Light skinned North Africans are trying to revise history by spewing lies about Moors not being of South Saharan Africans are there not Black Libyans Moroccans and Mauritanians
@@nisigate There is nothing negro about historic Berbers or Moors. They are a Northwest African desert coastal people. When black racists with an agenda cherry pick images of Moors, they will always choose the image of a Moor/sub-Saharan negro bastard offspring from the slave trade days. It’s unfortunate, but desperate people will hijack other cultures and claim it as their own. No caucasians
or asians ever claimed to be Greek, Babylonian, Egyptian, or Berber.
Moors are Almoravids. They were berbers from Lemtuna (Sanhaja tribe). Writing such misleading comment wont help you either because we are not black
@@tunis-smugger5977
Yeah, post them sou4ces that you don't have!
@@SteelerzReignSupremeII
Do it yourself. Or do you need yet another government handout?
Lol , The owner of the video has colored the characters in black, and they are Moroccan images from historical sources. Stop lying
😆🤣 you sound mad the thruth don't care about your feelings
@@hanifmartin7505 actually guys you know nothing about this empire but some of it people from the sub saharian were black , are you know how this empire burn ? In which place ? Whats it religion? …
Don't you consider people with even 2% black genes to be black? What's the problem now? Your just so mad that a darker group of people were able to do this. They were black! Accept the truth, they helped to build European society up, and the grudge in you try to tear theirs down. Only missing a horn and a tail, Devils!
@@morosultanate692 start using logic brother ... you're coloring your thinking with emotions
mulattos are derivatives of the black race. just because they dont look like chris brown doesnt mean they dont come from the black race because there were variations of "black" before the mixing began to create subraces. i.e hispanics, north africans, arabs, etc. these black races mixed with neanderthal/denisovan women to create you.
Certainly they had a heavy influence in the Mediterranean world, including southern Spain and southern Italy. Southern France.
Yeah it involved hundreds of years of slavery for Islamic religions.
Sorry to say it, but there's lack of details in the Muslim conquest of Spain in this video. This is obviously biased.
Lies 😂 why u make everyone everything black the moors are morrocans
The Moors were black African!
one doesn’t necessarily exclude the other. there are black moroccans and they’ve always existed.
They sure weren't Arabs! If they were, they wouldn't have been called moors!
the Moors were NOT black SubSaharan africans, they were mostly BERBER; they came from Morroco, Lybia, Tunisia, Algeria....but they had THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of Sub Saharan SLAVES.....SECOND; the Moors DID NOT bring ANYTHING significant to the Iberian Peninsula, especially "Mathematics" and "Astronomy"....what they did bring was SLAVERY....DECAPITATIONS...CASTRATIONS....MISERY...OPRESSION....just like they do TODAY in their own Countries....the MOORS were NOT Sub Saharan africans, STOP playing stupid games and get REAL !!
@@selmaferdjioui5873 ....they were SLAVES !....in REAL LIFE, the Arabs and Muslims ENSLAVED....CASTRATED....DECAPITATED....EXPLORED black africans for THOUSANDS of years before any European set foot in Sub Sahara africa....some 15 MILLION of them to be exact for the duration of 1600 YEARS straight....History is a BITCH, hum?
The moors are the Amazigh people, the indigenous people of North Africa, we have our own gene pool. We ,the North African are NOT from Sub Sahara Africa. During Almohad and Almoravid dynasty, the Moors used the sub Saharan African to fight in Al Andalouse . Read the history before spreading wrong false history. Stop stealing other people's heritage. Ancient Egyptians, the Moors and the Carthaginian are North African. Moors are Moroccan of today, ancient Egyptians are the Egyptians of today, Carthaginian are the Tunisian of today. STOP SPREADING FALSE HISTORY.
What about the Arabs
M 'kay
There is Nothing like African Moors
Moors refer to Muslims in Early middle ages
Christians of Europe call muslims as Moor
Mainly from Al maghreeb and al andulas
Yes this is true African Muslims invade europe
But Moor term is really old not restricted to african more
Infact muslims of phillippines also known as moor
Liars. European Christian referred black Muslims as moors not the other way round
@@stevenwilliams3015
Nop Philippine Muslims are moors Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Muslims are moors any place where Spanish people or Portuguese people met Muslims they called them moors small search in google you will find that
You just want to feel good about being black