Berbers: Ancient Origins of North African Civilization

[@yassine0045]

I am a proud Amazigh, I got goosebumbs as I was watching the legacy of my ancestors... astonishing! Those details are only to read in history books. Great work!

[@squallleonhartffx]

Pan-arabism hate our legacy our culture and they are spending millions of dollars to fake the history and give them an arab origin lol

[@waydros1304]

Same brother

[@AABb-hs9jt]

للمعلومة: الجزائر دولة مسلمة عربية العرب 84٪، والبربر 16٪(البربر هم كذلك عرب عاربة وحروفهم هي احدى تطورات اللغة العربية القديمة ) في الاخير اقول الحمد لله على نعمه الاسلام الذي جعلنا امة واحدة ☝

[@ithartheghost]

@@AABb-hs9jt في شمال افريقيا الكل بعد الاحصائيات موحود كان 2% عرب. ولغتنا اصل ولم تتكور من حتى لغة، موجود حفريات ورسوم كدليل. العرب احتلوا شمال افريقيا ونهبوا خيراتنا ودمروا تاريخنا

[@bidav2114]

@@ithartheghost tell them brother. Tell them

[@Asgard2208]

I worked in both Algeria and Libya, and can say that I found the Amazigh as easy going, tolerant, wonderful people, and I think this video does them great justice. Thank you K&G.

[@massinissaziriamazigh8122]

Thanks 👍🇩🇿

[@A.Severan]

Thanks, I appreciate your words! 🇱🇾

[@massinissaziriamazigh8122]

@Darkseid Hahaha🤣 I remember you, you have another account , you always repeat the same myths, when I gave you a history lesson a few days ago, you ran away and you deleted your comments

[@massinissaziriamazigh8122]

@Darkseid And you were claiming that you are a kabyle, but I asked you a question in the kabyle dialect, and you did not understand my question, because you are not a kabyle

[@massinissaziriamazigh8122]

@Darkseid Read history , the myths of Arabism created by British and French colonialism, and the Arab world was Napoleon's dream. If you love Arabs go to Saudi Arabia and you will see how they treat you.

[@HoH]

The editor really outdid himself with this one. Fantastic work!

[@timwalsh8404]

Very nicely done

[@mbarnabeus]

But he got it wrong again vis à vis religion: for example when he portrayed the khawarej he said they based their belief on this hadith "Yahya bin Abu Muta' said: I heard 'Irbad bin Sariyah say: 'One day, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood up among us and delivered a deeply moving speech to us that melted our hearts and caused our eyes to overflow with tears. It was said to him: 'O Messenger of Allah, you have delivered a speech of farewell, so enjoin something upon us.' He said: 'I urge you to fear Allah, and to listen and obey, even if (your leader) is an Abyssinian slave. After I am gone, you will see great conflict. I urge you to adhere to my Sunnah and the path of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, and cling stubbornly to it. And beware of newly-invented matters, for every innovation is a going astray.'" this hadith goes utterly against the khawarej & is one of the main islamic principles instructing muslims to refrain from bloody rebellions as much as possible like dictated by other hadiths such as the one prophecysing the coming of evil leaders ruling the muslims yet the prophet peace be upon Him instructed us not to rebel except we see public open disbelief. Here is an other hadith prophecysing about the khawarej " Narrated Abu Sa`id: `Ali sent a piece of gold to the Prophet who distributed it among four persons: Al-Aqra' bin H`Abis Al-Hanzali from the tribe of Mujashi, 'Uyaina bin Badr Al-Fazari, Zaid at-Ta'i who belonged to (the tribe of) Bani Nahban, and 'Alqama bin Ulatha Al-`Amir who belonged to (the tribe of) Bani Kilab. So the Quraish and the Ansar became angry and said, "He (i.e. the Prophet, ) gives the chief of Najd and does not give us." The Prophet said, "I give them) so as to attract their hearts (to Islam)." Then a man with sunken eyes, prominent checks, a raised forehead, a thick beard and a shaven head, came (in front of the Prophet ) and said, "Be afraid of Allah, O Muhammad!" The Prophet ' said "Who would obey Allah if I disobeyed Him? (Is it fair that) Allah has trusted all the people of the earth to me while, you do not trust me?" Somebody who, I think was Khalid bin Al-Walid, requested the Prophet to let him chop that man's head off, but he prevented him. When the man left, the Prophet said, "Among the off-spring of this man will be some who will recite the Qur'an but the Qur'an will not reach beyond their throats (i.e. they will recite like parrots and will not understand it nor act on it), and they will renegade from the religion as an arrow goes through the game's body. They will kill the Muslims but will not disturb the idolaters. If I should live up to their time' I will kill them as the people of 'Ad were killed (i.e. I will kill all of them)." Sahih al-Bukhari 3344

[@genericuser-1]

@@parasf2984 Thus causing more Muslim blood to be spilt.

[@ValensBellator]

I gotta say it’s so cool how in the KZbin comments you see people from every region discussed these days. It demonstrates how much this stuff still matters and how important it is to reflect on everyone’s history rather than only focusing on a more limited scope.

[@MrLoobu]

Its only in the last decade or 2 that people in every part of the planet can learn and know the entirety of world history. We must learn about each other quickly

[@MrLoobu]

@Dark Fire history has no such safe space, neither should your youtube comments.

[@kored8688]

@@MrLoobu " neither should your youtube comments." Why not?

[@YeeeeGreg]

Well said👌🏼

[@intboom]

@@kored8688 In my opinion it's because censorship is the first step to genocide. It starts with supposedly reasonable requests for politeness and respect, and it ends in "re education" camps. Free the Uyghurs and Free Hong Kong, by the way.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Don't forget to like the video, if you liked it. :-)

[@arzusanfo8063]

King and generals i am a muslim from africa keep on going in african history kepp the great work

[@ajithsidhu7183]

Please do on on iberian and why were they good warriors

[@Omegaeon1]

Zirids and Bologhine Ibn Ziri, can"t wait :) also their kingdom in Granada too

[@ritabanerjee7597]

Shivaji tactics pls 🇮🇳

[@ajithsidhu7183]

@@ritabanerjee7597 sikh empire

[@KilllerWhale]

I'm Moroccan myself, with Zenata origins. And a lot of the stuff mentioned in this video are new to me. The real history of Morocco pre-Islamic conquests is obscure to a lot of us and not much attention is given to it in the media. It took a KZbin channel to enlighten a lot of us about our real history.

[@user-jq4hi8te3j]

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 Can you give some examples?

[@naz3858]

@Abdulgani Ali thank you for tellin him what ancestory he has, you would probably know better, right?

[@baam8014]

@Abdulgani Ali He could probably tell you his tribe, sub tribe and clan, name a few of his ancestors and that of his neighbours that are part of his tribe. He speaks a language that is nowhere spoken in the middle East. So what's up with you talking uneducated. Are you a we wuzz and shiiet?

[@thegoat2958]

Pre islamic history doesn't matter

[@franceallemagne3491]

@@thegoat2958 It matters and will always matter

[@JAGzilla-ur3lh]

Really impressive stuff. These people were major players in Mediterranean history, and they never seem to warrant more than a passing mention in documentaries about Rome or Carthage or Egypt. You'd hardly know they exist. Virtually everything here was new info to me, and I'll definitely watch the next video in the series!

[@subutaynoyan5372]

It's caused a bit because for a good portion of the more recent times, they were under the yoke of more known empires.

[@bobbatons1720]

@@jeffbillings-el6110 There never was any need to overshadow non-European history. Only people who don't need history says this. For example, the Rennasaince and how it was influenced by islamic scholars, you can read it in European history books of thw 19th century, even in the times of high colonialism. In the meantime, the history of Amazigh people, is being oppresed by the Arabs in their countries!! But still, it's Europeans fault...

[@sophia-yg7bf]

Thank you ! Glad our history is gaining attraction !

[@M3xClan]

We maghreban are all amazigh and we know it and we speak amazigh et we know our history and states who command maghreb History cant delete us and its enough for us . Latin disapear ancient greek disapear but amazigh language and calendar are already there and that fact is true whitout state power point. Just tribal cultural protection mentality

[@mlamazigh5398]

​@@subutaynoyan5372 no, because the concept of recording and spreading one history was view as a weak minded desillusion. As if you are strong people you should survive to tell the tales. + French Propaganda

[@yoban360]

This Native American wishes all my Amazigh people, specially my Moroccans a good luck playing France today!!

[@saidbenlahcen931]

اشك في صانع المحتوى أن يكون محايدا وليس لاول مرة ارى فيديو مثل هذا يتحدث عن تاريخ سكان الامازيغ ليعطي لخريطة الجزائر قيمة أكبر من حجمها في ما سبق علما أن هذا الحجم لم يكن إلا بعد الاستعمار الفرنسي ولكم ان تقارنو هذه الخريطة بخريطة المنطقة 1800 ليس كل من يصنع فيديو باللغة الانجليزية موثوق به الثقة في الوثيقة والسلام .الخريطة الحقيقية في كتب التاريخ وليس في افواه الكذابين للتأكد اكتب خريطة شمال افزيقيا في القرن ١٨ لترى حجم الجزائر التي لم تكن ظاهرة اصلا لتعلموا الغاية من هذا الفيديو

[@jimr9499]

بالكاد يتعلق الفيديو بالجزائر على وجه التحديد. لا تحتاج إلى البحث عن الخطأ أو إدراك الظلم في كل ما تراه.

