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THE MOORS According to the Oxford Dictionary a Moor were commonly supposed to be mostly black or very swarthy, and hence the word is often used for people from North Africa.At the beginning of the eighth century the Moors migrated to from Africa to Spain, Portugal and France. The description **Moors** has referred to several historic and modern populations of (and earlier non-Muslim) people of descent from, some of whom came to conquer and occupy the for nearly 800 years. Moors were of Arabic descent, they invaded Spain during the late 1400's. During the 11th century, most of the Christians in Europe was uneducated, however the Moors built libraries and taught the Europeans how to make progress in science. Also, the Moors taught the Europeans how to produce the gun powder, however the Europeans took advantage and drove the Moors out of Europe using the gun powder explosives. In Othello the term 'Moor" is used to describe someone who is inhuman and demonic.

William Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African.