A SHORT HISTORY OF
SPAIN
BY
MARY PLATT PARMELE
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1906
COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY MARY PLATT PARMELE
COPYRIGHT, 1898, 1906, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
From the portrait by Titian.
Charles V.
PREFACE.
In presenting this book to the public theauthor can only reiterate what she has alreadysaid in works of a similar kind: that she hastried to exclude the mass of confusing detailswhich often make the reading of history adreary task; and to keep closely to those factswhich are vital to the unfolding of the narrative.This is done under a strong convictionthat the essential facts in history are thosewhich reveal and explain the development ofa nation, rather than the incidents, more orless entertaining, which have attended suchdevelopment. And also under another conviction:that a little, thoroughly comprehended,is better than much imperfectlyremembered and understood.
NEW YORK. June 15, 1898.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER II.
Struggle between Phenicians and Assyrians—Founding
of Carthage—Decline of Phenicia—Rise
of Roman Power—First Punic War, 9
CHAPTER III.
Hamilcar—Hannibal—Siege and Fall of Saguntum—Rome
Invades Spain—Scipio's Policy—Cadiz,
(Gades) Surrendered to the Romans—By What
Steps IBERIA Became SPAIN—Fall of Carthaginian
Power—How Spain Became a Roman
Province, 15
CHAPTER IV.
Sertorius—Story of the White Hind—Rome Fights
Her Own Battles on Spanish Soil—Battle of
Munda—Cæsar Declared Dictator—The Ides of
March—Octavius Augustus—Spain Latinized—Four
Hundred Years of Peace, 24
[pg viii]CHAPTER V.
Northern Races in the History of Civilization—Roman
Empire Expiring—Ataulfus—Attila and
the Huns—Theodoric—Evaric Completes Conquest
of Spanish Peninsula—Europe Teutonized—Difference
between Anglo-Saxon and
Latin Races, 30
CHAPTER VI.
Ulfilas—Arianism—The Spanish Language—Brunhilde—Leovigild—His
Son's Apostasy—Arianism
Ceases to be the Established Religion of
Spain, 39
CHAPTER VII.
Toledo—Church of Santa Maria—Wamba, 45