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Iberian Peninsula By: Michael Wheatley Copper Age • • • • 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