Blog #2 Hello! Welcome back to my blog! Today I am going to share with you some pretty interesting knowledge about Morocco, which is where my service trip will take place. Let's set the stage to around 1000 BC when a group of people known as the Phoenicians came to the land where Morocco would soon come to be. The Phoenicians were very good at trading and started to set up trading posts. Soon, this began to attract many people from across the country and the Phoenicians started to grow as a city. This city was called Carthage, which is near modern-day Tunisia. Unfortunately about 800 years later, the Romans came in and ended up conquering Carthage! A while later, Arabs took over and introduced the religion and the culture of Islam. Once again, Morocco was conquered in the 11th century by a group known as the Berbers. Many diverse groups battled over the leadership of Morocco for quite a while, 4 centuries around 1727 to be exact, a
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