History 8

Spain

Spain is found in what peninsula?

Who are the earliest known inhabitants of Spain?

At about 1000 B.C., the Phoenicians arrived to trade and colonize along the southern coast.

They founded _________ which became a prosperous city.

Later on, a group of Celts settled in the northern Iberia near the Pyrenees Mountains.

Greek colonists established settlements along Iberia's southern and eastern coasts.

By the end of the 5th century B.C. , the _____________ had also moved in and gained control of much of the Iberian Peninsula.

Carthage went to war with Rome in the series of wars called the __________________ Wars.

After the Punic Wars, Rome acquired Carthage's holdings in Iberia.

The Romans called their new territory __________.

In the fifth century A.D., the Germanic tribe called the __________ conquered Spain.

In 711, the Muslim __________ from North Africa invaded Spain. They could not push forward into the rest of Europe so they settled in Spain for almost 800 years.

The great center for Moorish culture is in ____________.

The Moors constructed beautiful mosques in Spain called __________, the most famous of which is the ___________.

After the Moors had driven the Visigoths from power, some of the Visigoths and Spanish peoples escaped to establish small kingdoms in Northern Spain.

In the 11th century, theses small kingdoms began to wage their own crusades calledthe ________ to take back Spain.

The kingdom of Castile became powerful and led the other kingdoms to conquer back the northern half of Spain.

The Spanish national hero, __________, fought against the Moors and captured back the city of Valencia. More cities were taken back from the Moors and eventually, the Moors were driven to Granada in southern Spain.

In 1469, Prince ___________ of Aragon married Queen ________________ of Castile and later on they became King and Queen of Spain. They continued the war against the Moors and in 1942, Granada was recaptured.