A History of Spain

Charles Chapman

• Publisher: Jovian Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781537802107
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

THE Iberian Peninsula has not always had the same form which it now has, or the same plants, animals, or climate which are found there today. For example, it is said that Spain was once united by land with Africa, and also by way of Sicily, which had not yet become an island, with southern Italy, making a great lake of the western Mediterranean. The changes as a result of which the peninsula assumed its present characteristics belong to the field of geology, and need to be mentioned here only as affording some clue to the earliest colonization of the land. In like manner the description of the primitive peoples of Spain belongs more properly to the realm of ethnology. It is worthy of note, however, that there is no proof that the earliest type of man in Europe, the Neanderthal, or Canstadt, man, existed in Spain, and it is believed that the next succeeding type, the Furfooz man, entered at a time when a third type, the Cromagnon, was already there. Evidences of the Cromagnon man are numerous in Spain. Peoples of this type may have been the original settlers of the Iberian Peninsula. Like the Neanderthal and Furfooz men they are described generally as paleolithic men, for their implements were of rough stone. After many thousands of years the neolithic man, or man of the polished stone age, developed in Spain as in other parts of the world. In some respects the neolithic man of Spain differed from the usual European type, but was similar to the neolithic man of Greece...

Table of contents

• CHAPTER I THE INFLUENCE OF GEOGRAPHY ON THE HISTORY OF SPAIN
• CHAPTER II THE EARLY PEOPLES, TO 206B.C.
• CHAPTER III ROMAN SPAIN, 206B.C.-409A.D.
• CHAPTER IV VISIGOTHIC SPAIN, 409-713
• CHAPTER V MOSLEM SPAIN, 711-1031
• CHAPTER VI CHRISTIAN SPAIN IN THE MOSLEM PERIOD, 711-1035
• CHAPTER VII ERA OF THE SPANISH CRUSADES, 1031-1276
• CHAPTER VIII SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN SPAIN, 1031-1276
• CHAPTER IX MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS IN SPAIN, 1031-1276
• CHAPTER X DEVELOPMENT TOWARD NATIONAL UNITY: CASTILE, 1252-1479
• CHAPTER XI DEVELOPMENT TOWARD NATIONAL UNITY: ARAGON, 1276-1479
• CHAPTER XII SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN SPAIN, 1252-1479
• CHAPTER XIII THE CASTILIAN STATE, 1252-1479
• CHAPTER XIV THE ARAGONESE STATE, 1276-1479
• CHAPTER XV ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION IN SPAIN, 1252-1479
• CHAPTER XVI INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS IN SPAIN, 1252-1479
• CHAPTER XVII INSTITUTIONS OF OUTLYING HISPANIC STATES, 1252-1479
• CHAPTER XVIII ERA OF THE CATHOLIC KINGS, 1479-1517
• CHAPTER XIX SOCIAL REFORMS, 1479-1517
• CHAPTER XX POLITICAL REFORMS, 1479-1517
• CHAPTER XXI MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS, 1479-1517
• CHAPTER XXII CHARLES I OF SPAIN, 1516-1556
• CHAPTER XXIII THE REIGN OF PHILIP II, 1556-1598
• CHAPTER XXIV A CENTURY OF DECLINE, 1598-1700
• CHAPTER XXV SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1516-1700
• CHAPTER XXVI POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, 1516-1700
• CHAPTER XXVII RELIGION AND THE CHURCH, 1516-1700
• CHAPTER XXVIII ECONOMIC FACTORS, 1516-1700
• CHAPTER XXIX THE GOLDEN AGE: EDUCATION, PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, AND SCIENCE, 1516-1700
• CHAPTER XXX THE GOLDEN AGE: LITERATURE AND ART, 1516-1700
• CHAPTER XXXI THE EARLY BOURBONS, 1700-1759
• CHAPTER XXXII CHARLES III AND ENGLAND, 1759-1788
• CHAPTER XXXIII CHARLES IV AND FRANCE, 1788-1808
• CHAPTER XXXIV SPANISH SOCIETY, 1700-1808
• CHAPTER XXXV POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, 1700-1808
• CHAPTER XXXVI STATE AND CHURCH, 1700-1808
• CHAPTER XXXVII ECONOMIC REFORMS, 1700-1808
• CHAPTER XXXVIII INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITIES, 1700-1808
• CHAPTER XXXIX THE GROWTH OF LIBERALISM, 1808-1898
• CHAPTER XL THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY, 1898-1917