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First mint of coins and use of money in the Iberian peninsula. Discovery voyages to the Atlantic by the Carthaginians. The Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus cites the word Iberia to designate what is now the Iberian Peninsula, according to ancient Greek costume. Urban bloom of Tartessian influenced Tavira. 575 BC
Iberian Middle Bronze Age Iberian Late Bronze Age. 5th millennium BC. Beginning of the Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula. Autochthonous development of Agriculture in Iberia. Beginning of the Megalithic European culture, spreading to most of Europe and having one of its oldest and main centres in the territory of modern Portugal.
A bronze dagger from Lorestan, Iran, 2600–2350 BCE A Neolithic dagger from the Muséum de Toulouse Pre-Roman Iberian iron dagger forged between the middle of the 5th and the 3rd century BC Bronze Age swords, Iranian Kurdistan, Museum of Sanandaj Iberian triangular iron dagger, c. 399–200 BC
Prehistory in Iberia spans around 60% of the Quaternary, with written history occupying just 0.08%. For the rest 40%, it was uninhabited by humans. [1] The Pleistocene, first epoch of Quaternary, was characterized by climate oscillations between ice ages and interglacials that produced significant changes in Iberia's orography.
The present chronology is a compilation that includes diverse and relatively uneven documents about different families of bladed weapons: swords, dress-swords, sabers, rapiers, foils, machetes, daggers, knives, arrowheads, etc..., with the sword references being the most numerous but not the unique included among the other listed references of the rest of bladed weapons.
The dagger was a common weapon of assassination and suicide; for example, the conspirators who stabbed Julius Caesar used pugiones. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The pugio developed from the daggers used by the Cantabrians of the Iberian peninsula.
Bollock dagger, rondel dagger, ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape) Poignard; Renaissance. Cinquedea (broad short sword) Misericorde (weapon) Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th) Modern. Bebut (Caucasus and Russia) Dirk (Scotland) Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany) Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
Towards the mid-16th century, however, polearms and companion weapons besides the dagger and the cape gradually began to fade out of treatises. In 1553, Camillo Agrippa was the first to define the prima, seconda, terza, and quarta guards (or hand-positions), which would remain the mainstay of Italian fencing into the next century and beyond. [8]