Lotta 'but the Moors!' types too. When the Moors weren't black, they were a mix of Arabs and Berbers (indigenous northwest Africans) who moved to Spain - ie. they may have been deeply tanned, but not black, and would resemble Middle Easterners more than any sub-Saharan black people. Those peoples still have a very low opinion of actual black Africans today, just ask the ones they're selling as slaves in Libya.
And even at their darkest Berbers (specifically Tuaregs, the Berber sub-ethnicity that lives furthest to the south in the Sahara) still look likethis IRL. The ones who lived closer to the Mediterranean coast and thus would have been the most likely to migrate to Spain with the Muslim conquerors look more like this. (She can probably thank the Vandals, a tribe of Germanic barbarians who moved to North Africa & built a kingdom there during the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, for her fair hair)
The Moors are rapists and invaders whom were systematically dismantled piece by piece. If you ever want to weed out the last reminants of people who would dismantle your country, the Inquisition is a good handbook to follow.
I've always been partial to theoriginalMoors myself, the people of Septimius Severus and Saint Augustine and Caecilius of Altava. It's really too bad the Arab Muslims invaded their lands, drove them to extinction and appropriated their name.
Lotta 'but the Moors!' types too. When the Moors weren't black, they were a mix of Arabs and Berbers (indigenous northwest Africans) who moved to Spain - ie. they may have been deeply tanned, but not black, and would resemble Middle Easterners more than any sub-Saharan black people. Those peoples still have a very low opinion of actual black Africans today, just ask the ones they're selling as slaves in Libya.
And even at their darkest Berbers (specifically Tuaregs, the Berber sub-ethnicity that lives furthest to the south in the Sahara) still look like this IRL. The ones who lived closer to the Mediterranean coast and thus would have been the most likely to migrate to Spain with the Muslim conquerors look more like this. (She can probably thank the Vandals, a tribe of Germanic barbarians who moved to North Africa & built a kingdom there during the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, for her fair hair)
The Moors are rapists and invaders whom were systematically dismantled piece by piece. If you ever want to weed out the last reminants of people who would dismantle your country, the Inquisition is a good handbook to follow.
I've always been partial to the original Moors myself, the people of Septimius Severus and Saint Augustine and Caecilius of Altava. It's really too bad the Arab Muslims invaded their lands, drove them to extinction and appropriated their name.