A Short History of Spain

The exciting and mysterious title "A Brief History of Spain" from Mary Parmele contains many mysteries. The book will talk about the time when the Spanish peninsula was neither "Spanish" nor "peninsula." This part of Europe was previously known as Iberia, and its inhabitants were known as Iberians. Time erased good memories about this Aboriginal race; but there is also a version that they came from the south and were allies of the Libyans who inhabited the northern coast of Africa. In the original Libyan language, 'Iberi' meant 'a free person'; and Berber, which is apparently derived from this word, was the term by which ancient Egyptians used to refer to Western folk. Also in this book you will learn how the Spanish empire began to expand into the New World across the ocean, marking the beginning of the Golden Age of Spain, during which, from the early 1500s to the 1650s, Spain Habsburg was one of the most powerful states in Europe.