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The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery.
- Birth of The Kingdom of Spain
- The Spanish Empire Expands
- Golden Age of Spain
- Decline and Fall of The Spanish Empire
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The story of the Spanish Empire begins in the early 15th century. This was the last century of the Reconquista (Re-conquest), the centuries-old campaign by Christian forces to retake the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim Arabs, who had conquered it in the 8th century. By the early 15th century, Muslim control of the Iberian Peninsula had been reduc...
By the time Spain became a united kingdom, it already controlled territory outside of the Iberian Peninsula, including the Canary Islands, Sardinia, and Sicily. In 1492, the Spaniards conquered Granada, thus destroying the last remaining Muslim outpost on the Iberian Peninsula. Coincidentally, this was the same year that Christopher Columbusset sai...
When King Charles I ascended the Spanish throne, he was able to rule about a quarter of Europe, not by conquest, but rather by inheritance because of the marital alliances established by the Reyes Catolicos (Catholic Kings) prior to his rule. He inherited Spain’s colonial possessions as well as the crowns of the Holy Roman Empire, the Low Countries...
From the 1640s onward, Spain faced a number of challenges. Rebellions against Spanish rule surfaced in Portugal, southern Italy, and Catalonia. The union with Portugal ended, though the Spaniards did manage to hang on to southern Italy and Catalonia. Spain did, however, lose territory in Europe over the course of the 17th century. In addition, the ...
Learn about the Spanish Empire, which controlled territory on five continents from the 15th to the 20th century. Explore its rise, peak, decline, and fall, and see a map of its extent.
The Spanish Empire became the foremost global power, dominating the oceans as well as European battlefields. Spain enjoyed a cultural golden age in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when silver and gold from American mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African wars.
A colonial period of nearly three centuries followed the major Spanish conquests. The empire was created in a time of rising European absolutism, which flourished in both Spain and Spanish America and reached its height in the 18th century. The overseas colonies became and remained the king’s private estate. Spanish colonial policies
13 de jun. de 2022 · Learn about the multiple levels of colonial government in the Spanish Empire, from the monarchy and Council of the Indies to the viceroy and local councils. Explore how they tried to balance wealth acquisition and Christian conversion in the Americas and the Philippines.
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- Colonial Spain had a highly-centralised and hierarchical form of government, where different levels and branches balanced out power so that no sing...
- Spanish America was politically organised into hierarchical levels: the Council of Indies, viceroys, corregidores, audiencias, and cabildos.
- The colonial government in the Spanish Empire was largely effective in achieving its aims. There was corruption, and decision-making was slow due t...
Learn how Spain became the most powerful European power in the New World through exploration, conquest, and trade. Explore the stories of Cortés, Pizarro, de Soto, and Coronado, and the impact of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
20 de out. de 2023 · The chapter explores the main interpretations of Spanish American independence, presents conflicting periodizations, and then discusses the events from the crisis of the empire, colonial reactions to the different phases of independence (1810-1814 and 1814-1830).