Roman Hispania

La Hispania romana

218 BC–409. Rome came to Hispania in 218 BC to fight Carthage and stayed for six centuries.

What happened

Rome came to Hispania in 218 BC to fight Carthage and stayed for six centuries. Conquest took two hundred years, from the landing at Emporion to Augustus's Cantabrian wars (29–19 BC); the Celtiberian town of Numantia, which fell in 133 BC, became a symbol of resistance. Then came roads, aqueducts, theatres and planned cities such as Emerita Augusta (Mérida), capital of Lusitania. Hispania sent Rome olive oil, wine and silver, and also writers and emperors: the philosopher Seneca was born in Córdoba, and Trajan, the first emperor from outside Italy, in Itálica near Seville. Above all, the provinces learned Latin, the language from which Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Portuguese would grow.

Its events

  1. 218–19 BC: Rome lands in Hispania
  2. 133 BC: The fall of Numantia
  3. 25 BC: Augustus founds Mérida
  4. 98: Trajan, an emperor from Hispania

Sources

  1. Second Punic War — World History Encyclopedia
  2. El nuevo cerco a Numancia (Soria, España) – M. J. Peréx Agorreta — e-rph, Universidad de Granada
  3. Las Médulas: vocabulario y conceptos – Guerras Cántabras — Museo Virtual de la Ciencia, CSIC
  4. Conjunto Monumental de Mérida — Consorcio de la Ciudad Monumental de Mérida
  5. Trajan — World History Encyclopedia
  6. Seneca — World History Encyclopedia