This is episode 8 called Hispania: Principate and Romanization and in this episode you will learn:
SHOW NOTES
- What does Romanization mean
- What aspects Romanization involved
- Which were the key elements or causes for the Romanization of Hispania
- The internal elements that explain this process of acculturation
- Which were the different phases of Romanization and why wasn't the process geographically homogenous
- Which were the key economic sectors of Hispania during the Principate
- A discussion on the importance of the policies of colonization of Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus, as well as the Edict of Latinization of Vespasian
- Why did Vespasian issue the Edict of Latinization and what consequences did that have
- The reign of two Hispano-Roman Emperors: Trajan and Hadrian
- The decadence of the Roman Empire with the Antonine Plague under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus
- The Severan dynasty and how the Crisis of the Third Century started
