Sunday, September 18, 2016

Unit 0: Definitions

Key Words and Definitions:

1. Celts: People who inhabited the north and west of the Iberian Peninsula. They lived in walled cities in circular dwellings and lived mainly from livestock.

2. Iberians: People who inhabited the south and east of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. They lived in walled cities in rectangular dwellings and lived mainly from agriculture and metal trade.

3. Cathaginians: People from Carthago, a Phoenician colony in the North of Africa (in today’s Tunisia).

4. Phoenicians They came from western Asia in the 8th century BC. They were mainly traders and merchants.

5. ConquestProcess by which the Romans seized the Carthaginian territories in the south and east of the Iberian Peninsula and then gradually extended control over most of the territory.

6. Visigoths: Group of Germanic people who arrived in Hispania after they were defeated by the Franks in the Battle of Vouillé in 507 A.D. creating the kingdom of Toledo.
 

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