APPENDIX. PRE-ROMAN IBERIAN PENINSULA
6. APPENDIX. THIS PART IS NOT GOING TO BE A PART OF THE EXAM.
Pre-roman Iberian Peninsula.
At the start of the 1st millenium a number of colonising peoples sttled in the eastern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, where the founded cities. The most important were: the phoenicians, the greeks and the carthaginians.
6. 1. Phoenicians.
Chronology: about the 9th century.
Colonies: Gadir (Cadiz), Malaca (Málaga), Sexi (Almuñecar) and Abdera (Adra).
Cultural innovations: the potter's wheel, and the alphabetic writing.
6. 2. Greeks.
Chronology: about the 8th century.
Colonies: Emporion (Ampurias), Rhode (Rosas), Mainake (Torre del Mar).
Cultural innovations: money, the cultivation of olive trees, Art.
6. 3. Carthaginians.
Carthago was a colony of Tyre.
Chronology: 7th century Balearic islands, 6th century Iberian Peninsula.
Colonies: Ebussus (Eivissa), Carthago Nova (Cartagena), Mago (Mahon).
6. 4. Tartessos.
As a consequence of the cultural influence colonising peoples appear a indigenous urban culture: Tartessos, located in the region of Huelva between the 8th and the 6th centuries. It was caractherised by:
- An economy based on agriculture and the exploitation of the metals in the region.
- Apparition of writing.
- A refined form of art.
