12/08/2022
Who has changed the world the most?
The Berber or Amazigh as they prefer to be called now are people that have been relegated to the background of media events, they have been called arabs. Yet the berbers have been at the origin of many events, either in religion or knowledge, contributing significantly, if not creating elements of human history. They began at the same time as that of other primitive peoples. However, most of them have disappeared into the maze of human history. Curiously, the Berbers are always present and alive. Those who gave them for dead left for the most part while the Amazigh people continued to live and develop on their land and is reappearing and, presumably, regaining their place on the world stage.
Here are some incredible Berbers from North Africa who have changed the world we live in.
- Simon of Cyrene was born in northern Africa in eastern Libya. He was the man compelled by the Romans to carry the cross of Jesus of Nazareth as Jesus was taken to his crucifixion.
- Mark the lybian known as St. Mark born in the city of Cyrene a native of the North Africa. He witnessed the preaching of our Lord in Palestine as well as his passion, he is the author of the earliest Gospel to be written in Greek and the founder of Christianity in Egypt.
- St Augustine was a theologian and philosopher, significant Christian thinker after St. Paul. He created a powerful theological system of lasting influence and helped lay the foundation for much of medieval and modern Christian thought.
- King Juba II king of Mauritania (stretched from central Numidia present-day Algeria westwards to the Atlantic) was the one who has established scientific elements in botany, in writing of the history of several peoples, and some other elements, the the most intelligent of all the kings.
- Septimius Severus the Roman Berber emperor who played an important role in building of the Hadrian’s Wall in the UK.
- Hadrian a Berber cleric arrived at Canterbury, uk in AD 670, he discovered the Anglo-Saxon England wild and semi-pagan. Within a matter of years, he become the driving force behind a remarkable renaissance in teaching, he helped lay the foundations of English culture.
- Finally Leonardo Bonacci an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages, he studied in the city of Bugia, now known as Bgayet or Bejaïa in kabylia in 1202. It was in the marketplace that he observed the use of berber numerals, 0-9. They were so much more efficient than the Roman numerals that dominated Europe.