[@joseiji8417]

@@saidbenlahcen931 الجزائر لم يكن لها وجود صديقي هاد الناس غير كتخرف ههههه

[@billeltot]

@@joseiji8417 ملا نوميديا ختك لي دارتها فدزاير .. ؟

[@joseiji8417]

@@billeltot دارتها يماك يا الملقط، أنتم صناعة فرنسية وفقط

[@mohegiziano2824]

Greetings from an egyptian 🇪🇬 to our amazigh fellows inside egypt and all along the coast untill Morocco including Libya, Tunisia and Algeria not to forget Mauritania as well 🇪🇬🇱🇾🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳🇲🇷

[@jamgee3069]

You are an imposter. You all are Arabs not a real egyptian. But whatever... Colonialism at its best.

[@hinkich1]

@@jamgee3069 historically , there was never a mass immigration to Egypt, so the egyptian population today is a great exemple of how the ancient egyptian society looked like

[@jamgee3069]

@@hinkich1 bullshit! There was a mass migration! The greeks Palestinians Hebrews and persians all migrated to Egypt

[@plataoplomo9096]

@@jamgee3069 greeks ruled Egypt, romans, then perisians, then Arabs, then british( they didn’t mix with ppl), then its free / on its own

[@amrovine4029]

@@jamgee3069 Ah an Afrocentrist we wuzzer ,thank God the Sahara separated us from the rest of y'all

[@sa7ar729]

As an Arab , we never learned anything about the natives of North Africa in schools ( most of the history was about the Islamic empire and the good parts only ), i just assumed we’re all Arabs with different accents. Such rich and powerful history deserves to be proud of and I can’t wait to visit all the Maghreb countries. Love from Palestine

[@shileyeaaight4744]

@Fedor Silva you can't call it bs neither fully true, there's always that guy who tells the story from his side and it goes like that, os yea there's some true and theres some bs right here

[@shileyeaaight4744]

@Fedor Silva i agree

[@mr.riffian9507]

Well, logically, were there "Arabic" dialects in North Africa before the spread of Islam,? Then did they not teach you about the wars between Muslims and Amazigh? Did they not teach you that those who brought down the Umayyad Empire were the Amazigh? I don't know what history you learn in school

[@mr.riffian9507]

So, you believe that North africans AMAZIGH and Egyptians, Arabians, Sudanese and lebanese are same race/ people?

[@mr.riffian9507]

You claim that you are a Palestinian Arab, can you prove that? I mean if you are Then you are not a native palestinian, the Arabs are from the Arabian Peninsula, which means that your ancestors moved to Palestine during the Islamic invasion, Through my study of history, I know that many group of peoples/ethnics lived in Palestine: Canaanites, Hebrews, Aramic Phoenicians, Assyrians, even Romans and Egyptians.. So how do you want to attribute Palestine to your Arabness only? Where did those indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine for thousands of years go? Did they become extinct? I mean in your history books which based on an Arabizm and Islamizm idiologie, they do not even teach you the true history of Palestine .

[@antidweller6373]

I like those "origin" videos you make: berbers, huns, vandals, scythians, celts,....So well researched and presented.

[@Idleo]

Egyptians 🤔

[@gillettematch3188]

QUID?...dic iterum.

[@joer8954]

The Scythians are so interesting.

[@LDW12887]

They make up half of the """"history"""" thats how you get 20 min video on people that havent left any remains after themselves

[@joshuapilling3641]

@@LDW12887 I'd love to see your qualifications

[@imadabbadi9665]

Amazigh from Morocco here : this segment was well done, and I even learned a few things I didn't know. GReat job !

[@kingmaverick3140]

Only KINGS & GENERALS can narrate the entire history in just 20 minutes !

[@kingmaverick3140]

@@magnacarta9364 Seems interesting! Where are you from ? You can meet me on Instagram @ King._.Maverick

[@SAMAYDOSTDAR]

My history teacher can do it in a month

[@kingmaverick3140]

@@SAMAYDOSTDAR That would be boring cause there won’t be any visual presentations ! 20 minutes vs 30 days You decide...

[@ghostd69]

Since he was talking about the berber revolt you should countine the event of what happened to the khwareji at the end..the umayyad general Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi ended the berber revolt after they defeat them in battle al qren and chlef al esnam resulted that most of khwarjei army was killed around 120k..the even was mentioned and witnessed by north african and berber historian for such as ibn raqeq al koroani and ibn khaldoun and ibn azari rashuidn their influence to this region doesn't counted since they stopped of their expasnion after death of uthman and first fitna has occrued North africa was sucessfully conquered completely within afew by uqba ibn nafiq as begining conquest of al maghreb started with umayyad..uqba got killed due to ambush that was set up by aksel along with berber and roman Later the umayyad had to temporarily abandon of their province in africa and others region due to the due to the conflicts and cilvil wars and the second fitna that lasted for 30 years..they were dealing with others empires and banditers and khwarjei in different area and region not just with the berber..caliph of umayyad abd al malak managed to extinguished the strife and conflicts along with his strong army and general..extend and recovered their influence and expansion to the new and their abandoned region

[@battlez9577]

Yes because they completely miss or over simplify stuff, like the jugurthine war

[@anj5901]

I am mixed Moroccan and Libyan and this video makes me proud of our Maghrebien history and culture 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇱🇾🇱🇾🇱🇾🇱🇾🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳

[@arkjedrzejewsky4990]

great Moroccan history,indeed

[@jubaii4142]

Africa belongs to the Africans, not to Arab intruders, and their remnants of Arabization ♓🇹🇳♓🇩🇿♓🇱🇾♓🇲🇦

[@maxstorm3041]

@@jubaii4142 Racist much? Imagine someone said Europe belong to Europeans so all the North Africans and blacks living there are forced to leave even if they were born there. Honestly what do you benefit from this kind of hatred. You should learn to live peacefully and coexist, that is the only solution. Do you think the Arabs who have lived in Morocco for over a thousand years are just going to pack their bags and go?

[@jubaii4142]

@@maxstorm3041 A saying said by the Berber king of Jugurtha, meaning the land of the Berbers

[@ab.aaaaab]

@@jubaii4142 You would have been a christian or a jew if the arabs didn't invade. Your comment doesn't even make sense

[@KirihitoSan]

Amazigh are a fascinating people. I was lucky to spend two weeks in Morocco and will definitely return, to see more of Atlas Mountains in particular

[@DSweashox]

Привет Кирилл, я бербер из северного марокко (Риф) добро пожаловать к нам. Я жил в украине 6 лет.

[@yassine9826]

Welcome whenever you like !

[@thewariscomingtoatownneary7572]

Islam is the truth

[@lilyoyo77]

Amazigh aren't only in morocco, you should visit atunisia and Algeria

[@KirihitoSan]

@@lilyoyo77 I defo want to visit, Tunisia for sure

[@michaelmcdonagh5104]

Amazing. I have quite a few Berber friends here in San Francisco who are from Algeria and Morocco, and one of them gave me a Tuareg medallion, which I treasure.

[@darrenwalley91]

I've never heard of a Tuareg Medallion, I have to look them up. 🤔 Thank you for this information & have a pleasant day/night.🌙 🙏

[@michaelmcdonagh5104]

It's actually a necklace, not a medallion, given me by one of my Algerian friends here in San Francisco. Searching "Tuareg" will give you samples of their beautiful jewelry. The Tuareg are Berbers and are considered to be the oldest civilization in the Mahgreb -- north Africa -- and they're largeliy in the Sahara. Their music is also beautiful.

[@bellalana9087]

The touareg are the sons of queen tinhinane she was amazigh princesse run away from her father to the deseret of Algeria her sun named hoggar her grave was discovered by a French historical you can Google it and you are more welcomed to visit Algeria ❤️🇩🇿. Peace

[@mingyue1586]

Algerian Tuareg Jewelries and culture are so beautiful 😍 Ask your friend about Sifar the mysterious city and search for its rock arts , you would love to visit it.

[@Snowfox23]

@@michaelmcdonagh5104all Berbers and North Africans are the oldest! They are the oldest on the continent as black are much younger and were brought to the north as slaves since ancient Egypt times

[@EliaFlowers]

As an Amazigh, you have no idea how much I’ve been waiting for this

[@jorgeh.r9879]

What Berber ethnic group are you part of?

[@TheWillofD7978]

@@jorgeh.r9879 all amazighs are one ethnic group, we are one family, maybe you mean which amazigh language do you speak.

[@EliaFlowers]

@@jorgeh.r9879 I’m from the Soussi sub-ethnic group, southern Morocco

[@bobbyjones8091]

I have many morrocan friends and ive also been waiting for such video.

[@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404]

Same

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful" - Fatima Mernissi (Morroccan writer)

[@malchir4036]

"That's just an ad hominem though" - Anyone with a brain

[@lalc2875]

That's quite pessimistic

[@kingmaverick3140]

Are you Moroccan ?

