Chapter I

Ancient Iberia

Before the Roman Empire, the Iberians were people who lived in the areas which today are Spain and Portugal (It is still that today).

The thing was that they were not countries.. they were in tribes until the Roman Republic decided to rise up and took almost all the Balkans, the Middle East, a lot of North Africa, the Mediteranean, England, Wales and Iberia.

Somewhere around the Year 100 to 200, it declared itself the 'Roman Empire'.

Chapter II

The Umayyad Caliphate

The Ummayyad Caliphate was born in the year 750AD.

It was the remains of the Islamic Tribes raiding villages.

It almost had all of Iberia! It stretched from Portugal to India!

Chapter III

The Kingdom of Asturias

The Umayyads took almost all of Iberia, but not all. A small Kingdom known as Asturias (don't get mixed with Austria) lied neatly on the top of the peninsula, but an Empire comes and goes.

The Umayyad Calaphate started falling, then came more kingdoms in Iberia, such as Castile, Barthelona (Yes that is the real way to say Barcelona), Osona, Navarre, Urgell, Coimbra and Portugal.

However, Asturias was the most powerful of them all (for now). After a few years, it was divided into Galicia and Leon.

Chapter IV

The Rise of Castile and Aragon

In 1400, two Kingdoms, Castile and Aragon, took all of what today we know as Spain. The Kingdom of Portugal took some other land, while Aragon took it a step further and took most of the Mediterranean, but not for long. Since this was like a race between all the kingdoms on who is going to unite Iberia, Castile and Aragon were constantly at war with each other. This until the two kingdoms united with the marriage of the King of Castile and the Queen of Aragon.

They both made the Kingdom of Spain.

Now you think there would be a fight now between Spain and Portugal to unite Iberia. There wasn't ... they just kept the peninsula like that.

Chapter V

The Spanish Empire

Around the 1300-1500s, Portugal had already made a large Kingdom.

It took lots of countries as Colonies. It took Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. Spain decided to go even further and create an Empire. With Colombus discovering a new World, they took lots from it. They took almost all of South Africa, The Philippines, half of Italy, all of Central America, including Mexico, and even some parts of the USA. Well, the USA didn't really exist as independent at the time

In 1789, the newly independent USA let Spain take Flordia in the treaty of Paris. But Britian took a part of Spain called The Rock of Gibraltar (Today it still has it).

Chapter VI

The Iberian Union