African History
How Ancient AFRICAN Moors Brought Civilization to EUROPE.
The Moors were a diverse group of people from North Africa who, during the medieval
period, played a significant role in the history of the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain
and Portugal), as well as parts of Italy, Sicily, and Malta. They were known for their military
prowess, and established a powerful empire that lasted for several centuries. They also
made significant contributions to art, architecture, science, and literature. In this video,
we’ll explore the history and legacy of the Moors in Africa, and discuss their impact on the
region and the world.
on April 9, 1609,King Phillip III of Spain signed an order, which was one of the earliest
examples of ethnic cleansing. At the height of the Spanish inquisition, King Phillip III
ordered the expulsion of 300,000 Muslim Moriscos, which initiated one of the most brutal
and tragic episodes in the history of Spain.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, it was ancient Africans that brought civilization to Spain
and large parts of Europe and not the other way around. The first civilization of Europe was
established on the Greek island of Crete in 1700 BC and the Greeks were primarily civilized
by the Black Africans of the Nile Valley. The Greeks then passed on this acquired culture to
the Romans who ultimately lost it; thus, initiating the Dark Ages that lasted for five
centuries. Civilization was once again reintroduced to Europe when another group of Black
Africans, The Moors, brought the Dark Ages to an end.
When history is taught in the West, the period called the “Middle Ages” is generally referred
to as the “Dark Ages,” and depicted as the period during which civilization in general,
including the arts and sciences, laid somewhat idle. This was certainly true for Europeans,
but not for Africans.
Renowned historian, Cheikh Anta Diop, explains how during the Middle Ages, the great
empires of the world were Black empires, and the educational and cultural centers of the
world were predominately African.
After the collapse of the Roman Empire multitudes of white warring tribes from the
Caucasus were pushed into Western Europe by the invading Huns. The Moors invaded
Spanish shores in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes from
the Caucus. The Moors eventually ruled over Spain, Portugal, North Africa and southern
France for over 700 years.
Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical
record, recent archaeology and scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances
in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages
and into the Renaissance.
One the most famous British historians Basil Davidson, noted that during the eighth century
there was no land “more admired by its neighbours, or more comfortable to live in, than a
rich African civilization which took shape in Spain”.
The Moors were unquestionably Black and the 16th century English playwright William
Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African.
Education was universal in Muslim Spain, while in Christian Europe, 99 percent of the
population was illiterate, and even kings could neither read nor write. The Moors boasted a
remarkably high literacy rate for a pre-modern society. During an era when Europe had only
two universities, the Moors had seventeen. The founders of Oxford University were inspired
to form the institution after visiting universities in Spain. According to the United Nations’
Education body, the oldest university operating in the world today, is the University of
Al-Karaouine of Morocco founded during the height of the Moorish Empire in 859 A.D. by a
Black woman named Fatima al-Fihri.
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1. Massey, Gerald. (1883). The Natural Genesis: Second Part of a Book of the Beginnings, Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origins of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace, Volume Two. https://amzn.to/4b51Yrf
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@laurajaneluvsbeauty9596
July 12, 2023 at 9:16 pm
Europeans were never black, black people were never in Europe. If ancient Africans brought civilization, then why was Africa still in the Stone Age when Europeans arrived? This is Afrocentric revisionist history bull shit
@BigP.Energy
July 14, 2023 at 3:04 am
If this is true why are none of them living like this in Africa anymore?
@shepherdsson
July 14, 2023 at 8:23 am
It took the moods 80 years to invade a uncivilized land?
@josequintero4770
July 17, 2023 at 10:31 pm
It was Islamic travlers brought civil ways of life to africa.
@starchildofthe90s7
August 2, 2023 at 11:31 am
Very great cideo keep them coming make sure to share these with your kids dont let the U.S or whytes brainwash them blk people
@s7777777d
August 5, 2023 at 8:11 pm
Yeah sure .. let’s ignore the role of islamic golden age in baghdad and claims it to the moors slaves
@T.MBey-nc2vo
August 10, 2023 at 1:45 pm
MOORS PEOPLE WITH OLIVE SKIN COMPLEXION ARE NOT BLACK. BLACK IS A COLOUR AND NOT A HUMAN BEING. HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT COLOURS, PAINT OR CRAYONS. THE ETYMON OF THE WORD BLACK IS PALE NOT PEOPLE WITH DARK/ OLIVE SKIN COMPLEXION. BLACK IS AN ADJECTIVE AND NOT A PROPER NOUN. PEOPLE CAN ONLY BE NOUNS NOT ADJECTIVES. SEE THIRD GRADE ENGLISH GRAMMAR PARTS OF SPEECH FOR REFERENCE. BLACK IN LAW MEANS CIVILITER MORTUUS. MEANING TO BE DEAD IN THE EYES OF LAW. KEEP PLAYING THE BLACK GAME AND YOU WILL RECEIVE THE BLACK PRIZE.