[@malchir4036]

@@jawharz9759 And that's a red herring because nobody is disputing that. But what evidence do you have that pessimism is prevalent only in the powerful? Exactly, none. It's an ad hom, likely made by a post-modernist enamored by talking rather than thinking.

[@mohbou3924]

She is also the writer of a very interesting history book " the forgotten quenes of Islam "

[@alexanderlehigh]

I actually have a professor who is ethnically Amazigh, he always talks of Moroccan and Amazigh culture, and there is even a plan to take a study abroad trip to the Maghreb, so this video is excellent in context!

[@amiratan7067]

That's so cool

[@bouama9328]

90% of magrebians are ethnically amazigh

[@adfsdasd4362]

Did you go?

[@fou_fou]

But this history is not right

[@أمازيغي-وأفتخر]

المغرب الخراوي المغرب ليس عربيا

[@Idontknow-to7yr]

I am Algerian and I am so proud of my ancestors ❤️🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿 Actually I live in Constantine the capital city of the Berber kingdom Numidia its name was CIRTA. From my home I can see the tomb where the founder of the kingdom is buried. Unfortunately there are some north Africans who think the history of the region starts with the arrival of Arabs.

[@Ra0xf]

Agree, and I think that it was on purpose to keep us in the dark of our proud heritage.

[@moroccanplug3500]

We must be brothers us moroccan and algerian 🤔

[@otomanoyut9791]

Arabs are part of us

[@targeteverywhere]

@@moroccanplug3500 We are, and politics will not separate us

[@ericklynch6873]

I would love to visit there

[@khaledyazza6381]

as a berber we used to hear those wars stories from our grandfathers . amazing stories about the weapons they used to have . mountains battles strategies and more

[@o6301]

Yes but those wars were against the Spanish ( which we won at first )

[@sagapoetic8990]

@@o6301 Also too fighting the French and the fascists when they rolled through North Africa if Khaled means his grandparents' and their generation's firsthand experiences

[@o6301]

@Drake Frazer Says who ?

[@malikgrabsia2427]

das liegt an wenig intresse!!!

[@gogolghosh5426]

Wait berbers still exist?

[@MG-vl4to]

"Al-Matghari was according to tradition, a lowly watercarrier." THE WATERBOY

[@swordsmen8856]

Now he had High quality H2O

[@thegameshunger2328]

LOOL

[@jennypoussin3866]

Waterboy? Al Adam Sandler? 🤣

[@josephphoenix1376]

So.....Waa GunghaDin!🤔

[@ghostd69]

Since he was talking about the berber revolt he should as well countine the event of what happened to the khwareji at the end..the umayyad general Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi ended the berber revolt after they defeat them in battle al qren and chlef al esnam resulted that most of khwarjei army was killed around 120k..the even was mentioned and witnessed by north african and berber historian for such as ibn raqeq al koroani and ibn khaldoun and ibn azari rashuidn their influence to this region doesn't counted since they stopped of their expasnion after death of uthman and first fitna has occrued North africa was sucessfully conquered completely within afew by uqba ibn nafiq as begining conquest of al maghreb started with umayyad..uqba got killed due to ambush that was set up by aksel along with berber and roman Later the umayyad had to temporarily abandon of their province in africa and others region due to the due to the conflicts and cilvil wars and the second fitna that lasted for 30 years..they were dealing with others empires and banditers and khwarjei in different area and region not just with the berber..caliph of umayyad abd al malak managed to extinguished the strife and conflicts along with his strong army and general..extend and recovered their influence and expansion to the new and their abandoned region

[@pedrosabino8751]

Thanks, berbers, for the couscous, we from northeastern Brazil love it dish, the difference is that we use cornmeal instead of wheat

[@amnaykan159]

Can you show some video how you do it ?

[@islo3941]

Love your comment :) Show us how you Brazil the couscous! I'm sure it's great :)

[@jessj7516]

@Antoine Shelby Yes they have it for a couple of centuries now. It's also a traditional meal for Brazilians. As a Moroccan i was also surprised when i found out about this lol.

[@loundja7098]

@Richard Joniec north African are not Arab ; you did not understand the whole point

[@meriemz26]

@Richard Joniec north africans are not middle easterns, u skipped many geography sessions

[@CherifetEmilie]

Greetings to all of my Amazigh brothers 🇩🇿🇲🇦🇹🇳🇱🇾🇲🇷♓❤

[@sadeksama5057]

Tunisia is not a berbee country Keep us away from your bullshit

[@afefbenhafsia9808]

Fck no we are arabs

[@BR-tk4hv]

ⴰⵢⵓⵣ ⵏⴽ ⴰ ⴳⵎⴰ❤️

[@afefbenhafsia9808]

@@b23456 here is what you westerners don t get when you talk about amazigh NO ONE SPEAKS NATIVE NO ONE EVERYONE SPEAKS ARABIC OUR CULTURE IS ARABIC OUR LANGUAGE IS ARABIC Tbh I Don't what the hell that guy wrote there

[@thealgerianshow]

@@afefbenhafsia9808 yes I'm an arab not amazigh

[@moustoriffi5173]

I am purely amazigh from the Rif and thank you for the quality and the accurency of your work. We love our culture and thank you again to share it to others

[@xernobell7845]

What about that he didn't include the westren sahara with morocco

[@ColonelFluffles]

@@xernobell7845 he is Riffian, he probably couldn't care less lol

[@zakariamimouni279]

@@ColonelFluffles it doesn't matter that much tbh, Moroccan are used to seeing the map with that imaginary border, but they know it's not true because they can go to Western Sahara whenever they want

[@Jewzi123]

The video contains mistakes , the Maghreb was under Byzantine rule before the Ummaymyed conquest and there was a Berber rebellion against the Byzantines and Christianity ( Byzantines forced all of their subjects including Jews in North Africa to convert to Christianity and prosecuted the Berbers with the support of St Augustin of hippo who supported the Byzantines against the berbers ) caliphate Omar refused any expansion into the Maghreb despite Berber tribesmen asking his aid against the Byzantines , caliphate Omar believed that the Maghreb was divided by competing tribes and the caliphate was to large to be responsible to the people in the current caliphate to make any additional expansion arguing as he famously side if a dogs dies out of hunger it would be my responsibility as a caliphate thus I can’t expand into new territory , but after the passing of the Rashidun Caliphs , power shifted to the Ummaymyed and the Byzantines who controlled Tunisia attacked Egypt from their base in Tunisia , the Ummaymyed in response decided to deny the Byzantines a safe haven in Maghreb and Iberia , believing it was strategically necessary for the security of the Ummaymyed caliphate state to deny the Byzantines any presence in the Maghreb and Iberia , the Ummaymyed wanted to be the new Roman Empire they also relied on Arab nationalism instead of Islam to insure the loyalty of Arab tribes ( which ironically lead to the overthrow of the Ummaymyed in Syria and accusing them of betraying the spirit of Islam ) the Ummaymyed famously coined the term that Yemen is the origin of Arabs to win over the support of Yemeni fighters .

[@Danheron2]

I’ve done a lot research on the rif war, which is often forgotten but i think is one of the underrated gorilla campaigns in history, your Tiny population fought Spain to a standstill, brutally defeating and humiliating them multiple times and had some impressive victories against the French, one French soldier was quoted in saying “incredible men these Rifianians, they do not know the meaning of fear, one will attack an entire company. I admire them and love them but i will kill them on sight”

[@mohandzaidi5675]

As always, great and very accurate! I'm from Bejaia, the capital city of Hammadites in modern Algeria. And my wife is from Tlemcen. We keep preserving our proper Amazigh dialects, culture and traditions as living witnesses of our ancestors' glory.

[@dean1174]

Ayuz I chek

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

And i pray you come back to Christianity.

[@abuzaine3956]

@@suzannakoizumi8605 you will find that we are very proud Muslims....

[@mohandzaidi5675]

@Manoj Manoj How about your mother?

[@mohandzaidi5675]

@@dean1174 Azul fellak agma amazigh

[@kentam6891]

The Amazigh people are truly a formidable people since the Punic Wars! Respect to the land of sunset from the land of the rising sun!

[@oa2162]

@Caratacus Invaders stayed in the coast, north africa is huge, it is bigger than west Europe. Anyway, we dont care about your opinion...

