THREE CIVILIZATIONS IN IBERIAN PENINSULA.PHOENICIANS, GREEKS AND CARTHAGINIANS.

PHOENICIANS (FENICIOS)

They came from Near East.

They founded cities like Gadir and Malaka.

They were excellent metalworkers, navigators and glassproducers.

They traded with metal, for example: gold, silver, copper, iron, etc.

5. They traded with the Iberians and they showed them how to look for minerals and work with metals.

6. They brought their alphabet to the rest of Iberian Peninsula.

THE GREEKS.

1. They founded cities like Rhode and Emporion.

2. They had their own currency.

3. They came to Iberian Peninsula to look for food, metals and to trade with products.

4. They were excellent sculptors and architects. They built the Parthenon in Athens.

Discobolus by Mirn

Venus by Milo

5. They believed in many gods.

6.They invented the Olympic Games.

THE CARTHAGINIANS (LOS CARTAGINESES)

They came from Cartago in North Africa.

They founded Cartago Nova (Cartagena)

Hannibal was a very important general in Cartago.He went from Iberian Peninsula to Italy with an army that included some elephants. He defeated the Romans there.