The Iberians share in the Bronze Age…

The Iberians share in the Bronze Age revival (1900 to 1600 BCE) common throughout the Mediterranean basin.

In the east and the south of the Iberian Peninsula, a system of city-states is established, possibly through the amalgamation of tribal units into urban settlements.

Their governments follow  the older tribal pattern, and they are despotically governed by warrior and priestly castes.

A sophisticated urban society emerges with an economy based on gold and silver exports and on trade in tin and copper (which are plentiful in Spain) for bronze.

Phoenicians, and later, Greeks, and Carthaginians, will compete with the Iberians for control of Spain's coastline and the resources of the interior.