Moroccan History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Morocco with the correct year: The Saadi dynasty then ruled Morocco from the 16th to the 17th century, followed by the Alawi dynasty from ______ onward.
  2. Complete the sentence about Almoravid dynasty with the correct year: During their expansion into the Maghreb, they founded the city of Marrakesh as a capital, c. ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Almoravid dynasty with the correct year: Almoravid power in al-Andalus began to decline after the loss of Zaragoza in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Almoravid dynasty with the correct year: Al-Bakri, writing in ______, before their apex, already calls them the al-Murabitun, but does not clarify the reasons for it.
  5. Complete the sentence about Almohad Caliphate with the correct year: Under Abd al-Mu'min, the Almohads overthrew the Almoravids, captured Marrakesh in ______, and established control over the western…
  6. Complete the sentence about Almohad Caliphate with the correct year: In North Africa, revolts by tribes and districts weakened Almohad authority and facilitated the rise of the Marinids from ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Almohad Caliphate with the correct year: The last Almohad ruler, Idris al-Wathiq, was ultimately reduced to Marrakesh, where he was killed in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Saadi dynasty with the correct year: After Muhammad al-Shaykh's assassination by the Ottomans in ______ his son Abdallah al-Ghalib enjoyed a relatively peaceful reign.
  9. Complete the sentence about Saadi dynasty with the correct year: While the Saadian realm was reunified at the end of the conflict in ______, new factions in the region rose to challenge Saadian author…
  10. Complete the sentence about Saadi dynasty with the correct year: The last Saadian sultan, Ahmad al-Abbas, was assassinated in ______, bringing the dynasty to an end.
  11. Complete the sentence about Saadi dynasty with the correct year: Moulay al-Rashid later conquered Marrakesh in ______ and led the 'Alawi dynasty to establish a new sultanate over Morocco.
  12. Complete the sentence about Alaouite dynasty with the correct year: The dynasty rose to power in the 17th century, beginning with Mawlay al-Sharif who was declared sultan of the Tafilalt in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Alaouite dynasty with the correct year: The 'Alawis ruled as sovereign sultans up until ______, when the French protectorate and Spanish protectorate were imposed on Morocc…
  14. Complete the sentence about Alaouite dynasty with the correct year: When the country regained its independence in ______, Mohammed V, who had supported the nationalist cause, resumed the 'Alawi role a…
  15. Complete the sentence about Alaouite dynasty with the correct year: Shortly afterwards, in ______, he adopted the title of "King" instead of "Sultan".
  16. Complete the sentence about Ahmad al-Mansur with the correct year: In ______, Ahmad's brother, Sultan Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I, died in battle against the Portuguese army at Ksar-el-Kebir.
  17. Complete the sentence about Ahmad al-Mansur with the correct year: In ______, he sent his Secretary Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud as ambassador to the Court of Queen Elizabeth I of England to negotiate a…
  18. Complete the sentence about Battle of Alcácer Quibir with the correct year: Sebastian felt driven to revive lost glories by intervening in North Africa, influenced by the events such as the defense of…
  19. Complete the sentence about Battle of Alcácer Quibir with the correct year: Accordingly, in ______, the kingdom began to prepare for intervention in Morocco.
  20. Complete the sentence about Battle of Alcácer Quibir with the correct year: Upon the death of Sultan Abdallah al-Ghalib in ______ his son Muhammad II al-Mutawakkil inherited the throne, but two years…
  21. Complete the sentence about Battle of Alcácer Quibir with the correct year: Abd al-Malik had travelled to Istanbul in ______ and secured Ottoman support from the Sultan there himself.
  22. Complete the sentence about Battle of Alcácer Quibir with the correct year: After haranguing his troops from the windows of the Church of Santa Maria in Lagos, Sebastian departed that port in his arma…
  23. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The site had been chosen and work started by Abu Bakr in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Yusuf ibn Tashfin with the correct year: The Taifa period followed the demise of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur with the correct year: Al-Mansur's father was killed in Portugal on 29 July ______; upon reaching Seville with his father's body on 10 August, he…
  26. Complete the sentence about Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa with the correct year: In ______, the Almohads defeated Alfonso VIII of Castile in the Battle of Alarcos.
