- The King of Morocco was wealthier then Queen Elizabeth and a strong Ally in the Mediterranean
- English people were global citizens in the way that they heard stories of other places and of circumnavigation. Stories of cannibals ran rapid.
- The theater took these stories and told them about the "others "
- play such as the merchant of Venice, show cased a noble moor in morocco
- In this play Shakespeare suggest that even though England does not know much about Morocco but Morocco knows a lot about England
-Morocco controlled the gold reserves of Africa and was symbolized by Shakespear by The Moroccan prince picking the gold casket.
- Morocco was important country to England because they had the Gold
-Morocco only took England seriously after the defeat of the Spanish Armada
- Morocco was at constant war with Spain
- The King sent ambassadors to London,first British Impression of Africa and Islam
- The streets of London were not kind to moors
- Shakespear never uses the word Moroccan
- Moor means black or Muslim
- Hostility towards the "moors" forced Elizabeth to expel them
-Shakespeare explores racism in England in a different setting Venice
- The character Iago and any other white Venetian is hostile and uses racial slurs towards Othello in The play Othello
- Iago believes his blackness is unholy
- Shakespear paints Othello a "moor" as someone with great honor
- Desdemona falls in love with Othello when he is talking about his life story in Africa
- The Mediterranean was a place of warfare, piracy and ship wreck
- Barbary Pirates took captives on the sea and raided the mainland
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