[@oa2162]

Look at its position dude its the center of the mediterraniean, every super power will try to take that land that"s obvious for all the rest too... Egypt, Spain Frace Greece Marocco to name a few.. Yes I care about educating some ignorant haters.. tell us where you come from, maybe your country is 300 years old, was living from slave trade or got rich with it... a very honorable past

[@piratepat44]

@Caratacus you've got the most "well ackchually" energy I've heard in my life O.o

[@hsmile6720]

@Caratacus Which occupation of a thousand years are you talking about? The situation of North Africa today is linked to the situation in the Middle East and the wars there are thanks to usa and the poor development in Africa

[@hsmile6720]

@Caratacus Still waiting for you to tell me about a thousand years of colonization? There is no development in any country in the world without political stability and freedom of trade, and these things are not present in the Middle East problem area due to America’s invasion of Iraq and the spread of terrorist movements in Africa and dictatorial regimes that are protected by Europe. You should note that North Africa is the only region that It is still stable in a region that is full of wars, revolutions and the spread of terrorism

[@hamidhadjar5793]

As an Amazigh from the atlas mountains in Algeria, I believe that such documentaries are very important for many North Africans who think that they are Arabs ignoring that they in fact amazigh...as you mentioned, the modern post colonial regimes in our countries have brainwashed the population to believe that they only Arabs, I am still sad to hear from many so much ignorance of our history, but we can stay optimistic, as the history is waiting to be read

[@zazugee]

it's kinda complicated, i'm algerian too but the definition of arab is no longer strictly ethnical and it's cultural, but people mix the two strictly speaking, even mashrik or eastern arabs arn't arabs, the only ethnically arab arabs are yemenis, the other arabs from even the arabian peninsula are arabized arabs, this was even mentionned before islam arab arabia, and arab mustaraba i consider myself ethnically amazigh, we even asked about the origin of our grandfather and from my mom's uncles side we are amazigh, and we used to think from my father side we were from arab origin but found we were wrong lol but it's a fact that most of algerians are arabized culturally, but bc of ignorance, they started to believe that all algerians are of arab ancestry lol which nobody believe, even arabs from eastern arab world will never consider algerians arabs, like gulf people would never let their daughters marry someone from the maghreb lol

[@tallaelchazali5392]

​@@zazugee the word "arab" nowadays really just describes arabic speaking countries. As you said, we all have differing ethnicities but the language, religion and culture are the unifying variable. So yeah arab isn't an ethnicity really, but it's easier to identify ourselves as such because of how impactful the culture is. And the thing with the gulfs not marrying from maghreb is true but that's again due to more social issues and not real ethnic. Even within the gulf itself, families don't marry depending on the region lol

[@reginaneulandner8321]

@@tallaelchazali5392 Berbers are much nicer. Dont worry about,what is about other Arabs. At least more honest.

[@mrstarbuck9212]

The Arab word is a western therm , they created is to make it easy for them to call all the no-Europeans people of the Mediterranean coast. But i don't blame the Arabs and the Europeans, I blame the Berbers "amazigh" for ignoring their history and their identity.

[@MultiAmmar2000]

@@zazugee The last part is literally not true. Nobody in the gulf knows about berbers/amazigh simply that they are muslim brothers and sisters and are part of the wider arab world. The notion that they consider maghreb as lesser arabs literally does not exist and the only time I heard it was from amazigh teens when I visited Morocco. In my area a lot of levantine women from Lebanon travel for example and end up marrying (and some men too) and literally no one has ever looked down on them or said anyhthing about that, the only thing is that some people from specific tribes always oppose marriage from outside the tribe, or oppose marriage from specific tribes. You really think the "degree" in which you are arab matters to them? Like I said most literally have no idea and think kabyle and amazigh are like the people in the arabian peninsula and are arabized/muslim/arab like all of us. We all have different dialects and maaaany languages but are arabs if we speak arabic or come from a country that's part of that world with a very close shared history. At customs they consider Somalis our brothers and sisters and call them as arabs or another identity+arab or as people with a close history and part of the arab world and arab league, nobody cares if you are arabized lol. I am literally arabized and never in my life have I seen or heard anyone actually look down on me for it and most don't even know you can look down on someone for that, and the same thing with my entire family and entire region who have traveled all across the world and the arab world and don't even know that is a thing and you are more likely to get discriminated against for literally any other reason lmao Besides if you are arabized or have family who are or are from a tribe who settled from arabia or arabized then a DNA test can't tell you if that is true or not or how much native DNA took over as your tribe or families settled, especially not from a DNA test that can only go back a handful of generations. Not to mention there is no magical "arab gene" lol. Anyways they love you (or hate you ig) regardless.

[@TheHagueCity]

Funny fact to see that a majority off the Moroccan(North Africa) people are amazing at martial arts especially Kickboxing. Kinda heritage of there warrior ancestors

[@thatguyis3423]

Yeah and the arabs keep claiming them

[@daviddack951]

Can attest

[@theadventurerwanderer7914]

The majority are Arabs and speak Arabic.

[@thatguyis3423]

@@theadventurerwanderer7914 the majority speak arabic that’s true But all of them are amazigh That’s a fact backed by science ,So stop claiming other people’s history Have some respect and don’t call them arabs

[@henzshaz4182]

yes indeed Moroccans and some of their neighbouring countries are actually very strong and battle with fire in their hearts never give up they always fight at the best! true Warriors

[@winhtet6875]

I just wanna say that you guys are doing a fantastic job! Together with other channels, Kings and Generals made sure that my interest in history still burns bright for many years. And you guys were very helpful with my historical research assignments back in my school years. Now I'm in my last year of uni and I'll make sure to keep watching your videos long after I graduate.

[@MarkVrem]

This was pretty cool.. It put on a whole different light for me regarding Reconquista. Also differentiation between Moor and Arab. Helps un-muddle the history of the regions at hand big time. Now to go utilize this new contextual knowledge on other material! lol

[@peacefulweeb1507]

I just found my fellow country man who will get interested in the way I was in the past more than 2 years ago and still can't hold it back. This channel is great man. It's my favorite one whenever it release it's history video u better watch them all.

[@amnadhifaoui5183]

As Tunisian, we never learned about Berber history so deep. It was all about Carthage, punics, bezentin, arabs who conquered north africa and the recent history (france and turkey). When I grew up and knew about my amazeigh ethnic roots, I was surprised. We've been brainwashed by the arab deminance. Now, I want to say to people who's gonna read my comment that I'm a proud Tunisian Amazeigh ❤ 🙂 🇹🇳

[@Tenast_]

Well done 👍 Greetings from a very proud Amazigh-Tunisian 🇹🇳

[@khalidaityounous232]

Greetings from Moroccan amazigh

[@gerritpeacock8949]

you should be proud. I'm pretty sure that one of the children of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, later raised by Octavia (augustus caesar's sister) and married into a numidian royal family. you never know. you could be descended from those two. either way the amizigh are a fascinating bunch and in their blood is the remnants of Carthage. To me the destruction of Carthage is one of the most evil things in history.

[@يزن-ز2ت]

"We've been brainwashed by the Arab deminance "💀☠☠

[@sen.n.176]

same in morocco the media as well as the school program did great job hiding our roots making me sad and angry

[@abirkalai5688]

North African here (Tunisia) , thank you for this beautiful exposé of our origins. Most of us are Arabic speakers, but we are Amazigh at heart.

[@Kakashi_hatakeee]

Tunisia were mostly carthaginians idk what your talking about

[@abirkalai5688]

@@Kakashi_hatakeee carthaginians were the ruling elite, not the majority. They descend from middle eastern ancestors who migrated to North Africa (which was already populated) and established well connected trade routes. Berbers (the native population) stayed within non-costal areas.

[@KhalilBehri]

@@abirkalai5688 Oh boy we Tunisians are one hell of a mix I'd say we have one of the richest Histories until the Ottoman c u n t s rolled in and the dark age began for the region

[@Marocchino_italiano]

@@Kakashi_hatakeeeThe Carthaginians was the people of Carthage it was a Phoenician colony but the people and many tribes near Tunisia remained Berbers

[@amir1780]

​@@Kakashi_hatakeee carthaginians were Berbers anyway Phoenicians were the ruling class

[@seanbeahn6895]

When I went to Morocco, it amazed me how many of the people there absolutely despised the term "Berber".

[@AB-fr2ei]

Because they call themselves imazighen meaning "Strong, Brave, Free"

[@cupcake7217]

No one in Morocco even uses berber. They use amazigh or more common, the name of their tribe

[@DubyaDeeEight]

“Berber” means “titty” in Chinese

[@YasserMaghribi]

@@DubyaDeeEight that's not relevant

[@moulayismail1546]

@@DubyaDeeEight It's so funny because "Han" literally means as*hole in Ait Izenasen berber dialect.

[@dc7218-x6g]

The Berbers weren't just good fighters. They were Amazigh.

[@ahmedtazi1628]

Amazingh u mean lol

[@biancamence8132]

What do u mean ?.. amazigh is a synonym of berber 😅

[@abdelhakwinston6200]

lol good one

[@simplythebest286]

hahahahahahaha good one !!!

[@itpi1489]

@@LegendarySoLL he means amazing \ amazigh

[@tessoup9022]

As a Chaoui of Algeria, I thank you for this incredibly detailed video! It’s quite disheartening to grow up and realize so much of your culture is now lost to time (for multiple reasons).

[@الإنسانالحر-و9ف]

بصح نسب طارق بن زياد لطنجة للماروك خخخخ

[@salahroudani]

@@الإنسانالحر-و9ف wa sir tkmch, hahah Tarek Ben Zyad was Moroccan Berber & so is Al andalus, algeria at that time was colonized by the Ottomans, so please read your history and stop ur nonsese algerian hatred that we do not give shit about

[@doya1310]

@@salahroudani lmaaaaaao pov: you never opened a history book in your whole life. How can Andalusia be yours when islam came from east not west? Andalusia fell during mid 1400, turks came to Algeria in the late 1500. Tariq was algerian and he did the conquest in tangier along side other Muslim berbers and arabs.

[@doya1310]

@@الإنسانالحر-و9ف منسبهاش طارق صح انطلق من طنجة بعد ما فتحها. راه قال بلي اصلو بربري برك و سكت.

