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There have been quite a number of conquests in the Maghreb and Libya.

Probably the most transformative conquest was that of the Arab Islamic Caliphate in the 7th century. These Caliphates changed North Africa from a Roman area populated predominantly by Christian or Donatist (a Christian Heretical Group) individuals who considered themselves ethnic Amazigh (Berbers) to Arab-identifying Muslims. Amazigh Languages and Latin were sublimated to Arabic, conversions to Islam became more and more routine, and ethnic Amazigh who refused to assimilate where exiled to the mountainous areas (like the Atlas Mountain range in Morocco and Algeria) or the inhospitable inland deserts (like the Sahara). Most things about modern culture in Libya and the Maghreb, like language, where cities are located, the cultural disposition and centrality of Islam all track back to this conquest.

Another conquest that has a transformative effect was that of the European Colonizers. In the case of the Maghreb, French influence was instrumental in creating a more erudite upper-crust, especially in Morocco and Tunisia, and resulting in the end of political inequality for Non-Muslims. In Algeria, the latter resulted in Algerian Jews choosing French citizenship over a place in Algerian society. In the case of Libya, Italian colonization forced the various tribes of Cyrenaica, Fezzan and Tripolitania to exist under one non-responsive government, creating the tribal animosity that is a hallmark of modern Libyan Politics.

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