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The economy of Romanized Spain experienced a strong evolution during and after Rome’s conquest of the peninsular territory. Only after acquiring the land did the Roman Empire appreciate its value and potential. The Romans quickly maximized the land’s potential making it one of the largest financial supporters behind the surge of Rome. With their conquest of the Spanish peninsula, Rome acquired one of the largest labor forces of any of the Romanized territories. After quickly realizing this, Rome pushed to exploit this resource as soon as possible. During the era of Roman domination, Rome helped develop and expand Spain’s economy by creating road infrastructures and commercial routes which opened Spain’s markets to the rest of the empire. == Monetary circulation == One of most obvious foreign cultural influences in Spain was the coining of currency to facilitate commercial transactions. Before the Roman occupation, the peninsula’s economy was based on the barter system, exchanging products rather than currency. At the beginning of the third century BC., Greek colonies began coining local currencies. Later, Carthage introduced a more general currency so that their troops could have a uniformed form of payment. After the Roman invasion of Carthage, Rome imposed a uniformed currency in all of their territories, including the Spanish peninsula, which was supported and secured by the Roman treasury. Based on the large amount of low-value currency found dating back to this time, it appears that this currency was widely used for daily transactions. During Rome’s lengthy domination in Spain, many towns minted their own currencies to better facilitate local commercial trade in areas of low Roman control. Rome maintained a Republic during their occupation in the Spanish peninsula. The senate completely controlled the minting of currency through local magistrates in each of their territories. With the increase of dictators within the empire, the Senate’s control was more limited, transferring control of several of their mints to imperial control. Once power in the Spanish peninsula was united under the Roman Empire, there were already many mints producing currency, e.g. Tarragona, Italica, Barcelona and Zaragoza. Throughout the entire Roman Empire, around 400 currency mints provided currency to the majority of Europe, North Africa and in the Eastern Orient. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Economy of Romanized Spain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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