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.
People lived in tribes, groups of about thirty members. They lived
outdoors or in caves or huts they built with sticks and animal skins.
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 wasnt enough food they migrated to
another area, they were nomads .
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 )youll 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 didnt 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