1. EARLY HISTORY UNIT 11

2. Paleolitic periodNeolitic periodAncient History Timeline

3. PALEOLITIC PERIODNEOLITIC PERIOD Nomads Lived in clans Hunted wild animals Collected wild plants to eat Lived in tents and caves Discovered fire Sedentary Farmers Lived in tribes Grew crops Domesticated animals Invented the wheel Used metals They made tools They used fire They lived in groups PREHISTORY

4. PALEOLITHIC IN SPAIN ALTAMIRA ATAPUERCA Some of the humans remains found there are over Eight hundred thousand years old

5. Ancient Greece Ancient Egypt Ancient Rome The ancient civilisations Ancient Rome Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece

6. MesopotamiaEgyptGreece Ziggurat – important building, often a temple. The most important cities were Ur and Babylon. It was on fertile land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Pharaoh – a king Pyramids – tombs for the Pharaohs. It was next to the river Nile. They had many gods and believed in the afterlive. They mummified dead bodies. It was on the Greek peninsula. They built acropolises. They started Olympic games. They introduced Democracy. They believed in many gods. They developed literature, architecture, theatre, sculpture and philosophy. The ancient civilisations

7. EMPEROR PATRICIANS PLEBEIANS SLAVES The Roman society

8.  The EMPEROR controlled the Roman Empire.  The PATRICIANS were a smal group of very rich, powerful families who lived in beautiful houses.  The PLEBEIANS were farmers, traders, shop owners and craftworkers.  They lived in smal homes.  They had to pay money to the Emperor and go to the war when the Emperor needed them.  The SLAVES did the hard work onthe farms, in the mines and in the houses of the rich.  They were captured in the wars. The Roman society

9. THE ANCIENT WORLD IN SPAIN IBERIANSCELTSPHOENICIANS Lived in the south and east. In stone-walled settlements on the hills. Rectangular houses built with stone, mud or straw. Grew crops and raised livestock. Skilled metalworkers. Used metal coins to trade. Lived in the centre and north. In stone-walled settlements on the hills. Circular houses both people and animals. Grew crops and raised livestock. Formed more rural populations. Didn´t trade. Came from The Eastern Mediterranean. Most important settlement in Cádiz. Great traders Came from Greece. Most important settlement in Ampurias Came from North Africa. Most important settlement in Cartagena and Ibiza. GREEKS CARTHAGINIANS

10. crops livestock metal urban circular trade Celts & iberians

11. THE ROMANS IN SPAIN  They called Hispania.  Positive things  Latin language: people could understand each other.  Roman law: they were the same everywhere for eveyone.  Calendar: it has weeks and months and is still used today.  New agriculture techniques: irrigation.  Architectural techniques: aqueducts, amphitheatres and roads.  Heating and sewage systems.  The introduction of Christianity.  They exported wheat, olive oil, wine, salt, cloth, gold, silver and iron.  Hadrian and Trajan were Spanish Emperors.  Romanisation was the process when conquered people slowly adopted the Roman way of life.