The european instrusion

European powers , struggling against the Ottomans in the Mediterranean and the Barbary pirates , taking advantage of the weakening of the Kingdom of Morocco to sign trade agreements to their advantage: France in 1767 , and the United Kingdom in 1792 get the free passage of the Straits of Gibraltar and freedom of trade. The French occupation of Algiers in 1830 , causing a nationalist...

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history of Morocco

1 . the origins  Morocco is rich in Paleolithic remains ( pebble , Acheulean bifaces , Mousterian facies ) , including specific tips Aterian of North Africa ( until about 10 000 years) and the Sahara.The people who settled shortly after in the region are probably native to Europe and Asia, and give birth to the ancestors of the Berbers . We know little about these people, whose...

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