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Bookmark or Share- Is the image of North Africa as a "lost" ancient bread basket a myth ...North Africa crop production and exports only recently declined. Algeria was France's bread basket too. Something happened between Independence and the present that hurt agricultural production that wasn't weather related or the depletion of the soil, the culture and demographics of the resident land owning farming class changed.
- Bláland – Blámenn | History Forum'Bláland' is a term used by Viking Age Scandinavians to describe North Africa. Moors from North Africa and Spain, who were taken prisoner during Viking raids in the Mediterranean (859-62) and who finished up on the Dublin slave market were described as 'blue men' (Norse: blámenn, Irish: fir gorm).
- What Are The Effects of A Sahara Which Stays Green?One factor influencing the drying up on North Africa was latitude so if North Africa stays green the Middle East would likely stay green, too. So would northern Mexico and the US southwest. And there might be a mirror effect in the southern hemisphere so the Australian Outback, the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa and the Atacama Desert of ...
- Black Africans in North Africa (12th-16th century)This is still an over simplification and there will be people that look different in every region. But it is a better way of looking at people in North Africa than just throwing everyone in one group. North Africa is between Europe, West Asia and Sub Saharan Africa it's only natural the region would be diverse.
- The black civilisational contribution to North Africa, the Almovarid ...North Africa was fertile ground for religious movements for a long time with Kairouan being one of the most important scholarly cities of the Muslim world for a period and the Atlas mountain valleys being able to hide groups of religious dissadents who could also fade away down into the Anti-Atlas or deserts to the south and east.
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