Let's know about Spain: Introduction: The Decline of the Spanish Empire (video)

Welcome to our class blog

This is our new class blog. Here you will be able to learn and find some interesting information regarding the past of our country. We´ve covered since the Discovery of America until The Decline of the Spanish Empire.

This has been a cross curricular project that dealt with ICTs, English, and Social Sciences. But we´ve also included some literacy (interviews, poems...), Arts (describing famous paintings) and music (finding out about the sounds of those years).

We hope you enjoy it!

Los Robles 6th A class

miércoles, 8 de abril de 2015

Introduction: The Decline of the Spanish Empire (video)

The Decline of Spain & Emergence of Competing Powers: History & Quiz

Since the discovery of America , Spain became a vast and rich empire because of the gold , silver, and gems arrived from the new world .But After the death of Philip II in 1598 the Spanish Empire weakened and began to break up Economic crisis , combined with numerous national and international confrontation and battles contributed to the decline of the empire.

CAUSES OF THE DECLINE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE

The weakened of the economic and finance that came announced since the half of the century XVI
A military decline due to the definite defeat of the Spanish army from Flanders in 1643 in the Rocroi battle
An intellectual, social, and spiritual that happened in the middle of the century XVI
On the other hand, due to epidemics and periods of hunger.

The decline of Spain is divided in many branches: The Hapsburg kings, the War with the Netherlands, the War of the Spanish Succession, the kings and the first bourbon ruler.