๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco ยท ุงูู ุบุฑุจ (al-Maghrib)
Rome's furthest south-western city, the oldest continuously operating university in the world, and four imperial capitals built in red pisรฉ and green tile. Morocco's medinas have barely changed plan in eight hundred years โ which is exactly what makes them hard to date.
Morocco's collection needs 3 more rounds before it opens. These are live today.
Morocco is Atlantic coast, Atlas mountains and desert behind them, with imperial cities in the plains between. The building materials sort the scene fast: rammed red earth inland, whitewash and blue on the coast, cedar and zellij tile in the great monuments.
Architecture
Rammed-earth walls with square towers and no windows at ground level are pisรฉ kasbahs and ksour, southern valleys, any century. Square minarets โ not round โ are Maghrebi and Andalusi, 1100 onwards. Geometric zellij mosaic with carved stucco and cedar is Marinid, 1250โ1450. White Art Deco with Moorish arches is Casablanca, 1920โ1940.
Landscape
Palm groves in a valley under red cliffs are the Draa or Dades. Snow on peaks above an argan-and-olive plain means the High Atlas from Marrakesh. Blue-painted lanes on a steep hillside are Chefchaouen in the Rif.
Period tells
French signage and wide boulevards outside a walled medina are Protectorate, 1912โ1956 โ the new towns were deliberately built next to, not inside, the old ones. Satellite dishes on medina roofs are post-1995. Roman mosaic in situ means Volubilis or Lixus.
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that Moroccans can nail and everyone else has to work out.
Near Meknes, Zerhoun hillsAncient world
Olive presses, mosaics and a triumphal arch at the edge of Roman Africa, abandoned to earthquakes and reuse.
Fez el-BaliMedieval
Fatima al-Fihri endowed a mosque and teaching institution that has never stopped operating since.
MarrakeshMedieval
The Almohad prototype โ the same design was built again in Seville as the Giralda and in Rabat as the Hassan Tower.
Ksar el-KebirEarly modern
Three kings died in one afternoon; Portugal lost its dynasty and its independence for sixty years.
Anfa, CasablancaModern era
Roosevelt and Churchill met in a requisitioned hotel and announced the demand for unconditional surrender.
Moroccan history touches ancient & classical, medieval & renaissance and the 20th century. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own โ the same centuries, but questions drawn from every country in the library, so you find out whether you can date the rest of the period as confidently as you can date Morocco.
Ancient & classical
Moroccan moment here: Volubilis at its height (200).
Medieval & Renaissance
Moroccan moments here: Al-Qarawiyyin founded (859), The Koutoubia minaret finished (1195), The Battle of the Three Kings (1578).
20th century
Moroccan moment here: The Casablanca Conference (1943).
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath โ cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.Volubilis at its height โ what year?
Answer200
Olive presses, mosaics and a triumphal arch at the edge of Roman Africa, abandoned to earthquakes and reuse.
2.Al-Qarawiyyin founded โ what year?
Answer859
Fatima al-Fihri endowed a mosque and teaching institution that has never stopped operating since.
3.The Koutoubia minaret finished โ what year?
Answer1195
The Almohad prototype โ the same design was built again in Seville as the Giralda and in Rabat as the Hassan Tower.
4.The Battle of the Three Kings โ what year?
Answer1578
Three kings died in one afternoon; Portugal lost its dynasty and its independence for sixty years.
5.The Casablanca Conference โ what year?
Answer1943
Roosevelt and Churchill met in a requisitioned hotel and announced the demand for unconditional surrender.
6.Which came first in Morocco โ Volubilis at its height or Al-Qarawiyyin founded?
AnswerVolubilis at its height, in 200.
Al-Qarawiyyin founded follows in 859, 659 years later.
7.Which came first in Morocco โ the Koutoubia minaret finished or the Battle of the Three Kings?
AnswerThe Koutoubia minaret finished, in 1195.
The Battle of the Three Kings follows in 1578, 383 years later.
8.Where in Morocco would you drop the pin for Volubilis at its height?
AnswerNear Meknes, Zerhoun hills
Olive presses, mosaics and a triumphal arch at the edge of Roman Africa, abandoned to earthquakes and reuse.
9.Where in Morocco would you drop the pin for Al-Qarawiyyin founded?
AnswerFez el-Bali
Fatima al-Fihri endowed a mosque and teaching institution that has never stopped operating since.
10.How far apart are the oldest and newest Moroccan moments in this collection?
Answer1,743 years
From Volubilis at its height in 200 to the Casablanca Conference in 1943.
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment โ "Volubilis at its height, Near Meknes, Zerhoun hills" โ and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360ยฐ scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
One line is enough โ an event, a place, a year you half-remember. Or let the AI draft five moments around a theme.
Step 2
The year, the exact coordinates and a one-sentence factoid come back filled in. Everything stays editable.
Step 3
A 4K 360ยฐ panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
๐ฒ๐ฆ Put your own scene on /play/morocco
Credits cover the AI: 1 to auto-fill a moment, 3 to draft five at once, 25 for each 4K panorama. Your map stays yours โ you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Moments Moroccans want to see in the game. Vote them up โ the top of this list gets built next.
Each round drops you into a 360ยฐ scene from Morocco's past. Look around for clues โ architecture, clothing, technology, landscape โ then place the scene on the world map and pick the year. You score up to 5,000 points a round: closer in distance and closer in time both pay. Five rounds make a game.
No. You can play Moroccan rounds straight away with no sign-up. Signing in saves your XP, keeps your character progressing through history, and puts you on the leaderboards.
The collection spans 200 to 1943 โ from volubilis at its height through to the casablanca conference. New moments are added as the community suggests them.
Yes, completely free. There is no paywall on rounds, the daily challenge, or the leaderboards.
Yes โ that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment Moroccans would recognise instantly, like volubilis at its height. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360ยฐ rounds and credited on the page.
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