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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ABAZA: [QB] Rasol, This reply of yours is quite factual for a change!! Every afrocentrist, would say that the Moors are Black and Black only, because that is how they were described by the Europeans. The Black-a-Moors, many were actually not Black or Negro, but were darker than the White Europeans. This only shedds light on the fact that when a European calls a Group Black, does not mean that they're Black Negros or Black Africans. Rasol, I'm really surprised that this came from you...... Someone recently on this board, called the people of Mauritania (Land of the Moors), Black Native Africans. It it seems that Herodutus had the same myopic vision as the other early Europeans about, when they described certain Africans. Just a little food for thought!! [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] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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