  27. Complete the sentence about Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa with the correct year: News of the loss spread throughout Christendom, and in late ______ Alfonso began organizing a major campaign, seeking a…
  28. Complete the sentence about Battle of Alarcos with the correct year: In ______, Almohad caliph al-Mansur traveled from North Africa to al-Andalus to invade Portugal, which had captured the city of Sil…
  29. Complete the sentence about Battle of Alarcos with the correct year: After a campaign of approximately 15 months, al-Mansur successfully recaptured the city in July ______ and then proceeded to return…
  30. Complete the sentence about Battle of Alarcos with the correct year: At the expiration of the truce in ______, Alfonso decided to invade Almohad territory in southern al-Andalus including the Guadalqu…
  31. Complete the sentence about Reconquista with the correct year: The Reconquista concluded in ______ with the capture of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, thereby ending the presence of any Mus…
  32. Complete the sentence about Reconquista with the correct year: After the surrender of Granada in January ______, the entire Iberian peninsula was controlled by Christian rulers.
  33. Complete the sentence about French protectorate in Morocco with the correct year: The protectorate lasted until after World War II with the dissolution of the Treaty of Fez on 2 March ______, with the…
  34. Complete the sentence about French protectorate in Morocco with the correct year: Relations improved once the last French troops left Morocco in November ______, with France remaining Morocco's main t…
  35. Complete the sentence about French protectorate in Morocco with the correct year: Germany took immediate diplomatic action to block the new accord from going into effect, including the dramatic visit…
  36. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the Algeciras Conference was held to settle the dispute.
  37. Complete the sentence about Spanish protectorate in Morocco with the correct year: The northern zone became part of independent Morocco on 7 April ______, shortly after France relinquished its protect…
  38. Complete the sentence about Spanish protectorate in Morocco with the correct year: Spain finally ceded its southern zone through the Treaty of Angra de Cintra on 1 April ______, after the short Ifni W…
  39. Complete the sentence about Spanish protectorate in Morocco with the correct year: France began negotiating with Spain at once, but the offer of ______ was no longer on the table.
  40. Complete the sentence about Spanish protectorate in Morocco with the correct year: Since France had given up its ambitions in Ottoman Libya in a convention with Italy in ______, it felt entitled to a…
  41. Complete the sentence about Spanish protectorate in Morocco with the correct year: On 3 October ______, France and Spain concluded a treaty that defined their precise zones.
  42. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Fez with the correct year: In June ______, France bailed out the Makhzen with 62.5 million franks, guaranteed by a portion of customs revenue.
  43. Complete the sentence about Algeciras Conference with the correct year: The Algeciras Conference of ______ took place in Algeciras, Spain, and lasted from 16 January to 7 April.
  44. Complete the sentence about Algeciras Conference with the correct year: Following its failed attempt to isolate Britain, Germany furthered the growing Anglo-German Naval Race by the passage of the Thi…
  45. Complete the sentence about Rif War with the correct year: In July ______, some Riffians attacked Spanish workers constructing a rail-bridge to provide access to iron mines near Melilla.
  46. Complete the sentence about Rif War with the correct year: The military operations in Jebala, in the Moroccan west, began in ______ with the Larache landing.
  47. Complete the sentence about Rif War with the correct year: By ______, the area had been pacified; Abd-el-Krim surrendered to the French that year, and Spain gained effective control of the protectorat…
  48. Complete the sentence about Abd el-Krim with the correct year: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim was born in ______ in the settlement of Ajdir, Morocco.
  49. Complete the sentence about Abd el-Krim with the correct year: In a ______ interview with the weekly Akher Saa, Abd el-Krim defined himself as an ethnic Berber.
