 The Iberian peninsula has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea and across Europe.In the two centuries before the Christian era, Roman rule brought with it the music and ideas of Ancient Greece; early Christians, who had their own differing versions of church music arrived during the height of the Roman Empire; the Visigoths, a Romanized Germanic people, who took control of the peninsula following the fall of the Roman Empire; the Moors and Jews in the Middle Ages.Hence, there have been more than two thousand years of internal and external influences and developments that have produced a large number of unique musical traditions.