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{{ANEEtiqueta|palabrasclave= Carthaginians in the Iberian Peninsula, Romans, Romanisation, Roman occupation, Celtiberian wars, Cantabrian wars, Roman cities, Christianity in Roman Hispania, productive centres in Roman Hispania, Roman villas, administrative organisation of Roman Hispania, Hispania ulterior, Hispania citerior, Lusitania, Baetica, Tarraconensis, Cartaginenesis, Gallaecia, Roman roads, Roman roads|descripcion= Cartographic presentation The so-called Ancient Age was considered to have begun in the East with the appearance of prehistorywriting some 5, including000 years ago, among others, sites on and in the Iberian Peninsuladuring the second Iron Age, throughout the 3rd century BC.|url=valor}}{{ANEObra|Serie=Compendium http://nationalatlas.ign.es/images/thumb/c/c9/Spain_Constitution-of -the National Atlas -Visigothic-state.-Germanic-invasions_0286-0454_map_13988_eng.jpg/198px-Spain_Constitution-of Spain|Logo=[[File:Logo_Compendio-the-Visigothic-state.-Germanic-invasions_0286-0454_map_13988_eng.jpg|left|60x60px|link=]]|Título=Spain on maps|Subtítulo=A geographic synopsis|Año=2022|Contenido=New content}}
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{{ANETextoEpigrafeANENavegacionSubcapitulo|epigrafeseccion=[[History|History]]|capitulo=[[Historical overview|Historical overview]]|subcapitulo=Ancient Age}}Until relatively recently, the Ancient Age was widely considered to have begun in the Orient with the advent of writing, roughly 5,000 years ago. Today, other factors are also taken into account when situating this period in the timeline of history, such as the way societies were organised, diversification with respect to production and consumption, transport systems, and lastly, the appearance of more advanced civilisations that have gone down in history or, in other words, have persisted in our collective memory.
From this new perspective, the Ancient Age on the Iberian Peninsula is thought to have begun during the Iron Age II, although the last two millennia BC appear to be more typical of the Neolithic period, which was characterised by the use of metallurgy, and therefore cannot be dated to Prehistory with total certainty. Nevertheless, it is much more complicated to define the ending of the Ancient Age. According to some scholars, it concluded with the rise of the Visigoths in the 6<sup>th</sup> century, while others contend that it was the Moorish invasion (in the Battle of Guadalete) in the year 711 (three centuries later) that marked its ending. Additionally, these theories raise the question of whether the reign of the Visogoths can be referred to as the first Spanish nation-state. If so concluded, the Middles Ages would only have been a period of re-conquest (''la Reconquista''). Or perhaps, this three-century-long period was merely a continuation of Roman rule (Antiquity). There is a longstanding historiographical debate about whether the origin and essence of Spain begin with ''Hispania'', or if Spain is something much more recent, as far as the 19<sup>th</sup> century. In any case, as previously mentioned, belief in one historical theory does not preclude consideration of other differing theories.<br>
One thing we know for certain is that at the end of the Iron Age, the Iberian Peninsula was in the throes of war for the first time. This violent reality marked the dawning of the Ancient Age on the Peninsula and the transition to the historical era. The ending of the Ancient Age is widely taken to have occurred sometime between the 5<sup>th</sup> and 8<sup>th</sup> centuries AD. These three centuries, spanning from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Middle Ages, have been termed ''The Transition to the Middle Ages''. By this time, a definition of the Iberian Peninsula was taken into account as a unified territory, already medieval in nature, with its own borders and institutions. Its development paralleled the rise of the Republic of Venice, the expansion of the Franks with its epicentre in Paris, the shift from Latin to Greek in the Eastern Roman Empire, and the appearance and spread of Islam from Anatolia to Gibraltar, ending at the “mare nostrum”.<br>
In the initial years of the Ancient Age on the Peninsula, Carthage, an ancient Phoenician colony of Tyre, near modern day Tunis, had become a great maritime island empire in the Western Mediterranean. After Tyre had been conquered by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the 6<sup>th</sup> century BC, Carthage´s influence began to grow, eventually dominating the region. Over time, on the Peninsular coasts and Balearic Islands, the Carthaginians replaced the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihVm6O3GY4Q Phoenicians] who had periodically disembarked on the Iberian Peninsula to work in factories and storehouses since the 9<sup>th</sup> and 8<sup>th</sup> centuries BC. Greek explorers from Phocaea and the enclave of Massilia (Marseille) also arrived, and according to older historical sources, established a number of colonies; however, further studies of some of the remains in these areas suggest they belonged to Greeks who were only there engaging in trade with the earlier Phoenician enclaves.<br>
Between the 5<sup>th</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> centuries BC, the Carthaginian Empire had already consolidated its power. By the 3<sup>rd</sup> century, it was embroiled in a series of conflicts with the emerging, powerful Roman Empire over the control of Sicily. In the first Punic War, the Carthaginian settlements of Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia were lost to the Romans. The Carthaginians, led by the Barca clan, were in search of a strategic base with logistical advantages on the Iberian Peninsula. In 227 BC, Carthago Nova (Cartagena) was founded.<br>
