What do you think/know about the history of maghreb? Carthage,

Carthage was a fascinating counter-pole of Rome

After destruction of this city Maghreb became a periphery

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>>277291
Pretty sure that the moorish empire were as strong and influent as Carthage, if not more.

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My favorite dynasty, the Almohads.

>>277302
I'm extremely dubious they controlled anything that far south.

>>277320
The Almoravid are a saharian dynasty and they attacked Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Mali etc.

They're one of the main reason west africa is muslim IIRC.

>>277302
>>277319
Always loved reading about Berbers and Moors. Was pretty fascinating, they remind me of the Arabic/North African version of the Normans, going into for off regions and making them their own.

>>277348
Normans and Maghrebians were very good ennemies, the Normands fought them in Sicily and in North africa.

They even founded a kingdom in Africa that lasted few years!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Africa

>>277320
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tondibi

Moroccans conquered the songhai empire and took important cities like Timbuktu and Gao but eventually had to leave because controlling territory over the sahara was a logistical nightmare

>>277367
You're in the wrong timelaps buddy, the Almoravid conquest of central/west Africa is 500 years before this events.

A lot of things changed between this periods.

I keep forgetting who was more extreme, Almoravids or Almohads

>>277271
Ruined by Islam

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http://everything.explained.today/Roman-Moorish_kingdoms/

One day King Sebastian will return from the Moroccan fields to restablish the Fifth Portuguese Empire.

It is known.

>>277882
Found the butthurt pagan

>>277320
They started that far south.

>>277848
Both were integrist religious groups. When the almoravids grew decadent, the new extremists Almohads replaced them by force.