Euros such as Napoleon said: “Africa begins in the Pyrenees” simply because of the Afrikan domination of Europe such as the Moors. Before the 711 Moors other groups of Afrikans ruled Europe such as the group under the leadership of Batrikus & prior to that....

...Pharaoh Sesostris led an army northward overland to Asia Minor, then fought his way westward until he crossed into Europe, where he defeated the Scythians and Thracians (possibly in modern Romania and Bulgaria).

The Afrikans (Moors) didn’t only lift Europe out of the Dark Ages through Literacy &Arts (Classical Music is Afrikan) Renaissance but also introduced the Scientific Renaissance. The Spanish translated the manuscripts from which your Science textbooks have been written.