@brixcosmo6849
August 10, 2023 at 8:20 pm
Ahahahah 😂 This Propaganda is getting funnier by the day. On the line of North Korea where Citizens are brainwashed into believing that Kim Jong Un is God and invented Mathematics 😂
@brixcosmo6849
August 10, 2023 at 8:46 pm
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, Almoravids, Almohads and Nasrids were involved. By 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 and the Iberian Peninsula. Amazighs (Berber) armies from North Africa served the Arabs just the way they served the Phoenicians-Carthaginians originally from Levante (Lebanon in their case) or the Romans when Romans defeated the Phoenician-Carthaginian Empire in 146BC and established their Roman Provinces in Mauritanea Tingitana (Nowadays North Morocco and Argelia) and in Carthage (Tunisia). Phoenicians 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 since ever. And were influenced by Greeks, Tartessians, Phoenicians, etc much before the Ummayad Caliphate's conquest of Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). Phoenicians (Carthaginian Empire) spread all around the Mediterranean Sea coming from Levante (Lebanon, Syria) where they emerged in 3000BC. The fact that they used berber cavalry/armies in the Maghreb Region 'cause they set the Capital of their Carthaginian Empire in Carthage built in 900BC, doesn't make them African. Obviously there were Africans in the Phoenicians-Carthaginian Empire's society. As there was in many Kingdoms/Empires whose origins are not 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 Arab Sultans of Mecca and Cairo. 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! Portugal's History is 880yo, American Kangz! Your History is 247yo! You should embrace it and be proud of it instead of trying to steal other Countries History!
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@AmeerMuawiyahAS
August 11, 2023 at 1:42 am
I dont remember a black emir in Spain nor a scientist so stop this bullshit moors were not black
@NaderAbedrabbojanineh-nh1kr
August 15, 2023 at 6:02 am
Not only The African Moors …but first where The Arabs and Then were The berber and later The Moors … I don't Like how you Manipulate History The Murabeteen … Who Were Moors ( berber and Afrcians ) The last Muslim Kingdom but not The First …
@SuperSlik50
August 15, 2023 at 6:15 am
Lol
@benamar.x8990
August 18, 2023 at 6:22 pm
they brought s ( h ) ( I) t .in there. ! they were living under the bush .Don't mistake North Africans with black Africans.
Why they didn't bring civilization to their black Africa proper ?
@benamar.x8990
August 18, 2023 at 6:43 pm
are you out of your mind ? The Moors didn't come from Senegal or any subsaharan country , they were from North Africa, North Africa isn't black land , it's the land of Arabs and Berbers.
@user-bb4xr6so3h
August 31, 2023 at 1:37 am
Some people deny the fact that the African Moors Brought Civilization to Europe. Because they're racist.
@johnelliott3617
September 1, 2023 at 12:53 pm
If so, why is Africa, so uncivilized now?
@Politik_Wirtschaft_Extratalk
October 9, 2023 at 12:31 am
how much do you want to be relevant in history? Blacks: if i need to lie its ok
@elperrodelautumo7511
November 12, 2023 at 4:39 am
Rome never perverted Egypt into another Roman province. Instead they allow Egypt to be a Roman province with a cultural autonomy and cultural preservation. Kept some knowledge in their library. From both Alexandria and Rome.
@aethelwulf7819
December 1, 2023 at 3:19 am
😆Blacks are a lost species. They have no history, heritage or culture – hence the pathetic projection, insecurities and the constant need to fabricate history to cope with the aforementioned. It's no wonder every other race treats their wretched species as a doormat.
@KemetQueen999
December 3, 2023 at 10:16 am
We waz Tamahu 🐒 neanderthals in a cave. Peace to all the real gods with 9 Ankh Anunnaki DNA.
@Sayli2bxl
January 5, 2024 at 7:49 am
The name "Africa" is from Berber. lol (It's harsh to realize it)
Wakanda is more credible If you want to speak about black history. Have fun ! ✌
@simplelogic9090
February 4, 2024 at 12:39 pm
KANGZZ
@gralfwiggum3818
February 11, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Most moors were North African but later depictions of them the Spanish portrayed them as black to distinguish them selfs further from them since North Africans and Iberian Europeans looked to similar
@elfish9788
February 22, 2024 at 1:36 pm
Yeah they also brought brought black slaves through the Sahara desert to build up Spain