Various questions regarding spain.

[Susi]

Okay so I have a project due tomorrow and I just have a few questions regarding Spain:

What is the primary ethnic/anthropological makeup of Spain?

Which population was there first?
What are some particular historical highlights?
Notable changes in politics, et cetera.

I also have a big project on benzene too.

[Llywarch Hen]

Oh well. Someone's got to do it!

Being in the southwestern corner of Europe, the Iberian Peninsula was a refuge for many groups from the north during the various Ice Ages. Most basic European anthropological types therefore have some representatives there. There's been some interaction [genetic, ethnic, political and cultural]with the afacing North African coasts, with the Mediterranean in general, with continental Europe over the Pyrenees, and up and down the Atlantic facade. I for instance am supposed to look not too unlike a Spaniard, and am yet half English half Irish.

If we look at historical, rather than archaeological aspects [which are open to interpretation anyway] the first known people were the Iberians. They created quite an advanced culture down in the far southwest of the peninsula, being marine traders, known as Tartessus, or the Tardesh [sp?] of the Bible. Classical writers [Strabo?] wrote that they even had an elaborate recorded history, going back centuries, but unfortunately lost. In the hinterland, things were less developed.
At some point in the later centuries BC, Celts arrived in the peninsula, giving the name Galicia to the northwestern corner, and mixing in the central regions with the Iberian natives to produce the Celtiberians.
With Phoenician influence, Levantine culture began to take root in coastal areas, and the Iberians began to use their own new alphabet.

The Phoenicians founded Carthage, and then began to compete with Rome, and so Hasdrubal and Hannibal conquered large territories in Iberia, and it's thought that the name Hispania owes its origin to the Carthaginians.

Rome won, of course, and so the land became a vital province of the Empire. Latin speech eventually predominated, giving us the modern languages of Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese/Galician, except in the far north, where the nonIndoEuropean Basque language survives as a relic of preIE western Europe. Basque doesn't seem to be a descendant of Iberian, but is rather connected to the Aquitanian language of preRoman southwestern Gaul, and so must have spread over the Pyrenees to the south and west.

Hispania escaped most of the troubles of the late Empire, but eventually was claimed by the Germanic Visigoths. The Vandals passed through on the way to North Africa, and the Suebi also established themselves in Galicia for a while.

Gothic Spain fell to Islam, was later retaken, and the rest is history.

[Susi]

Danke

But I want more information!

[Llywarch Hen]

You're not gunnae get any without asking some proper specific questions!

Hell, just give us your teacher's email, and we'll get rid of the middleman.

[Susi]

I don't have it. And I just wanted information! I must supply the ingenious rhetoric!

[Cirrus]

All you need to know is in this book :

[Waarnemer]

Spain - Uncyclopedia you're welcome

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Susi

Okay so I have a project due tomorrow and I just have a few questions regarding Spain:

What is the primary ethnic/anthropological makeup of Spain?

If DNA studies got it right, a Western Mediterranean Mesolithic derivative?

Which population was there first?

A Mesolithic population?

The Iberian and Celt influence in the Iberian Peninsula are processes of aculturisation and to some extents elements added to an older indigenous substratum.

Some even speculate over a Ligurian element before the Iberian. But this is uncertain.

What are some particular historical highlights?

You mean other than my birthday?

Notable changes in politics, et cetera.

December 6th, 1978 - Conspiracy Day, aka Constitution Day
January 1st, 1986 - Surrender Day, aka CEE (former EU) entry day

[Theobald]

Originally Posted by Waarnemer

Spain - Uncyclopedia you're welcome

I liked the article about France too.

“The problem with the french is they dont have a word for entrepreneur”

- George Bush


(PS : for Americans who will read this thread, entrepreneur is originally a French word )

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Theobald

“The problem with the french is they dont have a word for entrepreneur”

- George Bush

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Llywarch Hen

Norse runes indeed are a ripp-off.

[kyashan]

I have a question regarding Spain: are foreign movies and tv shows also dubbed in Catalan or Catalan speakers just watch them dubbed in stardard Spanish/Castillian?

[Ferran]

Originally Posted by kyashan

I have a question regarding Spain: are foreign movies and tv shows also dubbed in Catalan or Catalan speakers just watch them dubbed in stardard Spanish/Castillian?

Yes, they're all dubbed, both for TV and cinema (although with cinema there are many exceptions, like these films being not so popular). And the same happens with TV commercials btw, at least since the 80's.

[Susi]

Thanks for the information everyone! It will help with the continuation of my presentation tomorrow!

I'm making paella to feed everyone in my class. I really, really hope that I don't mess it up. I'm only using the vegetable ingredients because I think there are vegetarians and I am not going to go out and buy meat to make something for class.

Originally Posted by Theobald

I liked the article about France too.

“The problem with the french is they dont have a word for entrepreneur”

- George Bush


(PS : for Americans who will read this thread, entrepreneur is originally a French word )

"The problem with some people is that they don't know enough about loan-words" - Susi

And I live in the American continent and I speak French. SO THERE.

Originally Posted by Carnyx

Norse runes indeed are a ripp-off.

Although the sounds on the chart are completely different than the sounds of the eldar futhark (or letter equivalents if you will)

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Susi

Although the sounds on the chart are completely different than the sounds of the eldar futhark (or letter equivalents if you will)

Oh, they gave signs a different sound. How creative.

[Susi]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

Oh, they gave signs a different sound. How creative.