First, the Berbers migrated to Morocco around the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. They were thought to have originated in Asia. Later, the Greeks and Phoenicians devised trading ports on the cost of Morocco, until the Romans conquered. While the Romans were in power, many of the Berbers rebelled and the reaction of the Romans was to cut out their tongues and ship them off to the Canary Islands, where they were later found by the Spanish. The Carthaginians were also in Morocco before the Romans. After the Roman Empire fell, a Germanic tribe called the Vandals took over briefly. Muslims from the Middle East then took over and and carried out raids in the Taza Gap eventually converted the country to Islam by 710. In 711, Iberia called for help from
