The Moors: What Was Life Like In Dark Age Spain? | Time Team | Chronicle

Tony Robinson and the experts turn their backs on Benidorm to travel a few miles up the coast to the small port of Denia in Spain to show what life was like 1000 years ago when Denia was an Islamic settlement run by a pirate king.
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[@ancientnaker]

Great documentary though there are some things missing. One such a thing is the color on the thumbnail 😂.

[@matthewryan7775]

You can't go around posting video titles using "Dark Age" unironically with a bunch of history nerds as your primary audience. You can't.

[@shootgunMarvel]

😂😂😂😂😂 you got a good point! 😂

[@shootgunMarvel]

YOU CAN'T!!!

[@mrmu7ammed1]

History nerds!! Guess you’re right

[@charliekezza]

33:41 I so want to try that pumpkin pudding it looks amazing

[@jk_016]

Andalusia our pride

[@karimhmimi1244]

🇲🇦👑🇲🇦

[@xhorxheetxeberria-td1hu]

It's amazing how most English people have no idea that things they think are modern inventions were actually invented centuries before they did anything similar themselves. Spain wasn't Britain. It had an enlightened civilization and most definitely not a dark age.

[@doncartier-81]

It was the Moors that helped civilize Europe. They brought Science,taught how to manipulate elements from the table of contents, built castles and taught them how to bathe. Europeans were dying off from plague.

[@DominicJGomez]

It was actually a slave based civilization

[@harispratama4691]

​@@DominicJGomezThe Spanish practiced slavery too during their golden age. Same with the Abbasid

[@LowerTheBoom]

So sorry, the card says *MOOPS* ! 🤣

[@Gashshiningstar]

Those aint moors on the pictures.

[@kinfolk233]

“Dark Age Spain…” 😮‍💨🧐

[@Rares.E]

Thank you!

[@lindahughes2289]

LOVE YA PHIL !!!

[@Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

Muslim Iberia/Al Andalus brought such much to Spain.. It's really silly to only focus on piracy, which was only one aspect of the things they were doing.

[@jojolafrite9265]

Oui ils ont surtout apporté des siècles de guerre ,de la discrimination des hindigenes chrétiens, de l'esclavagisme sexuelles ect ect ☪️💩🚽🧹🧹

[@HOWMUSICTV]

7:45 thank you thank my Paternal lineage Spanish Israelite

[@MYTMIC]

Moorish Spain was a Golden Age

[@douglasbuck8986]

WE are about to find out .....................

[@AbuSous2000PR]

i was shocked to learn that Spain at one point... was more Muslim than Palestine at the time

[@wewenang5167]

well even during Saladin times half of the civilian in Palestine were Christians.

[@judithmacfadzen9516]

Didn't you study any history in high school? 🤔

[@HOWMUSICTV]

7:13 what about the Jewish MENA Middle Eastern North Africa 7:50 Biblical chosen

[@NOTORIOUS-92]

Moors are Moroccans 🇲🇦❤️ Not Arabic but Amazigh ❤️

[@elishabazz7315]

moors are not morrocan lol. moors are black people in general.

[@kenzabel5394]

@@elishabazz7315 hhh these afrocentrists are as sick as eurocentrist

[@soukainabas]

​@@elishabazz7315 black people were brought to it but did not create it the real moors are every Muslim: Arabs, amazigh, and the black were minority

[@Yuba749]

​@@elishabazz7315funny 😂😂

[@alpharius_nox]

@@Yuba749Moor is a word that means “black” in every Latin language. Why would they use a word that means black if the people were as white as your average German? Also, pick up any book written before the 19th century and you’ll see every instance of a Moor being described as black as pitch. For instance in the 14th Century poem “Morien”, the Moorish knight part of the King Arthur legend.

[@classicambo9781]

17:03😊

[@billiondollarbaby973]

Why is this video about the Moors with a white Arabs on the thumbnail?

[@ivankrasimirov6476]

Arabs and Berbers are Moors not Sub-saharan banana tree climbers

[@bigcoop3717]

@@ivankrasimirov6476 The Moors are not Caucasus mountains cave beasts

[@ivankrasimirov6476]

@@bigcoop3717 The Moors are the Umayyad Caliphate that used the Arabic language, alphabet, religion and Mecca as capital of the Empire. The records of the slave markets are still accessible and they all say the same thing a саstrated sub-saharan аsphaltskin bаnаnа trее сlimber is the cheapest slave on the market. You're cosplaying as your own Slave Master hahahahahaha

[@neonity4294]

Ah yes, the 90s when archaeologists could identify the origin of humans based on their bones. "He was african because his upper jaw is far more pronounced" Try that today and you will be jobless within two hours.

[@juancana457]

2 Thessalonians 2: 10He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them.

[@gagatube]

They were talking about the 900's (etc) when the bone structure of humans _did_ identify their origins.

[@juancana457]

As a retired medical professional, I was taught those of Sub-Saharan derivation (black) have various slight skeletal derivations, nothing more. The petty, with their projection of many inner emotional issues, has denied themselves the ability to grow perpetually.

