History of the uk reading ex Read the following text and do the tests bellow. The Iberians

History of the UK

READING

Ex.1. Read the following text and do the tests bellow.

The Iberians

About 3 hundred years B.C. Many parts of Britain were inhabited by the

people who were called Iberians. The Iberians were a set of peoples

that Greek and Roman sources identified with that name in the eastern and

southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula at least from the 6th century BC.

The term Iberian, as used by the ancient authors, had two meanings. One,

more general, referred to the whole of the population of the Iberian Peninsula. The

other, more restricted, with an ethnic sense, to the people living in the eastern and

southern coasts of the Iberian,

The Iberians were not a clearly defined culture, ethnic group or political

entity. The name is instead a blanket term for a number of peoples belonging to a

pre-Roman Iron Age culture inhabiting the eastern and southeastern Iberian

Peninsula and who have been historically identified as "Iberian". Although these

peoples shared certain common features, they diverged widely in some respects.

The Roman and Greek sources often diverge about the precise location of

each Iberian people and also about the list of Iberian peoples.

The Iberians lived in isolated communities based on a tribal organization.

They also had knowledge of metalworking, including bronze

and agricultural techniques..

Greek colonists made the first historical reference to the Iberians in the 6th

century BC. The Greeks also dubbed as "Iberians" another people, currently known

as Caucasian Iberians. It is not known if there had been any type of connection

between the two peoples.

The styles of Iberian sculpture are divided geographically into Levantine,

Central, Southern, and Western groups, of which the Levantine group displays the

most Greek influence.