Originally Posted by
blogen
Phoenician colonisation and cultural influence in the Western Mediterranean region. Nothing new, Iberia never formed an isolated civilization, the strong commercial contacts joined it to the Mediterranean parts of the Oriental civilizations. The South Iberaian region's oriental contacts were stronger than all other contacts. This existed since the neolithic already and expanded on a much bigger area, but the Celtic and other Indo-European conquest pressed the original oriental influented folks back onto the coasts before the Romans arrived.