Depending on local laws and specific court policies, exemptions MAY include persons over age 70, and those having recently served on a jury (usually within 1-3 years depending on county policy). In the state of Maryland, there are possible exemptions for armed forces on active duty.
The ancestry of modern Iberians (Spanish and Portuguese) is consistent with the geographical situation of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west corner of Europe.-chromosome analysis had suggested Paleolithic ancestry among populations in the Iberian Peninsula and that Iberia may have played a role in the re-population of western Europe after the last glaciation.
EspaÃ±ol FranÃ§ais PortuguÃªs Ø§ÙØ¹Ø±Ø¨ÙØ©. The Muslim Conquest of Spain. The Iberian Peninsula had been one of the wealthiest parts of the vanquished Roman Empire until it was overrun by Germanic tribes in the 5th Century AD. The Germanic tribe that came to dominate Iberia was the Visigoths, but their reign would be short.