Re: [nukkad] Serfing Quiz : 1

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

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On 3/26/08, Ravi Menon  wrote:
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> I believe the Portuguese and Arabs traded on the East coast of Africa? and
> the slaves in the US came from the West coast, with the Arab slaves coming
> from East Africa.
> Most Sudanese - both Men and Women - carry facial scars which are tribal
> markings, to identify the tribe in case they were kidnapped to be returned
> home safely.
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   The west coast of Africa being at stone throw distance from Portugal,
they had good
   presence there. So were Arabs settled on the west coast for their Maghrib
empire once
   extended right to the gates of western Morocco and Gibraltor. Although
the Maghrib
   was broken up at the time we are talking about and the vast Arab lands of
north and
   north western Africa had fallen to the imperial designs of the Europeans,
namely,
   Spanish, French and Italian, the local population was always almost
entirely Arab
  Muslims, except perhaps to some extent Mauritania. Thus Arabs too like the
Portugese
  had their naval and trading posts on the western African sea board.

  Rohit Zaveri



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