Subsequently, Carthaginian General Hamilcar Barca took the indigenous peninsular tribes and mining sites under his control, either by force or by means of agreements. His successors, Hasdrubal (his son-in-law) and later, his sons, Hannibal and Hasdrubal Barca, strengthened their control over the territory, which by then stretched from Gibraltar to the Sistema Central mountain range, trying to increase their power over the region to prepare for an inevitable second confrontation with Rome. According to legend, Hamilcar made his son, just a boy at the time, profess eternal hatred towards Romans.<br>
The geographical extent of Carthaginian power was restricted by a border treaty with Rome established in 226 BC, which set the Ebro River as the upper limit of their expansion to the north. It was the seventh such agreement. In 219-218 BC, Hannibal laid siege to the city of Saguntum, an ally of Rome despite its location to the south of the Ebro River. Rather than accept imminent defeat, the Saguntians preferred to commit suicide and burn the city to the ground. The news outraged the Roman Senate; the conquest of Sagunto was considered a ''casus belli''.<br>
Hannibal advanced further, commanding his forces across the Ebro River towards Italy on a famed expedition through the Pyrenees and Alps with his forty legendary war elephants. The reaction of the Romans after losing four memorable battles was to undertake an organised military strategy. Meanwhile, Hannibal had reached Capua but had decided against storming the city of Rome. At one point, the supplies he had sent to his brother, Hasdrubal, in Emporium (Empúries, Girona) were ultimately cut off by Roman forces led by Gnaeus and Publius Cornelius Scipio, who had disembarked there in 218 BC. After engaging in several successive battles (Carthago Nova in 209 BC, Baecula in 208 BC, Ilipa in 206 BC, and Gades (Cádiz) in 205 BC) these Roman expeditionary forces eventually succeeded in destroying and replacing the Carthaginian Empire on the Iberian Peninsula.<br>
The Ancient Age was a period characterised by conquest and Romanisation of the Iberian Peninsula. This Roman control over the Peninsula led to the widespread use of the Roman term ''Hispania'' when referring to the collective peninsular territories. Gradually, the inhabitants of Hispania adopted the politics, language, culture, way of thinking and lifestyles of the Roman empire.
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Romanisation on the Iberian Peninsula was a slow, gradual process by which Rome progressively brought the territories of Hispania under its rule. This movement had taken hold starting in the year 218 BC and endured until the end of the 1<sup>st</sup> century BC, when the diverse peninsular communities had been fully integrated into a single unified territory with a common economy, language and culture.<br>
The first Roman occupation took place along the Mediterranean coast and in the Guadalquivir River Basin, with the Romans ultimately replacing the Carthaginians. The Romans restructured the territory known to the Punics as ''I-span-ya'' (roughly meaning “the land of metals”), dividing it into two provinces: the ''Hispania Citerior'' and ''Hispania Ulterior'' (197 BC).<br>
Expansion into the interior of the Peninsula incited resistance from the various communities, two of which were significant: the wars with the Lusitanians and the Celtiberians. In the former, Lusitanian General [https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/5898/viriato#:~:text=Caudillo%20lusitano%20y%20estratega%20militar,hispana%20contra%20la%20conquista%20romana. Viriathus] was triumphant in several battles until he was betrayed and assassinated in 139 BC. In the latter, the Celtiberian city of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3z_SZbw1_4 Numantia] was at the centre of several battles, the last one being a long, hard-fought conflict with the forces of Publius Cornelius Scipio Amelianus. The Numantinos ended up burning the city before ultimately surrendering in 133 BC.<br>
Over time, Hispania gradually assimilated the culture of the Roman Republic. In this territory, civil wars were waged between Mario and Sila. A Sila's enemy named Sertorius (whom the romantic historiography of Spain called the first king of Spain), defied the Romans and became a semi-independent ruler of Hispania until he was assassinated in 72 BC. Sertorius created the Senate of Evora, a school in Osca (Huesca) for the children of native nobility, and his own army. Also, in Hispania, the civil wars between Julius Caesar and Pompey (48 and 49 BC) were raging. Pompey was eventually defeated in the battles of Ilerda (Lleida) as well as his sons in the battles of Munda.<br>
Thirty years later, the Cantabrian Wars broke out (26-19 BC), initiated by Augustus, the first Roman emperor, with the objective of defeating the Galicians, Asturians and Cantabrians. A year before, he had reorganised the Peninsula into three provinces: ''Tarraconensis, Lusitania'' and ''Baetica''. Hispania was then completely under the new Roman rule, officially converting into an empire. By this time, its inhabitants had forgotten their old, native traditions and customs and had developed a well-formulated idea of their identity as Hispano-Romans.
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</ul></div>The construction of Roman roads uniting the now very Romanised 150 cities in Hispania facilitated a rapid distribution of raw materials and merchandise. The development of highly-advanced technology enabled them to go through mountains and rivers as well as the construction of aqueducts, civic centres, sports complexes, institutional buildings and recreational spaces. The road system ran north-south with two major thoroughfares: ''Vía de la Plata'', from sea to sea, and ''Vía Augusta'', extending all the way to the city of Rome. These two roads were linked in turn from east to west by two parallel roads originating in Asturica Augusta and Italica. And lastly, there was a diagonal causeway joining Emerita Augusta with Cesaraugusta.
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