Why Kabyles live in the mountains

[Igu]

Before the 9th century, most of Northwest Africa was a Berber-speaking area. The process of Arabization only became a major factor with the arrival of the Banu Hilal, a tribe sent by the Fatimids of Egypt to punish the Kabyle-Berber Zirid dynasty for having abandoned Shiism. The Banu Hilal reduced the Zirids to a few coastal towns, and took over much of the plains; their influx was a major factor in the Arabization of Northwest Africa, and in the spread of nomadism in areas where agriculture had previously been dominant.

[amksa]

the arab Banu Hilal, when entered in north Africa, destroyed the economical and agricutural system of the Berber of plains, but i don't think this evident fact explains why Berbers live in mountains : anthropologists proved that some Berbers are more adapted to mountains environnement than others... some have a very high level of technique in order to survive in such hard environnement, some don't : i think that mountains always were a human reservoir which populated all North Africa until those days.

[Igu]

Of course There were people living the mountains, I was just explaining why the Kabyle-speaking area is restricted to the Djurdjura mountains. In the 9th century it was 10 times wider...

[amksa]

igu said:

Of course There were people living the mountains, I was just explaining why the Kabyle-speaking area is restricted to the Djurdjura mountains. In the 9th century it was 10 times wider...

j'avais compris, t'inquiètes pas, Igu, i was just pointing out that Banu Hilal limited their incursions to plains and not to mountains which were/are a human reservoir : there is here a strange paradox... the more moroccan cities are populated by people who left mountains (Berbers) to modern cities, the more the country become arabized though, this is something i can't understand : genetically a country like Morocco become more and more Berber, but not linguistically.