Course 2: Hispania: Roman Spain

Question 1

Iberia became what ?

Answer 1

Hispania

Question 2

Was the Roman conquest the change of Iberia to Hispania?

Answer 2

yes

Question 3

What happened to the IP after the punic wars?

Answer 3

they went to a strategic location, with resources

Question 4

Was the Roman conquest a slow or continous affair?

Answer 4

it took over 200 years

Question 5

Why was the process difficult?

Answer 5

expansion of rome into other areas of the Ancient world, geography of IP, political and cultural fragmentation, and resistance of societies

Question 6

What is the success of the roman conquest?

Answer 6

main cultural influence in the IP would not be celtic or iberian, but roman

Question 7

What was the resistance about?

Answer 7

the celtiberian town of Numantia, and to Roman rule

Question 8

What is the political revolution (unified hispania) ?

Answer 8

the roman conquest allowed for the creation of a unified political entity in the IP for the first time

Question 9

What was the political division?

Answer 9

divided into two provinces: hispania citerior and ulterior

Question 10

Why were the roads the key for the roman control of the territory?

Answer 10

the development and creation of a network of roads linking the main towns

Question 11

what did the network roads and bridges connect to?

Answer 11

the IP to the rest of the roman empire

Question 12

What was the revolution in urban life about?

Answer 12

the built of urban centers, designed according to geometric/rectangular designs

Question 13

Did the spanish urban planners retake it during the Renaissance?

Answer 13

yes

Question 14

What was the revolution in civil engineering about?

Answer 14

growth of cities, the management of water, all this during the Roman occupation of the IP

Question 15

What was the cultural revolution about?

Answer 15

the demise of celtiberian and iberian languages

Question 16

What is the only language that will survive?

Answer 16

only basque

Question 17

What is the art and design influence during the cultural revolution?

Answer 17

the geometric elements, realism and truthfulness, roman architecture left a heritage

Question 18

Did the literature, theatre and philosophy have a influence during the cultural revolution?

Answer 18

yes

Question 19

What did the Law have to do during the cultural revolution?

Answer 19

roman law became the law of the land until the invasion of the visigoths, created a unified set of rules

Question 20

What is the religious revolution?

Answer 20

multiple religions, polytheism, animal worship, librations/offers

Question 21

How was Roman religion?

Answer 21

polytheistic, set of rituals than beliefs, allowed itself to be influenced by other religions

Question 22

What was the second religious revolution?

Answer 22

the arrival of christianity to the IP

Question 23

What happened to the early christian communities during the second religious revolution?

Answer 23

they were persecuted by the Romans was at first sporadic (occuring at irregular intervals)

Question 24

Was christianity a state religion during the second religious revolution?

Answer 24

yes

Question 25

Was the romanization of the IP the most important cultural event?

Answer 25

yes, it changed everything

Question 26

What did the romans win?

Answer 26

they got victory over Carthage, left Rome in control of eastern and southern IP

Question 27

Was Hispania peaceful and a successful region?

Answer 27

yes

Question 28

Did the Roman imperial authority in the West start to disintegrate?

Answer 28

yes

Question 29

What group of people crosed into Hispania as allies of the Roman authorities?

Answer 29

the visigoths (germanic people)