martes, 31 de mayo de 2011

EARLY COLONIST

The Phoenicians were traders from Asia. They settled on the south coast. In 1100 B.C. they founded Gades (now Cadiz), the oldest city in Western Europe. They became important trading partners of the Tartessians.

The Greeks settled on the Mediterranean coast. They came to trade ceramic objects for metals. They founded the cities of Denia and Ampurias.

The Carthaginians came from North Africa to trade metals and cloth. They also settled on the Mediterranean coast and founded the city of Cartagena.

These colonising civilisations lived and trated with the Celtiberians for centuries. They left cultural legacies, such as the alphabet and metal coins.

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