[@zakariamimouni279]

@@الإنسانالحر-و9ف هو قال طارق بن زياد بربري ماكان لا مروك لا دزاير اصلا المغرب مابداش تال الادارسة

[@assafountakat]

I am an amazigh descente from Morocco and I thank you so much for this illustration and illumination about our history that someone trying by all arms possible to cancel it from the history.

[@yellisatyiraten2879]

Hi from KABYLIA, don't worry brother nobody can hide our history and we have to fight for it.We are n will be here for ever.

[@hypocop8220]

Who tf want to delete your history

[@assaadamimi6312]

@@hypocop8220 exactly

[@amat9285]

@@hypocop8220 arabs want to act like original moroccans aren't amazigh

[@Sara-dv2nj]

@@hypocop8220 Pan-arabism , most of our people act as if they're Arabs where Arabs themselves throughout history view us as a different ?race? or at least a different ethnicity. There's no denying we are mixed to some extnet today , but the effort to delete completely the Amazigh people's history is grand and annoying.

[@yanniammari1491]

when a foreign youtube channel teaches you a thousand times more on your peoples history than your school

[@azzoukismail4842]

so sad

[@maryamalwali765]

If you are a Moroccan then you know how much our education system is brook

[@chemsbenallag6454]

It hurts deeply. 😔

[@psichoparano]

what do you expect from the ruling arab regimes ?

[@honeybal878]

Thé reason is plain to see. Religion has stoned Berbers. They need to wake up, get emancipated from Islam.

[@bennvabenn1706]

Al Hamdoulilah finally my people are being represented in the history of North Africa greetings from the Rifs of Morocco. One Ummah

[@13thdivision70]

Nice to see a other Rifi here

[@thestranger5705]

Greetings from kabylia

[@13thdivision70]

@@thestranger5705 Rif♥️Kabylia

[@thestranger5705]

@@13thdivision70 💚💙❤💛

[@13thdivision70]

@Senced BntSenced INSHA ALLAH A CALIPHATE FROM MAGREB AL AQSA TO INDONESIA

[@thekurd3837]

Love to our amazigh brothers and sisters from kurdistan 💚💚💚

[@khalidaityounous232]

much love from an amazigh moroccan to kurdistan

[@skizomama]

slav from imazighen to our kurdish brothers in Kurdistan

[@thekurd3837]

@@skizomama 💐💐💐

[@mrdonaldabuivankatrump2700]

Herbiji Kurds ❤️

[@tahamenji6837]

This à video about berbers not ama3iz

[@Kate-cu3zv]

I'm Berber myself, thank you for talking about our great civilization, most people don't know about it.

[@danirey425]

What I found interesting was their defense strategy. against foreigners they'd fall back to the harsh interior, regroup then strike back.

[@telgou]

That includes the mountains, not the desert only. (unlike what all videos about berbers say)

[@anon-iraq2655]

arabs did the same, russians , mongols , vietnamese ,kurds and any people based on a rough terrain did that really

[@saladinknightsorder1319]

It has been used for centuries Berbers used hit and run tactics from the punic wars to crusade wars under Saladin command there were famous units such as Numidian Cavarly or Numidian Javeliman and Berber light Cavarly

[@elsahrawi760]

The desert and the mountains ranges were our biggest advantages to fight some of the largest empires in history.

[@kothar6159]

Dornishmen from GRRM game of thrones is based on, even the clothing.

[@Arthur-pc1eh]

I can't believe you forgot the Amazigh natives of the Canary Islands!

[@mhejlskbsvsbwn6560]

Ikr nobody ever talks about them

[@madmo9698]

same thing with southern half of MOROCCO an Mauritania. but stil is a good work.

[@tehenouhr3714]

@@madmo9698 modern day Mauritanians are subsaharan not amazigh

[@solomons5669]

@@tehenouhr3714 They’re mixed

[@tunisianfisherman3102]

@@mhejlskbsvsbwn6560 am berber and i know they are my brothers

[@hidalgoyakerson1598]

Beber here. Been with this Channel for years , pleasant surprise to see a video about us

[@lauriekline178]

Proud Canarian Amazigh here. Roots in Lanzarote.

[@carnage6542]

greetings from Rif ⵣ I'd like to get to know some canarians but they are rarely seen

[@lauriekline178]

@Poultry499 I speak American English, Spanish and little bit of Moroccan Arabic.

[@amir1780]

​@@carnage6542 the problem is that most of them got killed in a Genozide

[@yougoglencoco377]

So proud of my ancestors. Greetings from souss, morocco. Thank you for this hughly informative video.

[@Lordofvenlo]

What is Souss like? I’ve never visited Morroco

[@khalidaityounous232]

@@Lordofvenlo souss is a region in morocco where mesmouda tribe

[@edatercharles5566]

My people finally getting represented on one of my favourite history channels!!!

[@Omegaeon1]

people hernandez ?

[@meladahmed5785]

I am from the Tuareg🇱🇾 thank you for this wonderful documentary report, Amazigh history and civilization

[@TheSludgeMan]

I was always told that my family heritage is Berber but I never really knew what that meant. This was beautifully presented, taught me a lot and has genuinely made me happy. Thank you!

[@bellebilabong]

and there's still a lot more to find out , berbers were literally some of the most badass warriors in history i'd recommend you do researeches on your own you'll find out a lot of cool things

[@moorishsociety7339]

"Berber" is an insult.

[@thatguyis3423]

@@bellebilabong any recommendations?

[@bobbyben6134]

Berber was another insult to Black people

[@lonewolf4689]

Brother don't use the word Berber because the word associated with Barbaricans.

[@thisisdani6095]

As a Kurd, I’m so proud of Amazighs resistance, huge respect! 💪🏻 I have many many Moroccan and Algerian friends ✌️

[@aroundtheworld2813]

at least we exist imagine being a kurd you litterly dont exist

[@simonsarh8024]

@@aroundtheworld2813 why u so mean?

[@thisisdani6095]

@Spolierman به فارسی هم بزارید روشن کنم براتون. چیزی که شما دارید میگید اشتباهه. حتی رژیم ایران هم میدونه کوردها و فارس‌ها بومی این منطقه هستن. البته ترک ها از آسیا میانه و اعراب از شبهه جزیره عربستان به این منطقه حمله کردن. ماد‌ها اجداد کوردهای امروزی و پارت ها اجداد پارس ها هستند.از نظر زبان شناسی، کوردی و فارسی و پشتو هم خانواده هستند.

[@nabil5535]

@@aroundtheworld2813 calm down wannabe Arab.

[@ColonelFluffles]

@@aroundtheworld2813 Kurds have very old history dating back thousands of years

[@casawi1986]

phenicians - Romans - Vandals- Arabs -Turks - French - Spanish - português - Italians , our ancestors couldn't catch a break allways Conquered by somone.

[@699CHIP]

@@John-pk9rw Persians?

[@stahleis]

better add germans

[@yr.5511]

And yet here we are, we still have our language and culture ... it's a miracle that the amazigh identity is still alive

[@444_taziri]

Yet we still know our language and culture:))

[@blenshanegro3260]

Fezzan was conquered by Kanuris and Tuaregs by Fulanis Songhais and Mandinkas.

[@dyhia5354]

Proud to be one of the indigenous North Africa ✨️as a kabylian from Algeria I left this comment

[@belkacemF]

وتحيا اسلام

[@rsns776]

@@belkacemF yeah long live them in the lake of 🔥 you mean

[@Doob_518]

Kabyle 😢

[@phuphovlog]

​ you dont proud to be muslim.thanks to arab they spread islam in north africa and morroco golden age start from.900s its not imp ?@Poultry499

[@TheBreaveHeart888]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how unbiased you guys are in your videos?? Always trying to stay as neutral as possible and focus on delivering history as accurately as possible taking in consideration references from different sources and not just one source. Always loved your videos and still continue to love them! As a history maniac, massive thanks for entertaining and enlightening me! ❤

[@brixcosmo]

Exactly! A rarity these days!

[@NLTops]

Wow, Berbers were total badasses.

[@zikorioImazighen]

THANK YOU SIR ❤♓

[@NLTops]

Haha, just calling it like I see 'em friends. I can appreciate any culture that calls themselves "Free People" and doesn't take shit from anyone, means they got their priorities straight. Much love from the Netherlands. ♥

[@Mr.Riffian]

Were? They are still badasses.

[@zikorioImazighen]

@@NLTopsLOVE YOU TOOO BROTHER ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤♓♓♓♓♓🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@bigfoot5185]

Thanks sir

[@sosoew3115]

I am here before algerians & morrocans started fighting about sahara in the comments

[@10_vittesse]

As an Amazigh i thank you for making this video.❤

[@MariamPareArt]

I am Moroccan, and my mother is from near Tangier, and Ref… My grandmother has tattoos on her chin… I always wanted to learn more about our Amazigh background.

