Answer the questions:
Q1. What was Tartessos? Who was Arganthonios?
Q2. What sectors was Iberian economy based on?
Q3. Look at an atlas and check which present-day autonomous regions correspond to the Turdetan, Bastetan and Oretan area.
Q4. What sectors was Celtic economy based on?
Q5. Who were the Pre-Roman people? Why are they given that name?
Q6. Did Iberians have any writing system? And Celts?
Q7. Choose the correct word to complete each sentence:
a. Iberians lived in the north/south and east of the Peninsula.
b. Pre-Romans believed in many/one god(s).
c. Celts lived mainly from cattle raising/trade.
Q8. Which coloniser people introduced the alphabet in Spain?
Q9. Answer the questions:
a. Name the different coloniser peoples.
b. Why did the colonisers settle on the Iberian Peninsula?
Q10. Complete the chart with the missing words:
Q11. Use a word from the chart above in the correct form to complete each sentence:
a. Celtic ____________ were called castros.
b. In pre-Roman Spain many different tribes _______________ the Peninsula.
c. The colonisers ______________ new crafts and farming methods.
d. There were Phoenician ______________ on the Mediterranean coast.
Q12. List the main Phoenician, Greek, and Carthaginian colonies and where they were located.
Q13. Which coloniser people introduced the alphabet in Spain?
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