WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Control was gradually extended over most of the Iberian Peninsula without annexations. It was completed after the end of the Roman Republic (27 BC), by Augustus, the first Roman emperor, who annexed the whole of the peninsula to the Roman Empire in 19 BC.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hispania, in Roman times, region comprising the Iberian Peninsula, now occupied by Portugal and Spain.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 200 BC, the Roman Republic had conquered Italy, and over the following two centuries it conquered Greece and Spain, the North African coast, much of the Middle East, modern-day France, and even the remote island of Britain. In 27 BC, the republic became an empire, which endured for another 400 years.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overview. Under Roman control, the Iberian Peninsula prospers commercially and politically in the first and second centuries A.D., until the Moors attack from North Africa in the latter part of the second century. The Franks from the middle and lower Rhine regions devastate the Hispanic provinces in the third century.

Detailed explanation-5: -In all, the Romans controlled the Iberian Peninsula for roughly six hundred years, more than enough time to leave a lasting impression.