[@phobosdeimos4598]

same for me

[@dzpower189]

HELLO FROM ALGERIA 🇩🇿 the land of IMAZIGHRAN 👋 king and generals I suggest you to learn about sefar the ghost city in the algerian Sahara

[@599ria]

IMAZIGHEN BROTHERS

[@dzpower189]

@سعيد محمد سعيد صفرار تحياتي

[@dzpower189]

@Mehmed Islamof hello friend

[@dzpower189]

@@599ria thank you

[@dzpower189]

@Steve Dubreuil bonjour

[@hassenkhiat2326]

As An AMAZIGH ♓️ myself I am happy to see this amazing detailed video. You gave a fair explanation of the North African History. Great work keep it up…

[@MUHAMMADBLACKARAB]

Berbère is black origin. Not white.

[@IbrahimStanikzai]

​@@MUHAMMADBLACKARABshut up they were white

[@ConquerorsnotColonizers]

​@@MUHAMMADBLACKARABNo

[@aymenhjj322]

​@@MUHAMMADBLACKARABblack are west African not north lol

[@islamebenchehida4993]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@MUHAMMADBLACKARAB

[@mostaphiofthekingjuba8204]

👍🏻I am Algerian Berber and I am proud of my true origin🇩🇿♓👑

[@krausssama8286]

Belah foumok

[@phuphovlog]

And muslim not?.]proud for you

[@rudman97]

More and more people are uniting everyday in the name of History under this channel Kings & Generals. Very amazing!

[@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872]

I was always curious about the Berbers. I am glad to see the rise of Berbers and their reconquest of Amazigh identity, culture and history in Algeria, Marroco.

[@sadaqataljariya]

Thank you from an Amazigh brother

[@wewewowo960]

Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Égypt Mali Mauritania Sénégal Burkina Faso Niger

[@sadaqataljariya]

@Ibo Robotnik well you can make them leave if you 'te a man but you are insignificant and have no say in anything you 're just a nobody

[@cupcake7217]

@Ibo Robotnik lol we're Africans and we're here to stay

[@cupcake7217]

@Ibo Robotnik more African than you,cope

[@sweetpotato1794]

We are waiting for part 2 with almoravid dynasty 👑🇲🇦👑 I love your channel very informative ❤

[@fy1684]

❤️ ❤️

[@musiclindo1962]

That flag on your comment is not welcome 🤮 Im Amazigh and you re certainly not ! That flag is a symbol of all misery that my people went through and stil is strugling with till this day !!! Your place is in saudi arabia!! Take your Islam and leave 😌🙏🏿 . Peace for mankind regardless religion , customs and culture 🤘❤️. Frontiers should be drawn between cultures to keep peace 🤘. Your Islamic ruler mohamed 6 is a tyran who steals our welth , kills and wrapes our people!!! Your not welcome , just leave all of you 😌😌🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@themercifulguard3971]

@@musiclindo1962 We will never take away Islam from our hearts. You can hate certain political figures but Islam and our Prophet is great. :0

[@Mohamed-RidaHalmi]

@@musiclindo1962 Islam is what saved the Maghreb our peak was under Islam

[@ayassines5841]

@@musiclindo1962 You little pagan , berbers and north African ppl were at there peak and power after Islam.

[@dalidaboumedien5370]

امازيغية من وهران الجزاير وافتخر باصلي ولغتي و ديني . تحيا فلسطين 🇵🇸✌🇩🇿

[@salineademoiselledefortune9766]

Thank you for this. As the daughter of an Algerian Jew, I feel this is also part of my history and i don't often get occasions to learn more about Amazigh culture and history so it's always precious for me when I can.

[@salut4396]

You know Jews have their own ethnicity? The “amazigh” Jews aren’t actually amazigh.

[@jubaii4142]

Nice kho

[@jugurtha292]

Well next time don’t side with the colonizers so you wont get kicked out

[@mahmoudboston4727]

@@jugurtha292 exactly

[@speartongamer6080]

@@salut4396 jeudism is a religion. there are Amazigh, jews christians and muslims

[@elhamrif.e44]

As a berber : Thank youuuuuuuu. Love and respect for your channel

[@mgppl4329]

Imagine being Amazigh and calling yourself "BeRbEr". Catastrophic....

[@ihebela7220]

@@mgppl4329 hahaha this is really fucked up bro tell him that we are Amazigh

[@Rymontp]

A bit unsettling how you guys always manage to upload the topics I'm interested about. I thought about the Berbers yesterday and now there's a video about them!

[@salemhassan2010]

I swear it’s insane I talked to my friend about the battle of agincourt and was surprised they didn’t have one on it ... a day later they upload one 😂

[@Rymontp]

@@salemhassan2010 Damn lmao, seems like I'm not the only one then

[@muhammadeisa1459]

@@Rymontp coincidence? I think not!

[@legendkiller2001]

As an Iraqi, I have nothing but Respect and love to the Maghrebi people 🇮🇶❤️🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳🇱🇾🇲🇷

[@FireGodSlayer]

Amazigh people *

[@selimel4698]

As a moroccan I too love middle eastern civillisations and cultures 🇲🇦❤🇮🇶

[@JulesceasarEmpire]

This arab now amazigh is a old civilization

[@FireGodSlayer]

@@JulesceasarEmpire amazighs have nothing to do with Arabs

[@JulesceasarEmpire]

@@FireGodSlayer go learn from where the amazigh come from they are originally from Yemen so arabs after the glacial paroxysm you moved in North Africa in you called your self amazigh and in Tunisian they were no amazigh living there they were just nomadic people and they create there own civilization carthaginian this is why all middle eastern have the dna e1b1

[@massinissaziriamazigh8122]

Thanks for this great video 👍, I am an Algerian Amazigh and I speak tamazight

[@myamotomuzashi9080]

for them you are the enemy you aghiyoul they want to separate us to rule

[@aminekacimi.__.3307]

@@myamotomuzashi9080 sorry what !?

[@usts6su19]

I come form Sicily and on my DNA test I got 8.6% North African and 1,3% Middle-Eastern. Maybe we share some Heritage👍🏻😂🇮🇹

[@jugurthax6445]

Azul Bro from a chaoui

[@greenpill4175]

@@usts6su19 how did you know? i wanna do this dna test

[@usts6su19]

Greetings from Sicily 🇮🇹

[@Badrhari52]

Thnx greeting from Amazigh from Belgium

[@usts6su19]

I just took my DNA test and Got 8.6% North African and 1,3% Middle-Eastern.

[@izbaimizbaim6228]

@@usts6su19 But Middle-Eastern does not necessarily mean Arab DNA

[@usts6su19]

@@izbaimizbaim6228 Of course, but because of the history of Sicily, that's highly probabile.

[@islo3941]

LOVE and miss Sicily!

[@FairinArt]

Wow. Even as a Muslim there's so much I had never even heard of before watching this video. The editing and script is all top notch. Its hard to believe I can watch such a great video for free. Thanks guys!!

[@spesial1199]

@@atmabeeharry832 l pround my acesator convert to islam and pround learn islam and grow up by islam. Truly l pround with my religion.

[@k3yzer]

Berbers is a Greek word for foreigners. Origin name for us is Amazigh, which means in our language "freepeople". So it's better to call us with our own name. Thanks for making this video

[@benwoodruff1321]

What is the best pronunciation for Amazigh?

[@dingocosta2361]

قول والله

[@بلالالشاوي-خ7ط]

ترامك

[@user-ph8jj9qo6b]

Sterk

[@medlariby]

@@benwoodruff1321 The gh in the end is pronounced like R in french

[@fouezdesign]

From an Algerian Berber sending my greetings to the channel . Well done with this documentary video.

[@aminelmessaoudi1107]

I'm a berber, I never clicked so fast

[@Uncharted1911]

An Amazigh Bro ur not a Berber

[@aminelmessaoudi1107]

@@Uncharted1911 true, a shame even I got used to it

[@Uncharted1911]

@@aminelmessaoudi1107 Greeks being greeks 😂

[@sefrouhollywood116]

I am an Amazigh also proud to be

[@y.harveynorman1392]

So the Amazigh have been occupied by Muslim Arabs for 1400 years?

[@surriyajabeen2646]

I didn't know that a berber revolt would influence the beginning of reconquista

[@ghostd69]

Since he was talking about the berber revolt he should countine the event of what happened to the khwareji at the end..the umayyad general Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi ended the berber revolt after they defeat them in battle al qren and chlef al esnam resulted that most of khwarjei army was killed around 120k..the even was mentioned and witnessed by north african and berber historian for such as ibn raqeq al koroani and ibn khaldoun and ibn azari rashuidn their influence to this region doesn't counted since they stopped of their expasnion after death of uthman and first fitna has occrued North africa was sucessfully conquered completely within afew by uqba ibn nafiq as begining conquest of al maghreb started with umayyad..uqba got killed due to ambush that was set up by aksel along with berber and roman Later the umayyad had to temporarily abandon of their province in africa and others region due to the due to the conflicts and cilvil wars and the second fitna that lasted for 30 years..they were dealing with others empires and banditers and khwarjei in different area and region not just with the berber..caliph of umayyad abd al malak managed to extinguished the strife and conflicts along with his strong army and general..extend and recovered their influence and expansion to the new and their abandoned region

[@dominikfraaanjuan]

@@omarmma4254 i'm sure the one that after the Great Berber Revolt wasn't the Second, but the Third Fitna and the Abbasid Revolution

[@brasilsoccer0]

It was the Umayyad racist attitude towards non- Arab Muslims that led to their demise

[@milliyetci5672]

@@khalildz1552 Persian also revolt.... Arab was racist against non-arab muslim.... This is how Turk & Iranian rose up and sieged power of most of the islamic empire after 1000 AD..... You can see many islamic empire in middle-east after 1000 AD that most of rulers was Turkic Mamluk origin...

