Word: moroccans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moroccan situation gave Italy her chance to step into Tripoli, a land filled with a motley crowd of people. There are whites, Arabs, and Negroes composing the chief element of the population, and there are the Bedouins or nomadic Arabs living in the oases which are sprinkled over the desert and around the towns. But these people are hard to civilize and, as much as they hate their Turkish conquerors, they like them better than they do the Christians. The country has always been closed to the civilizing influences which have sometimes been set toward it. It remains a land...