[yarddog]

First of all, Moors were not Black despite Shakespeare calling them that. They were mostly Celtic and typically blue eyed but they were dark from living in North Africa. They did not live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

There has been a lot of confusion about Moors even in ancient times. They are more like the Berbers and to a lesser degree, the Phoenicians of ancient Carthage. It might even be possible that a few were mixed with sub-Saharan Africans but that number would probably have been minuscule.

[Ronin]

They was the Moops! Forget what the bubble boy told ya!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Freepers rule!

I learn more from Freep than anywhere else..what a bunch of brilliant ones!

[Nowhere Man]

First of all, Moors were not Black despite Shakespeare calling them that. They were mostly Celtic and typically blue eyed but they were dark from living in North Africa. They did not live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

They sort of reminded me of the Druze in Lebanon, they are of Greek heritage as far back as Alexander the Great.

[PapaBear3625]

First of all, Moors were not Black despite Shakespeare calling them that. They were mostly Celtic and typically blue eyed but they were dark from living in North Africa. They did not live in Sub-Saharan Africa. There has been a lot of confusion about Moors even in ancient times. They are more like the Berbers and to a lesser degree, the Phoenicians of ancient Carthage. It might even be possible that a few were mixed with sub-Saharan Africans but that number would probably have been minuscule.

Since ancient times, the people living on the Mediterranean have more genetic links to each other than they have to people living deeper in their respective continents. Trade, migration, immigration -- there has been a lot of intermixing.

Egyptians migrated to Greece, Greeks migrated to Italy. North Africa was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire, with lots of ships voyaging between the North and South Mediterranean coasts, and having girlfriends in multiple ports.

To a northern European, everybody on the Mediterranean would be labeled a "Moor".