[@larryzigler6812]

NOPE

[@juancana457]

@@larryzigler6812 Bravo, a globally entitled child, good luck.🤨

[@speakupriseup4549]

Times were vastly improved after El Cid cleaned up the place.

[@-Blast]

Cleaned up the place ?

[@courtneyriley185]

​@@-Blast mooslums sleep with children.

[@Omarrah3214]

Reconquista fanboy

[@wewenang5167]

Its funny that Historian would still call the Muslims in Spain as invaders when in reality the live there a long sides the Christians and Jews longer than any White people in America even set foot on North America and South America. If the Arabs and North African are invaders then we should also call the White people that settled in United sates now as Invaders too. The Arabs didn't just charged through Spain like Genghis Khan, they settled there and built their civilization and mingle with the locals. They were settlers just like early European in the US. Unlike in the US where the Native population were push out from their native land and force to march to a new reservations, the native Spanish Christians and Jews during that times were living side by side with the Muslim with each their owned sections or quarters of the city like in Jerusalem. As a matter of fact It was a Visigoth Christians Prince who invited the Arabs to help him toppled his king from the throne...many Spanish Christians lords and Visigoths chief later converted to Islam and intermarriage with the Arabs and North African and created a new sub culture of mixed ethnicity call Mozarabic.

[@jojolafrite9265]

🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@themechanictangerine4337]

Both Europeans and Arabs-Moors were invaders, so were the Romans and Visigoths, Jews were immigrants

[@mohamedrh4093]

I always disagreed with calling them moors because they often got confused with blackamoors from the 17th century onwards

[@Gashshiningstar]

They're not as black as a moor. Can't be considered a moor if you are not black as one.

[@nasro97]

@@Gashshiningstar you don t know shit shut up

[@dacokc]

that blonde lady does a lot of running around!

[@MikeLiteraus]

The "slavery" king.

[@leegundlach391]

Of white people

[@robinwhitman8840]

T.Y.

[@MoneyB-r2y]

I didnt know black people were in spain

[@ivankrasimirov6476]

As castrated slaves for Muslims

[@bigcoop3717]

@@ivankrasimirov6476 Arabs were concubines and servants for the Moors

[@jhelm1712]

This is Arab history and should remain this way...🤣😂

[@Yuba749]

No brother, it's Moors/Amazigh history

[@jojolafrite9265]

Cet l'histoire des voleurs de terre Chrétienne venu d'Afrique ☪️💩🧹🧹

[@Moorish_01]

Nope . Moroccan only . Go make your own

[@jojolafrite9265]

​@@Moorish_01Le Maroc a cette époque il n'existait pas, le Maghreb c'était l'empire Mauritanien

[@Moorish_01]

@@jojolafrite9265 geographically it is morocco. Maghreb “the west” not all north africa. Write in English . French is a waste of time

[@lexigrimhaive]

I'm really disappointed by how *boring* this doc was. Time Team is usually SO fascinating, but this one barely even discussed the Muslims living in Spain, just casual mentions amidst constant archeological randomness.

[@matts4025]

The Moops

[@phaines9]

Nope I'm sorry, it's the Moops😂

[@destonlee2838]

Double stuffed Graves mid road on market street. in My money is on pandemic burials..

[@underworldclassicz3857]

The moors are black 😅

[@Moorish_01]

Never were broski . There is difference between us North Africans and what you think west africans ana subsaharans. Education is free

[@underworldclassicz3857]

@@Moorish_01 Nobel drew Ali isn’t black ?

[@Moorish_01]

@@underworldclassicz3857 he is black lol. He is a west African who was sold on trans Atlantic slave trade “unfortunate” to American white owners. He has no connections to us other than appropriating us because we recognized American as a country’ America then said any moor “moroccan” is honored in the land. So many of you started claiming to be us by reading or pretending to be a Muslim “sitting Quran” oh snd those who did were freed from us. Drew ali claims to be a prophet too lol. Stop shaming yourselves and be proud of your west African heritage and leave us alone

[@leegundlach391]

Black muslim moors

[@bigcoop3717]

The Moors looked like so called Black Americans

[@ivankrasimirov6476]

The Moors саstrated the ones who looked like Tyrone and Glocktavious and made them the сheapest slаves on the market hahahahaha

[@bigcoop3717]

@@ivankrasimirov6476 Buddy, your people were servants and concubines to the Moors.

[@Lacteagalaxia]

Son todos ingleses? espero que no se lleven nada de lo que encuentren como paso entre muchos otros con el saqueo de los frisos del Partenon🤣🤣🤣

[@davefellhoelter1343]

"BUD LIGHT" commercials at the Start? That IS FUNNY!! SORRY Me "NO LIKE!"

[@ProudFilthyCasual]

Channels don't choose the commercials that play on their channels dork. That's on KZbin.

[@alanwilson6367]

It’s not the moors. It’s the moops. The moops I tell ya.😅😅😅😅