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Iberian Peninsula
By: Michael Wheatley
Copper Age
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Also known as the Chalcolithic Age.
A series of complex cultures were developed.
The first civilizations rose.
Widespread exchange networks reaching to the
Baltic, the Middle East, and North Africa were
created.
Bell-Beaker Culture
• The Beaker People intruded into Chalcolithic
Iberia around 2150 BC.
• They created pottery like the one shown to the
right.
Bronze Age
• Early in the first millennium BC, many waves of
Pre-Celts and Celts migrated from central
Europe.
• Partially changing the ethnic landscape of Iberia
into Indo-European space in the northern and
western regions.
Iron Age
• Around 1100 BC, Phoenician merchants created
the trading colony of Gadir or Gades.
• In the 8th century BC, the first Greek colonies,
such as Emporion, were created along the East
on the Mediterranean coast.
• In the 6th century BC, the Carthaginians arrived
in Iberia while struggling with the Greeks for
control of the Western Mediterranean. Their
most important colony was Carthago Nova.
Roman Iberia
• In 219 BC, Roman troops invaded the Iberian
Peninsula, during the Second Punic war against
the Carthaginians.
• They annexed it under Augustus, after two
centuries of war with the Celtic and Iberian
tribes and the Phoenician, Greek and
Carthaginian colonies, resulting in the creation
of the province of Hispania.
Hispania
• During the late Roman
Republic, the Iberian
Peninsula was divided into
Hispania Ulterior and
Hispania Citerior.
• During the Roman Empire, it
was divided into Hispania
Taraconensis in the northeast,
Hispania Baetica in the south,
and Lusitania in the
southwest.
Sources
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_culture