>greek "civilization"
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WUZ
WUZ
>>57282044
WUZ COINMAKERS AND SHIT
WUZ
>>57281953
>implicando que los maricas no colonizaron Iberia
>>57282132
CHI
>dats rite childrens, we used to be visigoths n shit. we made spaceships n could control shit with our minds until them mothafuckin moors came n oppressed us and took away our special powers!
>>57282214
t.gallego
>>57282280
visigoths came waaaaaay after that
and they were shit
the only interesting periods in spain was the iberian, the ummayad and the franco era.
>>57282347
i-i know it was just mildly related, I know next to nothing about pre-visigoth Iberia
>>57282464
there was a quite developed native civilization in the east and the south called iberians, they had cities, monetary system, their own alphabet and language, and moved with horses. they used really complicated and cool clothing.
in the north and west there were celts, and in the center mixed culture of celts and iberians, barely populated area.
>>57282610
How did they become incorporated into the Roman Republic?
>>57281953
>895 BC
Doubt
>>57282610
Lusitanians were here, Iberians are losers
>>57282690
We aren't taught about them sadly. We don't know much of them either.
Their civilization was in serious decline when the roman and the greeks came. Greeks had no difficulties incorporing the coastal cities and then romans conquered all Hispania.
Nobody knows for what reason they declined that much.
Another interesting facts about that civilization: it was a matriarcal society, so the woman had the power, thats why the 95% of the sculptures are from women, probably they were some kind of "leaders".
We also know that they had their own religion, and made rituals in rooms with the dead inside. Sadly we can't translate their language (iberic) it's totally isolated.
>>57282741
lusitans were celts, nothing interesting in them
>>57283080
>it was a matriarcal society
Wasn't that mostly a Basque thing?
>>57283292
Basques are ancient Iberics, maybe?
i don#t know, but it might be.
>>57283394
But the Basques, from my knowledge, remained in the northern part of Spain. As opposed to this Iberian society in the south.
>>57283292
>>57283394
They might be related. We can write iberic language in latin script and it ressembles to basque, but we're unable to translate it. They've found that some numerals are similar in basque and iberic.
Basque has also suffered centuries of isolation and latin contamination, so it makes it even more difficult.
>>57283481
Geography. Basques remained in a area full of mountains unaccesible for romans. That area has been isolated for centuries and it has survived until today.
>>57283693
I'm aware that the Basques were pretty isolated, but I found the connection to be really interesting. I swear that I heard something about their societies being rather matriarchal as well.
>>57283080
The greeks? I thought it was Carthage that conquered coastal Spain.
>>57283481
Correct.
People from the basques are thought to be descendants of ancient early farmers who mixed with the local survivors of the ice age..
>>57283746
yeah, more or less.
it was also common in other regions like Cantabria, and in general it was common in spanish families that the mother was the one who commands. f.ex in my own family.
we had a dictatorship based in the superiority of the man so it altered everything up
things about spain are so fucking heterogeneous in general
>>57283763
yes phoenicians and shit also happened. the first ones who arrived to the iberian area where from the middle east.
Ancient Finns vs Ancient Iberians c. 8000 BC
Who wins?
>>57284045
USA
>>57281953
I don't get it.
The greek one looks better, and is more complicated to make.
>>57284045
ancient koreans
>>57284045
The ancient Sardinian empire
That picture is false as shit, there were no coins before the VII-VIII. century BC, the Iberian coin on the right is typical Celtic copy of Greek drachmas and is from roughly the II or III. century BC, the backside should have some horse deciption I'm 99% sure, thats the telling mark of Celt coins.
>>57288391
>celt coins without celtic people
sure
Also the mint quality on the left coin is superior, its a pic that could only deceive layman.
>>57288473
There were Celts all over Europe you know. And it doesn't have to come from strictly celtic territory.
>>57285535
I love these
Hmm I stand corrected, well I dont touch much mints West to Italy and it looked lot like Celtic coins from Hungary, so its actually Roman denarius minted in Iberia after Roman conquest
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/numismatics/entry/osca_and_iconographic/
well its still not ancient iberian so w/e
>>57288752
Althoudh in a blind shot I did guess the backside having horse imagery lol, aint im lucky. Perhaps its celtic influence?
