Who were the moors exactly? Why are they portrayed as dark skinned

Moor was the generic term for North African

They were sometimes depicted as black for the "exotic" factor

Same reason black africans stereotyped Arabs as being snow white and light eyed

>>1136075
>playing chess on a wall with magnets
islamic golden age sure was somethin i tell ya what

>>1136075
The original Moors were a North African tribe the Romans encountered in present day Morocco. Since the initial settlers of the Arab conquest of Spain were mostly from North Africa with a small Arab leadership, the name got attributed to them even if some of these troops happened to be from Algiers, Tunisia, Syria, or Yemen. Over time as the conquerors began to assimilate into the Visigothic and Hispano-Roman population of Spain, the word Moor began to branch out to include any Muslim of whatever background found in southern Spain.

Thus you might find a subsaharan black african get called a Moor, but you could also find blonde, blue-eyed europeans also as Moors.

>>1136075
They were Black Africans.
The ultimate historical redpill is that the Berbers are the real "we wuz kangz"ers.

>>1136075
They were Somalis