[@dominikfraaanjuan]

@@khalildz1552 wdym, the Persian in the Khorasan were also rebelling(i mean that was what the whole Abbasid Revolution is about)

[@Omegaeon1]

i"m a Kutama Berber from North east Algeria, Previously Numidia, and known as 'octomani' during Roman Empire time, we were the bulk of the Fatimid armies and i thank you for this documentary :)

[@hmzzrg5045]

Doesn't Fatimid = Shia in a way? Uh oh hope not

[@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404]

@@hmzzrg5045 modern day aren't.

[@Omegaeon1]

@@hmzzrg5045 we were yes, but the Zirids removed it and brought back the sunni Maliki school

[@hmzzrg5045]

@@Omegaeon1 alhamdulillah

[@jorgeh.r9879]

I thought the Kutama were extint. What Berber language do you speak?

[@pyrrhus3445]

Been waiting for this for a long time thanks kings&generals greetings from Algeria 🇩🇿

[@tehenouhr3714]

Algeria didn’t do any revolt, Morocco did

[@FancyBurrito47]

Me too brother 🇲🇦

[@jubaii4142]

@@immortalwarlock307 العرب وقود العار ✅

[@jubaii4142]

@@tehenouhr3714 If you watched the video well, I saw that we supported you with soldiers, and we are all Amazigh DNA 🇲🇦🇱🇾🇩🇿🇹🇳

[@jubaii4142]

@@immortalwarlock307 فاتحين؟!؟ قالت إنها علاش جيتو بالجيش خلو رجال الدين يدخلو .... هوما ما حبوش بغاو يردونا عرب و تارخنا و هويتنا عربية مشي امازيغية اصلية .... هذ هي نية العرب ... اذن هم غزاة لمصالحهم اكثر من اجل اصال الرسالة السماوية ... الاسلام ما قالش لازم تولي عربي اخر تدخل زمان 🥴 الاسلام هو ان تعبد الله و ليس اكثر ليس علاقة بالغزو و الاستيطان العرقي ولا اعتبار ان العرب قوم الله عند الاسلام هو قوم الله .... يخي عنصري تافهين ..... قدرو يديرو وشعرت دير فرنسا غير ستعمرتنا

[@bobthegamer1351]

I seriously think that if we start showing your videos in history classes for primary and secondary school children, they would learn 10 times more material than what they are learning currently, that too with keen interest. Keep up the good work!

[@fatima_zahra930]

We are Amazigh and proud of that. I am Amazigh from the High Atlas Mountains❤️💓

[@FancyBurrito47]

As a Moroccan of Amazigh ancestry, I want to thank you sincerely for making this video :) Best!!!

[@coffeedrinker2011]

As a native North African i'm very impressed of this fine work. thanks Kings and Generals.

[@TheRoxas314]

Almost all North-Africans are natives

[@coffeedrinker2011]

@@TheRoxas314 I agree.

[@Kakashi_hatakeee]

@@TheRoxas314 ??

[@DisgruntledHippo]

I love this. Didn't really know much about the Berbers until I read "The Early Arab Conquests." The foundation of the Berber Rebellion is fascinating as well.

[@ghostd69]

He was talking about the berber revolt he should as well countine the event of what happened to the khwareji at the end..the umayyad general Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi ended the berber revolt after they defeat them in battle al qren and chlef al esnam resulted that most of khwarjei army was killed around 120k..the even was mentioned and witnessed by north african and berber historian for such as ibn raqeq al koroani and ibn khaldoun and ibn azari rashuidn their influence to this region doesn't counted since they stopped of their expasnion after death of uthman and first fitna has occrued North africa was sucessfully conquered completely within afew by uqba ibn nafiq as begining conquest of al maghreb started with umayyad..uqba got killed due to ambush that was set up by aksel along with berber and roman Later the umayyad had to temporarily abandon of their province in africa and others region due to the due to the conflicts and cilvil wars and the second fitna that lasted for 30 years..they were dealing with others empires and banditers and khwarjei in different area and region not just with the berber..caliph of umayyad abd al malak managed to extinguished the strife and conflicts along with his strong army and general..extend and recovered their influence and expansion to the new and their abandoned region

[@Oussama-nf2zi]

You know Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya right? We are Berbers, so you knew us

[@Oussama-nf2zi]

@Sports Entertainment fck Gaddafi, he himself was a Berber, but he bannes the Berber language and wanted to Arabize every Libyan. Because of him many Libyans these days cant speak Tamazight

[@telgou]

@@ghostd69 Lmao why are you posting this in every comment about the berber revolt ? you are clearly an arab mad about the fact that the bedouins and their nobles got slaughtered, they were racists and got their asses kicked out. Stop the racial bias, and look at what how those umayad bedouins mistreated even the non arab middle easterners.

[@ghostd69]

@@telgou Lol iam not mad ita historical facts..arab at the end defeated u in battle of al qren and chlef that was lead by habdela..most of berber khwarjei was slaughtered..umayyad weren't bedouin..they heajzi tribes

[@Linda-gc9ru]

It's sad how we as north Africans we never learn about our history in schools it is completely ignored as if no one lived here before the few thousand Arab soldiers. Thank you for your work ❤

[@valtontony826]

no one learns their ancient history in school

[@szbszig]

Remnants of great Berber mausoleums are not only found on the coast region of the Maghreb, but deep in the Sahara as well. The tomb of Tin Hinan, ancient queen of the Tuaregs is probably the most famous example of this. (The tomb is also featured in the critically acclaimed video game franchise Amnesia, where it plays a key role in the story.)

[@freakrx2349]

You should have brought up the Guanche people of the Canary Islands. It is known that they are related to the mainland Berber tribes. They also developed a unique whistling language later known as Silbo.

[@ariyoiansky291]

interesting info

[@XxLIVRAxX]

While there is a genetic link, is a stretch to call Guanches Amazig or Berebers, they had a unique culture that develop in isolation for thousands of years.

[@telgou]

@@XxLIVRAxX wtf No it's not a stretch... Guanches were amazigh too, if you know even a bit you'd know they had the same lifestyle. They respected their ancestors by mummifying them and built granaries in the mountains just like berbers did all over north africa. And let's not talk about the genetic studies who further proved it.

[@afifihasan2134]

people of canary island never fight beat the european power. the people of canary islands surrender easily to spain. Meanwhile people of morocco, algeria and tunisia fight spain , france and portugal

[@Apokalypse456]

@@LuisAldamiz which is 3000 years now unless I am somehow mistaken, and until 1402 there was basically no outside influence, so 2400 years of isolation, which does qualify as "thousands of years".

[@saadchamekh9937]

Greetings from a Moroccan Berber 🇲🇦✌😁

[@sefrouhollywood116]

Amazigh

[@bobbyben6134]

Berber is another racist name for African people. Now you’re all Arab after the conquest & assimilation

[@realhades9178]

@@bobbyben6134 bruh, these kind of comments are the ones who make me mad the most, since i cant talk to you face to face, my man, literally. Read history.

[@lokmaanlokman7419]

Very important for many North Africans who think that they are Arabs ignoring that they in fact amazigh.

[@AABb-hs9jt]

للمعلومة: الجزائر دولة مسلمة عربية العرب 84٪، والبربر 16٪(البربر هم كذلك عرب عاربة وحروفهم هي احدى تطورات اللغة العربية القديمة ) في الاخير اقول الحمد لله على نعمه الاسلام الذي جعلنا امة واحدة ☝

[@kacperrybicki9020]

@@AABb-hs9jt No. Semites are different. Berbers (Amazigh) are a racial subgroup of the Caucasian Race of the Hamitic branch. They are native to North Africa and their paternal haplogroup (YDNA) is E1b1 M81 and maternal (Mtdna) U6a and M1. Near pure Berbers are found in Morocco, Algeria,and Tunisia. In the highlands the M81 marker can go up to 80%, which makes Berbers a homogeneous people on the paternal side. On the maternal side it is mixed, with Berber U6a being the dominant with significant amounts of European and sub-Saharan DNA. Semites are mainly J1 with significant amounts of J2, and E1b1. Yemenis, for example, have up to 85% J1 and it decreases gradually as you reach the Levant. Arabs and Jews are Semites and they carry around 50% J1 and J2. Semites did establish colonies along the North African coast (Phoenicians were the first Semites to have contact with Berbers) and the Arabs and Jews colonized many of the major cities. The so-called “Arabs” from Egypt to Morocco are actually hybrids of A+

[@pczone7641]

@@AABb-hs9jt انت لست عربي انت من موالي العرب

[@socrates6212]

@@AABb-hs9jt العكس

[@gr7725]

Berbers always seem like such an amazing culture

[@benimazigh5631]

Yes and we are also one of the biggest traitors to each other. Never give a Berber your back, i tell you that as an Mazigh myself! Today they are just claiming they are descend of Imazighen but can't even speak the language 🤣

[@Emad63324]

@@benimazigh5631 You're absolutely right...Treason and selfishness wiped us apart. And amazigh alphabet was disappeared since the romans invaded. So we embarrassed arabic language and religion and now we are so far from the amazigh people that lived here 3000 years before this day.