  50. Complete the sentence about Abd el-Krim with the correct year: Early in his career, he was designated in an ______ document as "Abd al-Karim b.
  51. Complete the sentence about Abd el-Krim with the correct year: Abd el-Krim entered the Spanish administration first as a secretary in the Bureau of Native Affairs, and he was later appointed chief qad…
  52. Complete the sentence about Republic of the Rif with the correct year: Following the war's end, the Republic was ultimately dissolved in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Republic of the Rif with the correct year: The French and Spanish empires both colonized Morocco, and in ______ the Treaty Between France and Spain Regarding Morocco establ…
  54. Complete the sentence about Republic of the Rif with the correct year: In June ______, Spanish troops occupied Larache and Ksar el-Kebir.
  55. Complete the sentence about Republic of the Rif with the correct year: The Spanish had faced unrest off and on from the 1890s, but in ______ Spanish colonial troops were massacred at the Battle of Ann…
  56. Complete the sentence about Istiqlal Party with the correct year: The party emerged on 10 December ______ during the anti-colonial struggle against French and Spanish imperial rule, making it the olde…
  57. Complete the sentence about Istiqlal Party with the correct year: In August ______, activists from Salé, Rabat, Tetouan and Fes formed the Zawiya a steering committee composed of the most important na…
  58. Complete the sentence about Mohammed V of Morocco with the correct year: Muhammad was enthroned as sultan upon the death of his father Yusef bin Hassan in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Mohammed V of Morocco with the correct year: In ______, he successfully negotiated with France and Spain for Moroccan independence, and in the following year he assumed the…
  60. Complete the sentence about Mohammed V of Morocco with the correct year: Muhammad died in ______ at the age of 51 and was succeeded by his eldest son, who took the throne as Hassan II.
  61. Complete the sentence about Mohammed V of Morocco with the correct year: Sidi Muhammad bin Yusef was born on 10 August ______ in Fes to Sultan Yusef of Morocco and Lalla Yacout, and was his father's t…
  62. Complete the sentence about Hassan II of Morocco with the correct year: Hassan died in Rabat on 23 July ______ and was succeeded by his eldest son, Mohammed VI.
  63. Complete the sentence about Mohammed VI of Morocco with the correct year: Mohammed was born on 21 August ______, as the first child and eldest son of King Hassan II and his wife, Lalla Latifa.
  64. Complete the sentence about Green March with the correct year: The Spanish government was preparing to abandon the territory as part of the decolonization of Africa, just as it had granted independenc…
  65. Complete the sentence about Western Sahara conflict with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the Polisario Front, backed and supported by Algeria, waged a 16-year-long war for independence against…
  66. Complete the sentence about Western Sahara conflict with the correct year: In ______, France intervened as the conflict reached its peak intensity.
  67. Complete the sentence about Western Sahara conflict with the correct year: In ______, Mauritania withdrew from the conflict and territories, leading to a stalemate through most of the 1980s.
  68. Complete the sentence about MINURSO with the correct year: In ______, the Houston Agreement was supposed to restart the process, but again failed.
  69. Complete the sentence about Sand War with the correct year: A formal peace treaty was eventually signed on February 20, ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Sand War with the correct year: The conflict ended with the annexation of the Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt complex by France in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Years of Lead with the correct year: The most clear sign of change was the ______ constitution, which created the House of Councilors alongside granting some rights and fre…
  72. Complete the sentence about Equity and Reconciliation Commission with the correct year: In ______, Morocco gained independence from France, becoming a free nation.
  73. Complete the sentence about Equity and Reconciliation Commission with the correct year: While Mohammed V only ruled for five years before his death in ______, his son, King Hassan II came to power wit…
  74. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Morocco with the correct year: The first Constitution of Morocco was adopted in ______, 6 years after the country regained independence.
  75. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Morocco with the correct year: The Majlis al-Ayane was dissolved in ______ following the Treaty of Fez, which established the French Protectorate.
