This is a timeline of the  Prehistory and History.
When does History begin?

       Here you have a video  that introduces human prehistory. 

PALAEOLITHIC AGE

 

         In the caves of  Atapuerca ( Burgos) we can see the fossils of the first human beings that lived in Europe one million years ago. 

      In the Palaeolithic Age human beings  survived by eating the animals that they hunted or fished and the fruits and vegetables that they gathered. When there wasn´t enough food they migrated to another area, they were nomads. 

     People lived in tribes, groups of about thirty members. They lived outdoors or in caves or huts they built with sticks and animal skins.

     They made tools from stone or animal bones. 

NEOLITHIC AGE

 

   In the Neolithic Age human beings cultivated plants and domesticated animals, to take care of them they became sedentary. They lived in villages.

   They created polished stone tools more elaborated than Palaeolithic tools.

    They also learnt to make textiles on simple looms and  ceramic containers for cooking and storing  food. 

   If you want to revise the differences between Palaeolithic and Neolithic click on the image 

 THE METAL AGES 

    The Metal Ages began around 6,000 years ago, when the human beings learnt how to make objects from metal. Cooper was the first metal they used, then bronze and finally iron.

    The cities choose leaders to organise and people specialise even more tan in Neolithic: Warriors defended the city, farmers worked the land ,merchants bought  and sold products . Wheel and plough were invented .  

     Click on the image to know more about the Metal Ages.

 THE FIRST ARTISTS

     The first artists appeared in the Palaeolithic Age. They painted animals on the walls  and ceilings of the caves. They mixed minerals with animal fat to make different colours. If you click on the map of one of the most famous caves, Lascaux ( France )you´ll see the cave.

But in Spain we have a very famous cave too, in Santander,  Altamira

IBERIANS, CELTS, PHOENICIANS, GREEKS AND CARTHAGINIANS

Have a look at the next outline of the preromans in Spain

 

 ROMANS IN HISPANIA 

In the year 218 B.C. the Romans landed in Emporion, defeated the Carthaginians and started the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.  But this conquest took them a long time, it finished in 19 B.C. under the Emperor Augustus. To organise Hispania they divided the territory into  provinces, with a governor to keep the order and collect taxes. Roman law was enforced and  Latin became the official language. Christianism was  the official religion after the year 380 A.D. Society was the same as in the rest of the empire, with free men that could participate in the government and own property  and slaves that didn´t have any rights. 

The Romas built cities with two main streets that crosses each other the cardo and the decumanus. At the intersection of these streets they built the forum, a square with the main buildings of the city. They built temples, markets, theatres,  circuses, thermal baths, roads, bridges, and aqueducts. The Romans decorated the walls with paintings and mosaics.

If you want to know more interesting things about the Romans click on the coin