"Stand up!"
After the history teacher Harland entered the classroom, the students stood up one after another amidst the shouts of the school committee.
"Hello, classmates!"
"Hello, teacher!"
"Sit down!"
When the students were seated, Harland picked up the chalk, turned around and wrote ten large characters on the blackboard.
Portuguese History - Medieval Period
After finishing writing, Harland said to the students: "Today, in this history lesson, I will continue to teach Portuguese history.
Before studying medieval history, I want to test your mastery of ancient history. I will check randomly below."
Harland looked at the list of student names posted on the podium and randomly picked one.
"Ace!"
The person whose name was called was a thin man.
"Which region and nation do we Portuguese and Brazilians originate from?"
"Teacher, we originate from the Lusitanians, a branch of the Celts in the Lusitania region."
"Well, I remember well, sit down."
After Haaland praised the boy, he continued to call the boy's name. This time, he named Angela, the representative of the history class.
"Angela! How the region of Lusitania became part of the Roman province of Lutania."
Angela, a beautiful and smart girl with excellent historical knowledge, said after thinking for a while.
"Rome annexed the Lusitania region through the Roman-Lusitanian War, also known as the Viriatian War.
This period of fighting history took place between 149 BC and 139 BC.
The historical background is that after Rome defeated Carthage in the Second Punic War, it began to expand its power in the Iberian Peninsula and massacred the Celts, thus triggering the war between the Lusitanians and the Romans.
Led by their leader Viriasius, the Lusitanians began to resist the Roman invasion.
Before the war, Viriasius won the support of a tribe through his speech. He prepared secretly for three years, connected multiple local tribes, and accumulated enough strength.
In 147 BC, when the Romans were in a stalemate under the city of Carthage, Viriasius led his troops to revolt. Since the number of troops was small at the beginning, Viriasius adopted a flexible guerrilla warfare method.
Covered by the complex terrain of Lusitania, only 1,000 people were able to contain the 10,000-strong Roman army.
The Roman Senate sent the consul Caius Vitellius to serve as the leader of the crusade. In the early days of the war, he attempted to divide and disintegrate the Lusitanians with bribery and leniency and fraudulent policies.
However, the famous Viriasius saw through Vitellius's plan, preserved Lucitania's power, ambushed Vitellius' army on Mount Tribola, defeated and killed the Romans
More than 4,000 people.
Viriasius became more and more courageous after that, and in two years he defeated three coaches sent by the Roman Senate: Gaius Plautius, Claudius Eumanus and
Gaius Negidius and Quintus Aemilianus.
The Roman Senate had no choice but to turn to the famous Scipio family, who sent the eldest son of Paulus, the hero of the Third Macedonian War, and Fabius, the younger brother of Scipio, the hero of the destruction of Carthage.
S. Aemilianus.
In 145 BC, Fabius came to Spain with an elite force of 15,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. Fabius initially defeated Viriasius, but failed to capture him alive. The latter quickly
He regrouped and killed another 3,000 Romans in a counterattack.
With the continuous victories of Viriasius, the Lusitanians had begun to threaten the Roman rule in southeastern Iberia. Another local tribe oppressed by the Romans, the Numantians, were inspired and also
An uprising is beginning to brew.
In 142 BC, seeing that there was still no achievement after three years of campaigning, Fabius felt a little unbearable and left first. However, before leaving, he handed over the combat command to his adopted son, Fabius, who was only 27 years old.
Us Servilius, when the latter came to Spain, he brought 18,000 infantry and 16,000 cavalry, in addition to 10 war elephants presented by the King of Numidia.
At this time, Viriasius only had 6,000 troops. After Servilius drove him back to Lusitania, he turned to attack some of Viriasius' tribal allies and allowed them to surrender and start anew. This strategy
Some successes were achieved. However, in the subsequent battle to pursue Viriasius, Severianus also encountered an ambush, and Rome was defeated.
Taking advantage of the victory, Viriasius lost no time and made a peace declaration in 139 BC. In view of the huge cost of the Lusitania War but no huge benefits, the Roman Senate agreed to make peace.
During the negotiation process, the Romans reneged, and Viriasius was stabbed to death by a traitor bought by the Romans, causing the war to continue.
Later, the Lusitanians elected Tantalus as their successor leader and began to take revenge on the Romans.
But they failed when they attacked Rome's New Carthage. The Roman general Scipio sent troops to pursue them. In desperation, the Lusitanians surrendered to Scipio.
In order to ease the conflict and avoid causing bloody wars, Scipio gave them land after disarming them, thus officially ending the Viriasian War.
After the war, Rome divided the Lusitania region into a province, and the Lusitania and the immigrated Romans also began to merge, forming the Lusitania Romans."
Angela is worthy of being the representative of the history class and has a solid grasp of the Lusitania War.
She vividly described the details of the war between the two peoples, and narrated the process of Lusitania becoming a province and Lusitania becoming Romans.
"Well said.
Both the Portuguese and the Brazilians have never been composed of a single ethnic group, but a fusion of multiple ethnic groups.
Just like our Brazil now, our Brazilian region is still attracting immigrants from various ethnic groups. In the near future, they will also integrate into Brazil and become part of us Brazilians.
The Portuguese are composed of multiple ethnic groups, first the Celts of Lusitania, and then merged with the Romans to form Roman citizens in the Roman province of Lusitania.
The Roman Republic and the Roman Empire conquered many parts of Europe and merged with many ethnic groups. One of our ancestors, the Lusitanians, was also part of this process."
After Haaland summarized the previous historical points, he began to pave the way for a new lesson.
"The Roman Republic and the Roman Empire were undoubtedly great and glorious. The Iberian Peninsula also gave birth to many Roman emperors during the Roman Empire.
However, in the subsequent brutal political struggles and barbarian invasions, the Roman Empire split into two Eastern and Western Romes. The Western Rome began to collapse and eventually perished due to chaos and improper policies.
After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the next step was the Middle Ages. This is also the lesson we are going to take now.
The Middle Ages, also known as the Middle Ages, refers to the period from the late 5th century AD to the mid-15th century AD. It is an intermediate period between the three major traditions of European history: the classical era, the Middle Ages, and modern times.
It began with the demise of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, ended with the demise of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453 AD, and finally integrated into the Renaissance and the great geographical discoveries of the Age of Discovery.
Medieval history itself is also divided into three stages: the early, middle and late stages. The historical terms "Dark Ages" and "Dark Ages" generally refer to the early Middle Ages.
During this dark period, the Suebi Kingdom of the First Galician Age was formed near Lusitania, which was also the predecessor of our nation."
This chapter has been completed!