History of Spain

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History of Spain
by Tamás Ádám
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Prehistory

• Inhabited from the Old Stone Age
• Paintings in the Altamira cave
• Discovered by Marcellino de Sautola in 1879

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Ancient times

• Target of conquests
• 800 BC Iberians fused with Celts
• 10th century BC Phoenicians founded Malága, Cádiz
• 7th century BC Greeks founded trading colonies
• Carthaginians briefly took control of much of the
  Mediterranean coast
• 3rd century BC Romans defeated Carthaginians and
  Hispania was divided into two provinces Hispania
  Citerior and Hispania Ulterior

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Malága
Seneca
Hadrianus
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Middle Ages

• Gothic Kingdom
• 409. Germanic tribes attacked Hispania
• 419. Visigothic Kingdom
• Until 711 Hispania was under visigothic rule,
  last king was Roderik
• 711-718. Iberian Peninsula was conquered by
  Muslim armies

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• The Reconquista
• At the end of the 13th century the two strongest
  kingdoms were Castile and Aragon
• In 1469 the crowns united by the marriage of
  Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon
• Spanish Inquisition

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Ferdinand II and Isabella I
Inquisition
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Modern Age

• The Spanish Golden Age
• 1492 voyages of Christopher Columbus
• Colonies in the New World
• One of the biggest nation
• Wage war against England, France and Netherland
• Spanish colonization
• 1519 Hernán Cortés - aztec
• 1523. Pedro de Alvarando - maya
• 1531. Francisco Pizarro - Inca Empire

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The ruins of Palenque
A view of Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the
Incas".
Christopher Columbus
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• The Decline of the Spanish Empire
• 1808 Napoleons campaign
• 1814 the return of King Ferdinand VII
• 1898 SpanishAmerican War, the fall of the
  Spanish Empire
• 1923-1930. period of authoritarian rule under
  General Miguel Primo de Rivera
• 1931 establishment of the Second Spanish Republic

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Miguel Primo de Rivera
Ferdinand VII
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20th century

• The Spanish Civil War and Francos regime
• 1936 republican police killed José Calvo Sotelo
• 1936-39 Spanish Civil War
• Nationalist forces led by General Francisco
  Franco and supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist
  Italy
• Republican side was supported by the Soviet
  Union, Mexico and International Brigades

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Francisco Franco
Juan Carlos I (2003)
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• 1939 Nationalist forces won
• After World War II, Spain was politically and
  economically isolated
• From 1950 economic development
• 1975 Francos death, Juan Carlos assumed the
  position of King of Spain and head of state
• 1978 new Spanish Constitution and the arrival of
  democracy
• On 30 May 1982 Spain joined the NATO
• 1986 Spain joined the European Union
• 1996 Partido Popular, led by José María Aznar
• Spanish Socialist Workers Party, led by José Luis
  Rodríguez Zapatero

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José María Aznar
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
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