Why are there so many black people in Saudi Arabia?

Because they were black slaves who were sold in the Middle Ages, although slavery was abolished in 1962, there were still a large number of African blacks who spoke Arabic and believed in Islam in some cities and oases.

/kloc-In the 5th century, European colonists began to sell slaves in America. After the opening of the new air route, it was even worse. European countries began to colonize and plunder, set up plantations and treated Indians as slaves. Not only that, but also mass slaughter of slaves, resulting in a sharp decline in population, unable to provide labor for plantations, and opened a slave trade that sold a large number of black slaves.

In Saudi Arabia, the sale and slavery of blacks was earlier and lasted longer. Although there is no such trade now, black people who used to be slaves got married and had children here, leaving their descendants to live here.

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The establishment of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia was founded in the middle of Arabian Peninsula in 1750. The local king Mohammed bin Saud and the Islamic reformer Mohammad Abd al-wahab established a new regime.

During the following 150 years, the influence of the Saudi Arabian family fluctuated from time to time. In order to compete for the control of the peninsula, it constantly clashed with Egypt (actually a semi-independent part of the Ottoman Empire) and the Ottoman Empire, and lost power twice. Modern Saudi Arabia was founded by King Abdul Aziz bin abdul rahman Al Saud.

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