EARLY HISTORY

UNIT 11

Paleolitic period Neolitic period Ancient History

Timeline

PALEOLITIC PERIOD NEOLITIC PERIOD

NomadsLived in clansHunted wild animalsCollected wild plants to eatLived in tents and cavesDiscovered fire

SedentaryFarmersLived in tribesGrew cropsDomesticated animalsInvented the wheelUsed metals

They made toolsThey used fireThey lived in groups

PREHISTORY

PALEOLITHIC IN SPAIN

ALTAMIRAATAPUERCA

Some of the humans remains found there are overEight hundred thousand years old

Ancient Greece

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Rome

The ancient civilisations

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Ancient Greece

Mesopotamia Egypt Greece

Ziggurat – important building, often a temple.The most important cities were Ur and Babylon.It was on fertile land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.

Pharaoh – a kingPyramids – tombs for the Pharaohs.It was next to the river Nile.They had many gods and believed in the afterlive.They mummified dead bodies.

It was on the Greek peninsula.They built acropolises.They started Olympic games. They introduced Democracy.They believed in many gods.They developed literature, architecture, theatre, sculpture and philosophy.

The ancient civilisations

EMPEROR

PATRICIANS

PLEBEIANS

SLAVES

The Roman society

The EMPEROR controlled the Roman Empire.

The PATRICIANS were a smal group of very rich, powerful families

who lived in beautiful houses.

The PLEBEIANS were farmers, traders, shop owners and

craftworkers.

They lived in smal homes.

They had to pay money to the Emperor and go to the war

when the Emperor needed them.

The SLAVES did the hard work onthe farms, in the mines and in the

houses of the rich.

They were captured in the wars.

The Roman society

THE ANCIENT WORLD IN SPAIN

IBERIANS CELTS PHOENICIANSLived in the south and east.In stone-walled settlements on the hills.Rectangular houses built with stone, mud or straw.Grew crops and raised livestock.Skilled metalworkers.Used metal coins to trade.

Lived in the centre and north.In stone-walled settlements on the hills.Circular houses both people and animals.Grew crops and raised livestock.Formed more rural populations.Didn´t trade.

Came from The Eastern Mediterranean.Most important settlement in Cádiz.Great traders

Came from Greece.Most important settlement in Ampurias

Came from North Africa.Most important settlement in Cartagena and Ibiza.

GREEKS

CARTHAGINIANS

crops

livestock

metal

urban

circular

trade

Celts & iberians

THE ROMANS IN SPAIN

They called Hispania.

Positive things

Latin language: people could understand each other.

Roman law: they were the same everywhere for eveyone.

Calendar: it has weeks and months and is still used today.

New agriculture techniques: irrigation.

Architectural techniques: aqueducts, amphitheatres and

roads.

Heating and sewage systems.

The introduction of Christianity.

They exported wheat, olive oil, wine, salt, cloth, gold,

silver and iron.

Hadrian and Trajan were Spanish Emperors.

Romanisation was the process when conquered people slowly

adopted the Roman way of life.