HISTORY OF SPAIN

The Iberian peninsula, called SPAIN, only is contiguous to Europa's continent for the side of France, from which her the mounts separate Pyrenees. It is abundant in gold, silver, iron coats with quicksilver, stones, mineral waters, cattles, it goes fishing galore.

This happy situation her did object of the greed of the Phoenicians and other peoples. The Carthaginians for deceit and part for force, established in her; and the Romans wanted to complete his power and glory with the conquest of SPAIN; but encontrarón a resistance, which seemed to be strange as terrible to the haughty owners of the remaining of the world.

Numantia, an alone city, cost them 14 years of site, the loss of three armies and the dishonour of the famous general mas, until reduced the inhabitants of Numantia to the precision of coming to terms or dying, for the total ruin of the mother land, inflamed his houses his wives, children and elders threw in the flames and went out to die in the level field with the weapon in the hand.

The big Escipión was a witness of the ruin of Numantia, since he cannot be called properly a conqueror of the city: being of noticing that Lúculo, entrusted to raise an army for that expedition, did not find in the Roman youth recruits that to take, until the same Escipión ready to encourage her..

If the Romans knew the value of the Spanish, as enemies, also they experienced his virtue as allies. Sagunto suffered for them an equal site to that of Numantia against the Carthaginians and since then the Romans of the Spanish formed the high concept that one sees in his authors, speakers, historians, and poets. But the fortune of Rome, superior to the human value, her did lady of SPAIN, since of the remaining of the world, less some mounts of Cantabria, which total conquest does not consist in the history so that it could not be doubted.