The Roots.
The Far West
 The Hour of Rome
The Iberians

Iberian civilisation, which developed during the second Iron Age, is one of the most important western Mediterranean civilisations. The Greeks and Romans gave the name Iberian to all the peoples living around the river Iberus and, by extension, to all the peoples living in a wide area between Marseille and Gibraltar. The Iberians were a diverse group with common cultural characteristics. Like other Mediterranean peoples of the time (Greeks, Phoenicias, Etruscans,...), they possessed a developed and complex civilisation with urban and trade networks.

A Mediterranean Culture
An Advanced Civilisation
Towns and Cities
Daily Life
Building Techniques
Cults
A Warrior Society

Seventh century BC. The societies indigenous to Catalonia at that time make long-term contact with the Phoenician and Greek colonisers.
650-550 BC. Birth of Iberian civilisation.
550-450 BC. Growth of Iberian civilisation.
450-200 BC. High point of Iberian civilisation.
Third century BC. The Iberian peoples become involved in the Punic Wars.
195 BC. The Roman army under the Consul Cato inflicts a decisive defeat on the Iberians and consolidates the Roman presence in Hispania.
Second and first centuries BC. Process of Romanisation. The Iberian peoples are dominated militarily, and subjected to the economic interests of Rome and integrated into Roman culture.


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