The animated history of Spain (from Tartessos to Rome)

the prehistoric Iberian peoples of Spain build megalithic structures towns and cities much of their culture is shrouded in mystery beginning in the eleventh or twelfth century BC Venetian merchants from modern-day Lebanon began trading with the Iberian --hz and would eventually build colonies along Iberia's eastern and southern coasts they would come into contact with the civilization of tartessos who would be famed throughout the Mediterranean for their wealth and tin copper and gold the Phoenicians who were the renowned seafarers and merchants of their day came under ever-increasing pressure from the growth of the Assyrian Empire to escape the Assyrians and later the Persians many Phoenicians opted to leave home and colonize the western Mediterranean their greatest city would be Carthage which would one day dominate all the other Phoenician colonies during this time Rome was just a regional power struggling to gain control of their Italian neighbors to the east of Rome the ever squabbling Greek city-states managed to colonize the area around the Black Sea the coasts of modern day Libya Sicily Italy southern France and also the northeast coast of Spain originating near modern-day hallstatt Austria Celtic culture and people would spread as far east as modern-day Turkey into northern Europe and also into Spain here the native Iberian tribes incorporated elements of Celtic Phoenician and Greek society into their own these extremely warlike people would develop a sophisticated culture and a variety of writing forms influenced by Celtic Greek and Phoenician the Iberian Peninsula was rich in tin and copper the needed alloy to create bronze as well as gold silver and iron these medals were the crude-oil of the ancient world fueling civilized society needed for everything from construction tools agricultural equipment weapons and armor to currency by a third century BC the city-state of Carthage had become an empire consolidating much of the western Mediterranean under its control after a long series of Wars Rome would unite the Italian peninsula Rome would then set its sights on Carthage and after a series of three Wars known as the Punic Wars Rome was triumphant it took many hard-fought campaigns for Rome to absorb Carthage's Iberian territory it would take Rome more than 200 years to fully subdue the entire Iberian Peninsula on my next video on Spain I will be focusing on the Roman conquest of Spain Roman Spain and the collapse of the Roman Empire this has been Epimetheus don't forget to hit that like button and subscribe if you like the content and would like to see more of it and hit that Bell icon if you would like to get notifications when I make new videos I'm a one-man operation doing all the drawing editing putting the video together narrating and if you would like to enable me to make more content like this more often consider supporting me on patreon like the uber Jodie Bala's and Morpheus thank you so much