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Iberian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula. By: Bailey Pinkston. Cultures - 3000 B.C. Different complex cultures began to develop. This would lead to the first civilizations developing. And also to the development of extensive exchange networks. Bronze age (around 1300 B.C.).

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Iberian Peninsula

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  1. Iberian Peninsula By: Bailey Pinkston

  2. Cultures - 3000 B.C. Different complex cultures began to develop. This would lead to the first civilizations developing. And also to the development of extensive exchange networks.

  3. Bronze age (around 1300 B.C.) • The Chalcolithic culture of Vila Nova vanishes, along with El Argar. • The proto-Celtic Urnfield culture appears in the North-East, conquering all Catalonia • The Lower Guadalquivir valley shows its first clearly differentiated culture, with burnished pottery.

  4. Gades -1100 B.C. The seafaring Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians successively settled along the Mediterranean coast. Phoenician merchants founded the trading colony of Gades.

  5. The first Punic war 264 to 241 B.C. It began as a local conflict in Sicily between Hiero II of Syracuse, and the Mamertines of Messina. The Carthaginian navy helped the Mamertines but were betrayed. In 241 B.C. Carthage signed a peace treaty and paid Rome a huge war fine.

  6. The second Punic war and Hispania 219 B.C. • The first Roman troops invaded the Iberian Peninsula during the second Punic war. • This resulted in the creation of Hispania. • The Carthaginians are defeated at Zama. Carthage surrenders and is forced to pay an huge war fine and abandon all its possessions in the Iberian Peninsula. • This was the end of the second Punic war, In 202 B.C.

  7. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Iberia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula

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