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Speaker 1: When Black Moors ran Europe's Golden Age. Welcome to Spain,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Know. It alls to another episode of the

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Speaker 1: most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Network, especially in February.

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Speaker 1: It's entitled I didn't know, Maybe you didn't either, And

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Speaker 1: I've been your pilot this week.

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Speaker 2: Can we been all over the world.

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Speaker 1: If you missed the previous six episodes, get your digital

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Speaker 1: passport and make sure you lock in this season again.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to show how black history has impacted the

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Speaker 1: entire world, not just the United States. And today's episode

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Speaker 1: is the final trip of season five and we end

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Speaker 1: up in Spain to discuss when Black Moors ran.

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Speaker 2: Europe's Golden Age.

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Speaker 1: Matter of fact, when you think Europeans Golden Age, do

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Speaker 1: you even picture black people? I doubt it, and that's

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Speaker 1: on purpose. But before we get into the episode, I've

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Speaker 1: got to give you, I said, I got to give

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Speaker 1: you three of the most useless facts you'll never need, never,

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Speaker 1: not a day in life. First, for over seven hundred years,

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Speaker 1: it was parts of Spain that were ruled by black

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Speaker 1: and a rab Muslims known as the Moors m oo Rs.

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Speaker 1: Your second useless fact Europe's advancements in math, medicine, astronomy,

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Speaker 1: and architecture traced directly back to Moorish Spain.

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Speaker 2: You have black folks talked, then white folk.

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Speaker 1: All of that in addition to stop sleeping with your cattle.

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Speaker 1: That's why you're getting them diseases and stuff and your

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Speaker 1: third useless fact algebra. Hospitals, street lighting, and universities hit

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Speaker 1: Europe through the Golden Age era. But to kick off

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Speaker 1: this episode, do you know what al Anderluce means? My

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Speaker 1: damn sure didn't. I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know, all right,

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Speaker 1: sevent eleven. Not the store with the bomb ass icys.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the year sevent eleven to fourteen ninety

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Speaker 1: two that when Columbus sailed the Ocean blue with much

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Speaker 1: of Spain was part of al Andaluce. Now al Andaluz

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Speaker 1: was a multicultural society. It was led mostly by black

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Speaker 1: and Arab Muslims from North and West Africa. And when

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Speaker 1: I say ran Europe, I mean Forrest Gump ran it.

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Speaker 1: While much of Europe was in what they later called

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Speaker 1: the Dark Ages, Moorage Spain had paved roads, public libraries, universities,

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Speaker 1: advanced surgery, astronomy, charts, algebra, and algorithms. Like the library

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Speaker 1: at Cordoba had four hundred thousand books. At that same time,

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Speaker 1: the largest library in Christian Europe had four hundred books.

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Speaker 2: And know that it is not a typo.

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Speaker 1: Cities like Cordoba were lit at night when London was

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Speaker 1: still tripping over mud.

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Speaker 2: And here's the part that gets erased on purpose.

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Speaker 1: Many of the Moors were visibly black Africans, not servants,

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Speaker 1: not slaves, scholars, architects, rulers, physicians. The word more moor

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Speaker 1: it comes from the Greek marrows, meaning dark. Medieval European

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Speaker 1: art consistently portrayed Mores as black skinned.

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Speaker 2: You can check the royal courts of Portugal.

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Speaker 1: The Pains of Saint Mars, the countless more mhr symbols

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Speaker 1: that's still on European crest today. Europe didn't discover knowledge

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Speaker 1: on its own, it borrowed it. And when the Christian

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Speaker 1: Kingdoms retook Spain in fourteen ninety two, again the same

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Speaker 1: year that Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue, they did two

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Speaker 1: things at once. They rased the Moorish influence and then

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Speaker 1: they rewrote the European history as white only man history

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Speaker 1: is told by the victor. Libraries were burned, mosque were

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Speaker 1: destroyed or converted. Black presence was scrubbed. The Alhambra Palace

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Speaker 1: in Grenada, it's one of the few Moorish structures that

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Speaker 1: they just couldn't bring themselves to destroy. It's now a

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Speaker 1: UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sometimes the irony just writes itself,

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Speaker 1: because if Europe admitted its Golden Age was built by

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Speaker 1: black people, well the racial hierarchy collapses. And you know

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Speaker 1: where I'm going with this. A century after Carter G.

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Speaker 1: Woodson created space to preserve black history, we're still uncovering

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Speaker 1: stories just like this. Woodson knew the danger wasn't ignorance,

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Speaker 1: it was selective memory. If black people are never shown

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Speaker 1: as builders of civilizations, then inequality starts sounding natural.

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Speaker 2: And al Anderlouce proofs it never was.

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Speaker 1: If you learn something in today's episode, I need you

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Speaker 1: to share it friend, to tell a friend, to tell

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Speaker 1: a friend that I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't either, I didn't know. No h