THEY BLACKS 1ST COLONIZED EUROPE

Surprisingly it was the blacks called the moors which refers to the "sons of light", "sons of civilization" who first colonized Europe for a period of 400yers and were the architect of European civilization. This story has been hidden for ages.. here are they moors👇

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They moors first arrived in Europe in Andalusia, Spain in 711AD as a group of north Africa Muslims led by the Berber general Tariq Ibn-Ziyad. They moors conquered Spain and Portugal and also compelled some parts of Italy into their subjects with the Alhambra, a Moorish palace and fortress in Granada their headquarters.

The Alhambra
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The size of their impact in Europe was so big and overwhelming. A British historian by name Basil Davidson narrates that there were no place in the 8th century that were more admired to live than the African civilization built in Spain. The territory became a prosperous cultural and economic center where education and the arts and science flourished

They moors territory
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They moors who ruled Spain for 400yrs introduced new scientific techniques to Europe, such as an astrolabe, a device from measuring the position of the stars and planets. Scientific progress in astronomy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, geography and philosophy flourished in Moorish Spain. The heart of Moorish territory in Spain, was the most modern city in Europe. The streets were well-paved with raised side sidewalks for pedestrians, during the night tens miles of street were well illuminated by lambs (this was hundreds of years before there was a paved street in Paris or a street lamp in London)

Moorish architecture
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They moors introduced earliest versions of several instruments including lute or El oud, the guitar or kithara and the lyre. The moors introduced paper to Europe and Arabic numerals which replaced the clumsy Roman system, They moors introduced many new many new crops including the orange, lemon, peach, fig, sugar cane, ginger and pomegranate as well as saffron, cotton, silk and rice which remain some of the Spain main product today

Shakespeare, the renowned writer of novels, write about the moors in his play, Othello corielanus' the moor of Venice.

Shakespeare's play Othello a Moorish general
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They moors ruled and occupied Lisbon (name "lashbuna" by they moors) and the rest of the country until well into the twelfth century, they were finally defeated and driven out by the forces of king Alfonso Henriques. The scene of this battle was the castelo de sao judge or the "castle of st. George"