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Absolute Monarchs Spanish Power Grows

By the 1500’s Spain had emerged as a world power! After Ferdinand and Isabella, Charles V ruled Spain. Charles ruled Spain and the Hapsburg Empire. Hapsburg Empire. Absolute Monarchs Spanish Power Grows.

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Absolute Monarchs Spanish Power Grows

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  1. By the 1500’s Spain had emerged as a world power! After Ferdinand and Isabella, Charles V ruled Spain. Charles ruled Spain and the Hapsburg Empire. Hapsburg Empire Absolute MonarchsSpanish Power Grows

  2. Ruling TWO empires took a toll on Charles; he gave some land to his brother, Ferdinand and the majority to his son Philip II. Philip ruled Spain for 42 years. Using riches from the Americas, Spain became a formidable power. Absolute MonarchsSpanish Power Grows

  3. Absolute MonarchsSpanish Power Grows • About Philip: • Devoted all of his time to government work. • Seldom hunted or jousted. • Lived like a monk. • His home, Escorial, served as a church, residence, and tomb for royal family.

  4. Philip ruled as an absolute monarch, or a ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of the people. Divine right – authority to rule came directly from God. Absolute MonarchsSpanish Power Grows

  5. Absolute MonarchsSpanish Power Grows • Philip fought many wars to promote Spanish Catholic power. • In the 1580’s he saw Elizabeth of England as his chief Protestant enemy. (A few years earlier…he had tried to marry her!) • In 1588 he raised a huge armada, or fleet of ships, to carry a Spanish invasion to England.

  6. Spanish Armada Facts: 130 Ships 20,000 men 2,400 artillery The armada was whipped by Elizabeth’s navy and sent home a loser. Absolute MonarchsSpanish Power Grows

  7. Absolute MonarchsSpanish Power Grows • The defeat of the armada marked the decline of Spanish power. • By the 1600’s and 1700’s, Spain was no longer a major power.

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