A brief description of main characteristics of Classical Antiquity (Ancient Age) in the Iberian Peninsula.

1. CLASSICAL
ANTIQUITY

2. It started 3.000 years ago with
the invention of writing.

3. It started 3.000 years ago with
the invention of writing.

4. It finished with the fall of the
Roman empire in year 476 AD.

5. It finished with the fall of the
Roman empire in year 476 AD.

6. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Summerians: they invented writing.

7. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Sumerians: they invented writing.

8. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Babylonians: they invented numbers.

9. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Babylonians: they invented numbers.

10. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Phoenicians: they invented textile dyes.

11. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Phoenicians: they invented textile dyes.

12. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Egyptians: they built great pyramids.

13. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Egyptians: they built great pyramids.

14. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Greeks: they developed mathematics and philosophy.

15. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Greeks: they developed mathematics and philosophy.

16. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Romans: they created laws.

17. MAJOR CIVILISATIONS IN THE
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
• Romans: they created laws.

18. IBERIAN PENINSULA (NATIVE VILLAGES)
IBERIANS
• They were the first people that lived on the Iberian
Peninsula.
• They lived in the coastal Mediteranean regions.
• They practised farming.
• They had their own writing system.
• They lived in fortified villages.

19. IBERIAN PENINSULA (NATIVE VILLAGES)
CELTS
• They occupied the north region of the Iberian
Peninsula.
• They were metal-workers.
• They built their houses with stone and adobe.

21. COLONIZING CIVILIZATIONS
PHOENICIANS
• They went to the south of the Peninsula in search
of metals.
• They founded the cities of Gadir and Malaka (Cádiz
and Málaga)

22. COLONIZING CIVILIZATIONS
GREEKS
• They went to the north-east coast of the
Mediterranean Sea in search of metals.
• They founded some cities in Girona.

23. COLONIZING CIVILIZATIONS
CARTHAGINIANS
• They went to the east coast of the Iberian
Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
• They were interested in trading.
• They founded the city of Cartagena.

25. COLONIZING CIVILIZATIONS
ROMANS
• Roman empire started in year 27 BC and finished in
year 426 AC.
• They competed with Carthaginians for trading
control in the Mediterranean Sea, causing the
Punic Wars.
• In the second Punic Wars, Romans started having
the control of most of the Iberian Peninsula.

26. ROMANISATION
• It is the name to the adaptation to the roman way of
life. People of the Peninsula adopted Roman language:
Latin.
• They founded new cities: Tarragona, Mérida and Itálica.
• They built roads, bridges and aqueducts.
• They divided the Peninsula into provinces.
• They built amphitheatres, circuses and thermal baths.

27. ROMAN SOCIETY
• Society was organised into free people and
slaves.
• Free people: PATRICIANS (rich people) and
PLEBEIANS (por people).
• Slaves had no rights.

28. ROMAN ART
• They were great builders. They built many
buildings: temples, basilicas, amphitheatres,
circuses, theatres and termal baths.
• They made mosaics on the floors with tiny
pieces called “tesseras”.

29. ROMAN MOSAICS