LA HISTORIA DE ESPANA30 minutes of all you need to know

800 BC TARTESSES Traders of the Iberian Penninsula Traded with Greece and Phoenicia

200 BC BIENVENIDOS LOS ROMANOS

ROMAN CONTRIBUTIONS

400 AND 466 AD VANDALS AND VISIGOTHS

711 TO 1492 MUSLIMS BRING LIFE AND STYLE

Bring civilization and government

Begin education and “renaissance”

Health and medicine

Inventions and architecture

Education and Universities

MOSQUE OF CORDOBA

EL CID (1044 1099) HERO AND LIBERATOR

FERDINAND AND ISABELLA

KING CARLOS I RULER OF THE WORLD

1702 THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF SPANISH POWER

Spain loses the Rocky Island of Gilbratar

18O5 SPANISH ARMADA GOES DOWN

1808 NAPOLEON OCCUPIES SPAIN

1936 THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Spain loses 350,000 sons and daughters

(US civil war loses 618,000 in our own 1860 to 1865)

Fighting between right wing nationalists (Franco) and republicans

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

1939 GENERAL FRANCO TAKES POWER

Guernica by P. Picasso

1975 SPAIN MOVES TO A DEMOCRACY