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Spain's mineral wealth and access to metals made it a key source of raw material during the early metal ages. Carthage conquered parts of Iberia after the First Punic War. After conquering Carthage in the Second Punic War , the Romans governed all of the Iberian Peninsula for centuries, expanding and diversifying the economy and extending ...
Catalonia, especially Barcelona, was the first part of Spain to industrialize. This early industrialization and the new economic problems associated with it led to even more of a break with the central government and culture. [66] Catalan industrialists often lobbied for trade protection and opposed trade treaties with other countries. [67] [68]
Regardless of the adverse circumstances prevailing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (es: crisis del Antiguo Régimen), the key to what was more and more coming to be perceived as "Spanish backwardness" was the survival of certain pre-industrial socio-economic structures, at the decisive moment when the Industrial Revolution began in ...
The History of early childhood care and education (ECCE) refers to the development of care and education of children between birth and eight years old throughout history. ECCE has a global scope, and caring for and educating young children has always been an integral part of human societies.
The Industrial Revolution spread southwards and eastwards from its origins in Northwest Europe. After the Convention of Kanagawa issued by Commodore Matthew C. Perry forced Japan to open the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade, the Japanese government realised that drastic reforms were necessary to stave off Western influence.
After an initial period in which Spain tried to build an autarky, in which the economy improved little, Franco's regime changed its economic policies in 1959 and in the 1960s and early 1970s the economy entered a period of rapid economic expansion that became known as the Spanish Miracle. International firms established their factories in Spain ...
The history of education in Spain is marked by political struggles and the progress of modern societies. It began in the late Middle Ages , very close to the clergy and the nobility, and during the Renaissance it passed into the domain of a thriving bourgeois class that led an incipient enlightenment in the so-called Age of Enlightenment .
The collapse of the Western Roman Empire did not lead to the same wholesale destruction of classical society as happened in areas like Roman Britain, Gaul and Germania Inferior during the Early Middle Ages, although the institutions and infrastructure did decline. Spain's languages, its religion, and the basis of its laws originate from this ...