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Ancient History of The Ip 25thfeb
Ancient History of The Ip 25thfeb
Ancient History
ROMAN REPUBLIC
ROMAN EMPIRE (27 BC – 476 AD)
(509- 1st cent. BC)
Lusitania 50
Tarraconensis 7%
40
20%
30
Baetica
Tarraconensis 20
Baetica Lusitania 10
73% 4th Qtr
0
Nerva (96-98) Trajan (98-117) Hadrian (117-138) Septimius Severus
(193-211)
Italic Provincial Occidental Oriental Hispanic
The concept and process of “Romanisation”
• Very long and complex historical process, as a result of the
relationships between native peoples and Romans in Hispania
→ Clear predominance of the Roman structures over the native ones
• The local peoples replaced step by step their respective
autochthonous languages (Iberian, Celtiberian, Celtic, Greek) with
the use of the latin (“latinisation”)
• This substitution was only accomplished at the end of the process: it
was not a mechanic, simultaneous and uniform process in every
region
The concept and process of “Romanisation”
• The local aristocracy, the town councillors and priests set the
example for each community
• Impulse to urban life: to see the city as the example of a spatial,
territorial and social organization
• Rome was the high classes reference for: speech, dress, names,
manners…
Maybe emperor Hadrian´s wife (Circa AD 130-150)
An elite Roman woman from the
Flavian era (end 1st century AD)
Economy: commerce
• Internal - external trade.