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ROMANS• THE ROMANS BEGAN THEIR CONQUEST

OF THE PENINSULAIN THE YEAR 219 BC. IT ENDED IN THE YEAR 19 BC.

• THE ROMANS INTRODUCED THEIR CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND WAY OF

LIFE TO HISPANIA AND FOUNDER CITIES.

MUSLIMS• IN THE YEAR 711 THE MUSLIMS

FROM THE NORTH OF AFRICA ARRIVED IN SPAIN. THEY CONQUERED ALMOST ALL THE TERRITORYAND CALLED IT AL-ÁNDALUS.

IBERIANS• THE IBERIANS INHABITED THE

EAST AND SOUTH OF THE PENINSULA. THEY WERE FARMERS AND PRACTISED COMMERCE. SCULTURE WAS VERY IMPORTANT IN THEIR CULTURE.

CELTS• THE CELTS ARRIVED IN THE 9TH

CENTURY BC. THEY CAME FROM CENTRAL EUROPE AND SETTLED IN THE NORTH AND CENTRE OF THE PENINSULA. THEY WERE FARMER AND WORKED WITH IRON.

VISIGOTHS• THIS GERMANIC PEOPLE SETTLED

IN HISPANIA IN THE 5TH CENTURY. IN THE 6TH CENTURY THEY FOUNDED A KINGDOM WITH ITS CAPITAL IN TOLEDO. DURING THE ROMANS PERIOD LIFE WAS URBAN AND COMMERCIAL.

CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE

• IN THE YEAR 800, CHARLEMAGNE, KING OF THE FRAKS, CONQUERED LARGE TERRITORIES AND CROWNED HIMSELF EMPEROR. HIS EMPIRE EXTENDED THROUGHOUT CENTRAL EUROPE.

FEUDALISM• AFTER THE DEATH OF

CHARLEMAGNE HIS TERRITORIES REMAINED IN THE HANDS OF NOBLES WHO BECAME FEUDAL LORDS. FEUDAL LORDS WERE NOBLES WERE NOBLES WHO LIVED IN CASTLES, OWNED LAND AND HAD SERFS.

GREEKS •THE ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION LASTED FROM THE 9TH TO THE 3RD CENTURIES BC. THE GREEK WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO HAVE A POLITICAL SYSTEM BASED ON DEMOCRACY.

MESOPOTAMIA• WAS BETWEEN THE TIGRIS AND

EUPHRATES RIVERS IN THE NEAR EAST. THERE WERE IMPORTANT CITIES, LIKE BABYLON, WHERE THE FIRST LAWS WERE WRITTEN.

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