Iberian Peninsula

vanquished by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama. Scipio had considered Hannibal's strategies and splendidly concocted some of his own, lastly crushed Rome's adversary at Zama, having at one time driven Hasdrubal, Hannibal's sibling, out of the Iberian…

and played important economic, religious, and cultural roles. One of the major roles that muslim cities and urban areas is the cultural role. During the Post-classical Age, Al-Hijari, an Iberian Muslim of Arab origin, boasted that Cordoba became a superior region after the Arab conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. He stated that the under the Umayyads, Cordoba became the center of seekers of science and poetry and other intellectuals. He has regarded this urban area as highly developed in the…

Southern Europe includes countries of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the Italian peninsula, southern France, and Greece. Also, includes the Balkan countries of Southeast Europe. It is a mountainous area and a Mediterranean Vegetation region that has mild climate. Alpine Orogeny is a phase formed fifty million years ago when the Eurasian continent plate and African continent plate collide together. The Alpine Orogeny produced intense metamorphism of rocks, crumpling of rock strata,…

My teacher called me a liar when I said my great-great-great-great-grandfather was a Spanish pirate. On top of that, I also said I was related to Johnny Appleseed. Of course, I protested that I wasn't lying because my mother said it was true but to no avail. Don't get me wrong; this teacher wasn't cruel. In fact, she was one of my favorite teachers. She just wasn't buying what I was selling that particular day. But the Legend of the Spanish Pirate never left my mind. Twenty-five year later, I…

July 2, 1776. The British colonies in the new world have gathered as one nation. Thus, the United States of America was born. However, this did not come without sacrifice. Once the Declaration was written and sent to King George, the war had begun. Again, April 12, 1861, not even 100 years after the American Revolution, the American civil war had started. Brother against brother. Each conflict had their own rebellion and response by the authority but each had very different outcomes. September 3…

Portugal is a southern European country on the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain. Its location on the Atlantic Ocean has influenced many aspects of its culture: salt cod and grilled sardines are national dishes, the Algarve's beaches are a major destination and much of the nation’s., when Portugal had a powerful maritime empire. Lisbon, is the capital of Portugal, is one of Europe's most beautiful and cosmopolitan cities. Cosmopolitan means a familiar with and at ease in many different…

been a part of their culture for so long and can bring so many people together. Bullfighting has been in the Spanish culture since about 1726. It was their version of a Friday night football game. Bullfighting was very popular in Rome, but the Iberian Peninsula is where it was fully developed into the early version of what it is today. It has been losing support ever since…

Muslims, Berber or Arab, who conquered the Iberian Peninsula. These Moors, who were religious fanatics, arrived in Spain in the year 711 and thus began a period of history which would shape Iberia differently than the rest of Europe as the land adapted to a new religion, language and culture. Hispania became a part of the caliph of Damascus which was the capital of the Muslim world. This Moorish land was known as Al-Andalus and included all of the Iberian Peninsula except for the extreme…

Number I There are several reasons for the start of the Crusades. The rapid expansion of Islam leading to the Holy War is one of the main causes. Western Europe is the main region where Christian concept took root and grew into Holy War. Even with the close measures of the Islamic Kingdoms, Byzantine Christians, never found value in waging or condoning war. Within a century of Constantine I’s rule, “[c]hristians in government found themselves faced with questions of life and death, war and…

Muslim trading systems rapidly increasing from Asia to Africa all the way to Europe. Christians and Muslims formed crusades fighting for holy lands. Iberians launched Reconquista, in an effort to destroy the Muslims. Muslim provincialism dies away leading Portuguese to independence in 1147. Finally in 1492 Spanish freed from morish control over the peninsula. New expansive activity began with the emerging of unified states in France and England. Europeans learnt trading tricks and routes from…