Hispania: Key Words and Definitions

Key Words Unit 6:

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: Peoples from Carthago, a Phoenician colony in the North of Africa (in today’s Tunisia).
4. Phoenicians: Peoples that came from western Asia in the 8^th century BC. They were mainly traders and merchants.
5. Conquest: Process 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 in 415 AD creating a kingdom with capital in Toledo.