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The Economic Boom and Cultural Exchange in Ancient Iberia
TLDR The Iberian Peninsula experienced an economic boom and cultural exchange during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, with the emergence of new societies, the spread of artifacts and ideas, and the development of metalworking traditions. The Tartessians, a dominant group in southern Iberia, became incredibly wealthy through long-distance trade and the metal trade, transforming from a mobile society to one rooted in permanent settlements.
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In the centuries after 1000 BC, the Iberian Peninsula became the hinge between the Atlantic Bronze Age and the Mediterranean Iron Age, resulting in an economic boom, new settlement patterns, and sophisticated societies.
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In the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, Iberia experienced tremendous change and interaction with various cultures, resulting in the emergence of new societies and the re-exportation of Iberian developments to other regions.
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The beakers, a characteristic artifact, appeared in Western Iberia and spread to various regions, indicating connections between Iberia and the broader world; meanwhile, the Argaric culture emerged in southeastern Spain, marked by migration, violence, explosive growth, and the development of metalworking traditions and social inequality, while in the northwest of Iberia, a flourishing time was characterized by rising populations, increased settlement, deforestation, and agricultural growth.
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The flourishing of northwest Iberia during the late Bronze Age was an indigenous development that was not driven by increasing contacts with other places, but rather integrated into regional networks; however, during the Atlantic Bronze Age, traffic along the Atlantic seaboard picked up on a larger scale, tying communities from Portugal to Northern Europe together and remaking the western parts of Iberia in profound ways.
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The period between 1200 BC and 1000 BC saw the spread of the Earnfield culture and the development of fighting and feasting societies along the Atlantic Rim, with the movement of artifacts, people, ideas, and raw materials along these networks, particularly in the 10th and 9th centuries BC.
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In the Late Bronze Age, people in Western Europe, including Iberia, were making long-distance sea voyages and engaging in major migrations, with evidence suggesting that the movement of people and goods was extensive and that new styles of metalworking and weapons spread from Iberia to the rest of the Atlantic zone.
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The Tartessians of southern Iberia were the dominant group in a wealthy and highly connected region for 400 years, displaying complex division of labor, social hierarchy, urban settlements, political organization, and literacy, and while they became wealthy from Mediterranean trade and adopted elements of Mediterranean culture, they adapted them to their own local context.
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The Tartessians were not newcomers to long-distance trade or the metal trade, and their position as middlemen between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as the interior of Iberia, made them incredibly wealthy.
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The arrival of the Phoenicians in Iberia led to the transformation of the Tartesians from a mobile society to one rooted in large permanent settlements, with Huelva, the Guadalquivir estuary, and Cadiz becoming key trading centers.
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The Tartesians used a combination of enslavement, coercion, and migration to satisfy the demand for labor in the areas with metal deposits, leading to the growth of settlements and the emergence of a hybrid culture influenced by both the Venetians and the indigenous people.
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