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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Faheemdunkers: [qb] [QUOTE]Among Latins and Greeks the word ORIGINALLY referred to BLACK MEN with WOOLLY HAIR[/QUOTE]No retard it didn't. It meant "dark". It only came to be associated with "Blacks" (capital) very late, hence the term "Blackamoor". Orginally it was used only as a term covering the Caucasoid Berbers. Once the Negroids from Sub-Sahara Africa were greater known throughout the Middle Ages, they were called Blackamoors + "Black" to Moor to distinguish between the original Moors (who were never Black). Its got nothing to with woolly hair. Caucasoid Berbers across North Africa have wavy hair. [/qb][/QUOTE]The Moors of Sofala kept these wares and sold them afterwards to the heathen of the Kingdom of Benametapa, who came thither laden with gold which they gave in exchange for the said cloths without weighing it. These Moors collect also great store of ivory which they find hard by Sofala, and this also they sell in the [Indian] Kingdom of Cambay at five or six cruzados the quintal. They also sell some ambergris, which is brought to them from the Hucicas, and is exceeding good. [b]These Moors are black, and some of them tawny; some of them speak Arabic, but the more I part use the language of the country.[/b] They clothe themselves from the waist down with cotton and silk cloths, and other cloths they wear over their shoulders like capes, and turbans on their heads. Some of them wear small caps dyed in grain in chequers and other woolen clothes in many tints, also camlets and other silks. Duarte Barbosa, 1518 [/qb][/QUOTE]And the tawny Moors mentioned here are no doubt the Tuareg. Regardless by this time the word Moor could be used for any Muslim person. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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