  76. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Morocco with the correct year: From ______, under the initiative of Resident General Erik Labonne and Sultan Mohammed V, consultative assemblies were created…
  77. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Morocco with the correct year: The first Moroccan Constitution, adopted in ______, established a bicameral parliament composed of the House of Representatives…
  78. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Morocco with the correct year: The ______ Constitution introduced a unicameral system, which was later reversed.
  79. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Morocco with the correct year: Since 29 September ______, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri has been Prime Minister.
  80. Complete the sentence about Abdelilah Benkirane with the correct year: After the PJD won the largest number of seats in the ______ general election, Benkirane was appointed Head of Government by King…
  81. Complete the sentence about Abdelilah Benkirane with the correct year: Following the ______ election, the PJD again won the largest number of seats, and Benkirane was designated to form a government.
  82. Complete the sentence about Abdelilah Benkirane with the correct year: Abdelilah Benkirane was born on 4 April ______ in the al-Akkari neighborhood of Rabat.
  83. Complete the sentence about Abdelilah Benkirane with the correct year: After obtaining his degree, Benkirane was appointed as a physics teacher at the École Normale Supérieure in Rabat in ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Aziz Akhannouch with the correct year: Akhannouch was born in ______ in Aguerd Oudad, a village near Tafraout.
  85. Complete the sentence about Aziz Akhannouch with the correct year: In ______, Akhannouch graduated from the Université de Sherbrooke with a management diploma.
  86. Complete the sentence about Aziz Akhannouch with the correct year: In ______, he was ranked 12th on Forbes's annual list of Africa's wealthiest billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.
  87. Complete the sentence about Abderrahmane Youssoufi with the correct year: Born in Tangier, Youssoufi was a socialist from a young age, dedicating himself to organizing the working class of Casablanca…
  88. Complete the sentence about Abderrahmane Youssoufi with the correct year: In ______, Youssoufi was one of the founders of the National Union of Popular Forces, a left-wing political party.
  89. Complete the sentence about Abderrahmane Youssoufi with the correct year: In ______, he co-founded the Arab Organization for Human Rights along with Egyptian sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim and French…
  90. Complete the sentence about National Rally of Independents with the correct year: Following the ______ legislative elections, a parliamentary group comprising 167 deputies without political affiliatio…
  91. Complete the sentence about National Rally of Independents with the correct year: Ahmed Osman was ousted in April ______ following a power struggle led by part of the political bureau, which was dissa…
  92. Complete the sentence about Bank Al-Maghrib with the correct year: In ______, the Moroccan government commenced negotiations with France and the State Bank of Morocco to reclaim for itself the right t…
  93. Complete the sentence about Bank Al-Maghrib with the correct year: Decree n° 1.59.233 of 30 June ______ created the Banque du Maroc, which took over the issuance of money the next day, and replaced th…
  94. Complete the sentence about Bank Al-Maghrib with the correct year: The Banking Act of 21 April ______ enhanced the role of "Banque du Maroc", particularly in the field of banking supervision.
  95. Complete the sentence about Bank Al-Maghrib with the correct year: In ______, the Banque du Maroc commenced issuing the centime as a fraction of the dirham, replacing the franc.
  96. Complete the sentence about Bank Al-Maghrib with the correct year: A new banking act in July ______ created a unified regulatory framework for all credit institutions in Morocco.
  97. Complete the sentence about Royal Moroccan Armed Forces with the correct year: The Moroccan army has existed continuously since ______ during the rise of the Almoravid Empire in the 11th century.
  98. Complete the sentence about Royal Moroccan Armed Forces with the correct year: Four years later, the Royal Moroccan Navy was established in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Royal Moroccan Navy with the correct year: The history of the modern Royal Moroccan Navy began in ______ with its foundation by King Mohammed V.
  100. Complete the sentence about Moroccan Sahara with the correct year: The Madrid Accords, ratified just 12 days after the Green March, stipulated that Spain would exit Western Sahara by February 28, ____…

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