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The ancestors of the Tunisians occupied a territory strategically located between the western and eastern Mediterranean at the narrowest point on the way north to Europe

Moroccans have been the terminus of the populations that began expanding out of the Near East with the rise of agriculture, foragers, farmers and pastoralists following

The climate, flora, and fauna of much of North Africa, especially its mountainous northwest fringe in the coastal zones of the modern states of Morocco, Algeria, and

Foraging and farming across the territory of the world’s largest rainforest that girdles the world’s most powerful river, the Amazon, the ancestors of modern Amazonians

Though humans arrived in the New World more than 15,000 years ago, much of the Caribbean was occupied only in the last 6,000 years. We know this because

Due to their position between the broad and expansive continents of North and South America, Central Americans have been genetically affected by movements

Here, the biological advantages of Andrean people at high altitudes meant that these indigenous people were never replaced or assimilated, and the Spaniards remained

Today we know the Basque likely are some of the purest continental descendants of the Anatolian farmers who expanded west more than 9,000 years ago

Due to its proximity to West Africa, the Canarians also absorbed African slaves over the next few centuries. Despite its isolation in the eastern Atlantic

Castile and Castilians have always been the center of things by virtue of their geography. Recipients of migration from the east and north, after 700 AD Castile

The Aragonese are the people of northeast Spain and have been helpmates with Castilians in creating their New World empire, but for much of its history up until 1714 AD the Crown of Castile has been distinct from the Crown of Aragon, both inherited from their late medieval rulers, Isabelle and Ferdinand

The northwest of the Iberian Peninsula is home to Galicians, with nearly 3 million living there. The Galicians are a people who have origins in the second wave of Celtic tribes who invaded Spain from Britain and other parts of Western Europe. This occurred around 400 BC, when these tribes crossed the Pyrenees mountains.

The people of Extremadura, caught between the Portuguese and their Castilian overlords, were not gifted by nature with a bounteous land but had to rely on their