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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [b]Interesting subject. Moors can be said to be African and Arab, with some Spanish as well. And perhaps the Berber component is the most significant. It isn't an ethnic group per se. The term Moors comes from Greek mauros meaning dark. Not many people know this but the Romans used Moor for a time generically to describe Africans in a way similar to earlier Greek use of Ethiopian. The Romans often used Mouros interchangably with terms like Afer and Ethiopian. The Arabs conquered or converted much of North Africa to Islam around 700 AD. And these African/Arab peoples swept into Spain and conquered much of Southern Europe: [i]During the medieval era, the Arabs/Moors successfully cut the Europeans off from the rest of the world. Moslems literally barricaded the Europeans into their own continent and rarely permitted them to come in or out. Europeans could not travel in Africa or Asia, because the Moslem armies prohibited such mobility. Marco Polo was one of the few Europeans to travel outside of Europe in the late 1200sAD. [/i] - Greg Gordon The Moors who conquered Southern Europe were diverse have been linked to many different African Ethnic Groups including Hausa (Nigeria) and Taureg (Mali). Good topic.[/b][/QUOTE] I agree completely with your analysis. What really fascinates me is how this small group of Yemeni families from a small country managed to conquer all of northern Africa and southern Europe, or -how that 'tiny' English island had empires all over the globe, and -how 'tiny' Japan held sway in eastern Asia, humbling even the mighty nation of China... Is it the old axiom that it's not the quantity but the quality of something that is the more important element?... [This message has been edited by Wally (edited 18 January 2005).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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