2. 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.
3. 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.
4. IBERIANS
• THE IBERIANS INHABITED THE
EAST AND SOUTH OF THE
PENINSULA. THEY WERE
FARMERS AND PRACTISED
COMMERCE. SCULTURE WAS
VERY IMPORTANT IN THEIR
CULTURE.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. CAROLINGIAN
EMPIRE
• IN THE YEAR 800,
CHARLEMAGNE, KING OF THE
FRAKS, CONQUERED LARGE
TERRITORIES AND CROWNED
HIMSELF EMPEROR. HIS EMPIRE
EXTENDED THROUGHOUT
CENTRAL EUROPE.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. MESOPOTAMIA
• WAS BETWEEN THE TIGRIS AND
EUPHRATES RIVERS IN THE NEAR EAST.
THERE WERE IMPORTANT CITIES, LIKE
BABYLON, WHERE THE FIRST LAWS
WERE WRITTEN.
