Spanish empire

The Spanish Empire

By Brittany Robb

HABSBURG SPAINo The House of Habsburg was a royal house of

Europe and is most recognized for being elected Holy Roman Emperors from 1438-1740 in addition to rulers of the Spanish Empire and Austrian Empire.

o The House of Habsburg was named after Otto II as Von Habsburg and gathered power in the 11th-13th centuries.

o Because of marriages between dynasties the family included Burgundy, Spain, Bohemia, Hungary as well as other territories into the inheritance.

o The Spanish branch ended after the death of Charles II in 1700

HASBURG SPAIN In the Onate treaty with the Austrian and

Spanish Habsburgs although the Spanish Habsburgs died out in 1700.

It was found that inbreeding between the 3,000 family members over 16 generations eventually led to their extinction.

With Spain and European wars it eventually led to economic damage and towards the end of the 17th century they saw a decline of power under the unkempt Habsburg regime.

The shift in power was during the Spanish Succession, which ended with the change of Spain going from a stand of leading western power to a secondary one.

THE SPANISH EMPIRE The Spanish Empire began during the age of exploration and was

one of the first global empires

At the time of Habsburgs Spain gained world power and it lasted from the 15th century through the end of the 20th century.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus commanded the first Spanish exploration. The Americas became the primary focus of Spanish exploration and colonization

The Spanish circumnavigation created by Ferdinand Mafellan in 1519 and was completed by Juan Sebastian Elcano in 1522 had achieved a westward route to Asia and the Spice Islands

The Spanish Empire In the 16th and 17th century it was sometimes said that the sun

never set and was known later on as “the Golden Age of Spain”.

During this era there was many marriage politics being debated in the Reyes Catolicos.

The Habsburg domains was transferred to Ferdinand who was the emperors brother although after the Castilian war was lost to the Castilian rebels, Charles was then known as the most powerful man in Europe.

The empire of the Spanish Golden age was controlled by Seville

Spanish East Indies Spanish territories in Asia-Pacific which

accumulated three centuries long was considered the Spanish East Indies

The King of Spain traditionally called himself the “King of the East and West Indies”

After the Spanish-American War in 1898, most of the islands were consumed by the United States while the rest of the territories were sold to Germany in the German-Spanish Treaty of 1899

On March 6, 1521 the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived at the Mariana Islands where the first Spanish contact began. He named Guam “Isla de ladrones” since some of his supplies were stolen from the galleon Trinidad

Manila Galleon Manila galleons were Spanish trading shipped

that sailed a couple times a year between Manila in the Philippines , Acapulco, and New Spain.

The discovery of the ocean passage by Andres de Urdaneta continued to be discovered until 1815 where the Mexican War of Independence stopped the galleon trade route indefinitely.

The galleons was a way of trade carrying spices, porcelain, ivory, lacquerware, and processed silk cloth which was gathered from both the Spice Islands and Asia-Pacific to be sold in America.

Even though Andres de Urfaneta sailed too far north before turning east his instincts were right and they hit the coast south to san Blas and later to Acapulco. Even with finding the coast most of the crew perished due to the long voyage and not being replenished enough with food.