[@Muslimfighter952]

@@Emad63324 are u Muslim?

[@ezzovonachalm7534]

"The Amazighs are amazings" (Butch Thumby, American author)

[@khalidaityounous232]

much love from an amazigh moroccan

[@danielconde13]

Gotta feel respect towards the Berbers, what an amazing stand against the might of the Arabs. The Berber Revolt of 740 in Iberia did play a major role in History, even greater than what was described here. In fact, the whole of the ancient Roman Province of Gallaecia was abandoned, encompassing what is nowadays Galicia (Spain) and Northern Portugal. This throw the region into what we call in Portugal the _Ermamento_ , meaning roughly an "unpopulated area". Of course the region wasn't all deprived of people, but it did presented an awkward situation, for it was not under the control of neither the Caliphate nor the Kingdom of Asturias. Churches and monasteries were all that could maintain a sense of cohesion here for the next decades, but it was indeed an easy target for the Kingdom of Asturias to come and claim it. Some of the first nobles of Asturias were indeed from Gallaecia, not Asturias itself. Notice that, in the History of the Reconquista, these early stages are not mentioned as conquests, but by the latin name of _Praesvria_ , meaning something like "to claim", not so much "to conquer" or "to retake". Such is the case of the _Praesvria_ of now Portuguese cities such as Braga, Porto (and the _Praesvria_ of Porto started the creation of the County of Portucale, the seed to what would become an independent Portugal in 1143), Chaves and Lamego, as soon as in the IX century. By the X Century, Reconquest secured all regions North of the Douro, never to loose it again, and indeed the Reconquista march to the South always went on further in the West than in the East. Muslim archaelogical foundings are not to be found (no pun intended) in Gallaecia. Even Muslim names for places/rivers or villages/towns are pratically none, much differently from the rest of the country, where they come by the dozens. We do have lots of "legends" about Moorish princessess traped inside some rock, who can be heard singing or working on a loom and only during the night of St. John's day, go figure - don't ask me why... All started with the Berber Revolt. Cheers from sunny Northeastern Portugal. 😎🇵🇹

[@danielconde13]

@@lysimachosdiadochos7203 👍

[@Brahmdagh]

Cool

[@danielconde13]

@@Brahmdagh 👍

[@user-jq4hi8te3j]

You know what is weird? Galicia has the highest percentage of North African DNA in all of Iberia!

[@telgou]

@@user-jq4hi8te3j The community of Pasiegos in the mountains have the highest percentage actually, then it's either south portugal or cantabria according to the genetic studies(concerning haplogroups) But do you want to learn about a weird unknown fact(because it was just discovered) ? the Basque have north african dna too.

[@madanicherfaoui9548]

I am an Amazigh (berber) from Algeria and I thank you for your video, your channel is a real school of history that unfortunately the Arabic regime is not allowing people to know or study, they taught us and teach our children fake history saying that arabs didn't colonize North Africa and they call it Fath which absurdly means bringing Islam to the world but in fact it was just a colonization covered by the religion. Till now the Amazigh people in North Africa are still oppressed by the arab regime but we are fighting peacefully for our identity and culture and we never bend because we are free people we are Amazigh

[@Oromambo]

Victory to Amazigh people.

[@max89109]

absolutely 💯

[@phuphovlog]

😂😂 how funny you say its mean you ... tought that islam is not for . Algerians its mean you dont proud to be this islam become and you become muslim,mm its not good you hate arab ameer maviyah conquest algeria just bcz they spread islam

[@benyaminahoucine1039]

As an algerian i have never heared about this at all even at school or anywhere.. This is a great documentary.

[@revenger8744]

They teach this in school You're just lazy

[@Doob_518]

Schools do not teach you the history of your country, and this is a fact

[@max89109]

​@@revenger8744they teach us fake history lol

[@revenger8744]

@@max89109 i literally learned this in primary school and i still remember it some people are just lazy to learn and others are even lazier to be a teacher i guess

[@max89109]

@@revenger8744 yeah same, we learned, but not in details. It's about the details, not laziness.

[@salut4396]

Love from an amazigh Algerian 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@sicriti]

Love back from Amsterdam💯💯🙏

[@anthonymanderson7671]

Sub Saharan African Here!! I'm really impressed by this video. I always thought that berber was only a native language of north africa but i found out that there is north african native tribe named berber. Greetings from zambia 🇿🇲

[@maassrddd]

The word berber comes from roman greeks They called us that but we are amazigh

[@rockymvvrcianu6846]

No such thing as a "Sub Saharan African". Do not let liars, invaders, and murderers, or their descendants, try to compartmentalize you to one region on that continent, as if the Sahara is some impassable barrier.

[@benjaminsmith2287]

@@rockymvvrcianu6846 This history isn't complete. I don't like the term sub-Saharan African because it denotes race and not location. It shouldn't. North Africa had people living in the desert when it was green Sahara. Archeologists have found evidence of them.

[@lauriekline178]

@@rockymvvrcianu6846 you are on the wrong channel. Sub Saharan African is the correct term. Negro is also acceptable terminology. I gather you do not have negro DNA. I do.

[@ovic2008]

As an amazigh person , i say this video is fair and objective.

[@adelomar3929]

Yeah Bilal,got you,i will back to museum lol

[@Cben9212]

Such a great piece of work. As a Moroccan, this is not what they taught us in schools. In fact we never knew that such a war existed between the arabs and the berbers.

[@adamadamus2714]

The Alawiet dynastie don’t whant you to know because it will put them in the shadow of the ones who are natural leaders and fought only when it came up to their freedom and independence.

[@jackal25301]

Pay attention next time during history class instead of sleeping. We do 100 learn about berber revolt and Moroccan tribes winning independence from eastern caliphates effectively starting the first moroccan states of nekour/sijilmasa/barghwata and zenata confederate.

[@sephikong8323]

"Pale with tattoos, long beard and hair, uncivilized" So, if I follow the ancient Egyptian definition the berber were the first Metalheads?

[@Oussama-nf2zi]

@@LauftFafa why should they understand Arabic? Its not their language, its not the language of North Africa, they speak the native language

[@Oussama-nf2zi]

@@LauftFafa 40% in Morocco speaks Tamazight, and almost 50% of the Moroccans worldwide speaks Tamazight. Besides that, many Arabic speaking Moroccans know that they are Amazigh, and the Moroccan culture is almost fully Amazigh, the clothing, traditions, food, architecture, dances etc

[@ndourdorice3870]

@wulpurgis ''via slave-trade''?? are you high or something? berber slave-traders sell the black African they captured to middle eastern & north Africa markets not to westerners and those enslaved black African captives were mostly females and had not been 'culturally' berberized or arabized yet.

[@sephikong8323]

@@LostTumbs Because they didn't. They simply established colonies along the coast without resistance from the Berbers as they had good relations and it allowed them to trade in a mutually beneficial way. When Carthage expanded, it didn't just "conquer" Berbers, it made them fight amongst each other, because Carthage was never alone and always had allies, tributaries and subjects amongst it's neighbors. Plus, the Egyptians also had very little incentives to conquer this area of the world anyway, they always either kept to themselves or tried to conquer the much more fertile and rich Levant Also, cultural influences go both ways, we know that the Amazigh language has borrowed words from every other people that came along north Africa through cultural exchanges and even conserved those words very well. Nowadays this language is even frequently used by linguists to try and piece out those ancient languages like the African Romance or (Carthaginian) Phoenician, it is not enough since it's just a few loan words, but it's a really useful source to have.

[@sephikong8323]

@@LostTumbs Numidia wasn't a unified kingdom during the Carthaginian period, the berber were still disunited between different tribes and confederation. The Carthaginian sure had good relations with them overall but they still went to war with them on occasion

[@chammmlammm117]

That's how we should be learning history, I appreciate your time and effort to produce this amazing work.

[@hamidaliaissaoui3731]

Thank you so much for this video ! My dad comes from the village of Baghaï (wilaya of Khenchela in Algeria), it's the village of the queen Dihya who fought the arab invasions. In the city center there is a big statue of her.

[@elhinm07]

And alhamdl she lost😉

[@Nermine_SHIN_CHANG]

I am a proud Muslim Amazigh from the north of Morocco, I felt a astonishing feeling when watching the history of my ancestors, Great work!

[@NW-yy3pz]

I was desperately looking for an english video to share it with my kids . This video does it all and provides an excellent overview. What a wonderful job, thank you so much 👍

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

Iam Libyan 🇱🇾 and proud of being Berber and our emperor from Libya who controlled the Roman Empire septimus Severus

[@zackspicer3481]

Amazigh* stop calling thine selves berber, it was meant to be an insult for the tribesmen.(everyone at the time)

[@RedMojaveBraveUSMC]

@@zackspicer3481 just as they called the celts and germanic tribesmen barbarians = berber same thing

[@moorishsociety7339]

Lol.....You know "Berber" is an insult right ?

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

@@zackspicer3481 you can’t ignore it this is harsh truth brother

[@bejakabyle]

Be careful the Bedouins Arabs of Gueddafi re coming back to power