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Old 5th August 2017, 11:27 AM   #1
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Where? Peru? Chile?
Because America is not the United States of America, but a continent with many countries. Despite their name, the US do not agglutinate those countries, neither represent them.
Neither the US are situaded in the South West of Continent; i am afraid i don't get it .
Ibrahiim, could you precise the country or give us a link to that article ?
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Neither the US are situaded in the South West of Continent; i am afraid i don't get it .
Ibrahiim, could you precise the country or give us a link to that article ?
I forget the name of the author but ...like many stories around the campfire it is normal to take some with a pinch of salt or It was said that sort of acceptance...As it happens I have the book at home and it fulfills a good role as a door stop. The region which I remember in America was in Southern Colorado with apologies to anyone who may have shot off with their exploration equipment to Peru or Cuba...or.... ... but anyway archaeologists had a heyday refuting the alphabet links...
I would have answered earlier but I didnt know what agglutinate meant! I thought it was medicine for my horse in the advent of Colic !!
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Relevant here is the Jewish connection in Morocco at al....The Mediterranean being a hotbed of artisans of Jewish faith...Since what we are interested in is sword smithing...the likelihood of technology transfer / design switch and the eventual morphing to the Moroccan Nimcha form. Naturally with all the upheaval in Iberian quarters with their expulsion it is noted ~

Quote''Regarding the Atlas Mountains ..."The Jews appear as a group, specializing in trading and crafts, which is ritually and socially separated from the Moslems, who specialize in agriculture... The Jews are non-combatants, not being allowed to carry arms. Yet in their role as smiths, they are responsible for making and repairing arms."

Thus we come to the realization that the ancient North African guns, knives and swords of exquisite workmanship, weapons whose hand-wrought and tooled metals were engraved with elaborate patterns or inlaid with mother-of-pearl, the very weapons that now command high prices on the antiques market, are not of Arabic provenance at all but were produced by Judaic smiths! And that is not all!

"[Jewish] blacksmiths fan charcoal fires and create useful tools; hammers, axes, hatchets, scythes, plows, and all the other tools required by the people of the region. They also repair weapons. These artisan’s shops are in the entrances of their homes. The Berber who needs any tool will bring the metal and the charcoal to the Jew’s house."Unquote.

See also http://www.hebrewhistory.info/factpa...017-1_gold.htm
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