What caused the Spanish Empire's decline?

What caused the Spanish Empire's decline?

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the Spanish

economic problems, constant fighting in pointless wars, and poor leadership

Spanish explorers seemed like they were much more interested in screwing local women than establishing actual colonies.

Ironically enough the huge amounts of silver from their mines in America.

is this the inflation argument?

Yes it set the staging grounds for the century of stagnation, wars, and rise of France that would follow.

are you describing 21st century united states?

We lost everything but We won in the end

latin america isn't in such great shape these days

Oh shit this was on my history exam

1) inflation
1) nobility avoided tax
2) expel muslims/jews
3) never built pre industrial infrastructure
5) debt

>1, 1, 2, 3, 5
I have autism

>Battle of Manila Bay
So that's the point when America stopped pretending to be a champion of liberty

>expel muslims and jews
>american "education"

At first I was like" lmao okay shlomo" then he said it was because jews held prominent banking positions and it harmed the economy

Hollowed out local industry due to outsourcing to poorer nations like England using wealth pillaged from across the world.

Victory defeated them.

Napoleon. Their colonies were some of the best managed, but the chaos caused by the Peninsular War is what caused them to loose their grip.

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Charles II

Also, Muslims and Jews are encouraged to study their Holy texts, promoting at least basic literacy.

They reinvested all of their profits into their colonies. This hit them hard when they lost the Spanish Netherlands during the war of succession and their American colonies during the peninsula war. Iberia was still pretty underdeveloped and full of stupid peasants. The King of Spain was a global monarchy so don't confuse it with the modern concept of Spain.

Masons

>2) expel muslims/jews
This memes.WHy do lefties have to shove their ideology everywhere?

Jews were leeches.Spain had its own bankers that were not as toxic as jewish loaners.Spain experienced a huge economic boom after they were expelled

>Also, Muslims and Jews are encouraged to study their Holy texts, promoting at least basic literacy.
Chritians had higher literacy than muslims but lower literacy than jews.Reading as a hobby became a pretty common thing in the XVI in Spain

>source required

About what? The economy boomed, the population doubled in the next 50 years and the agricultural output increased.Just judging by the royal census Spain did much better after 1492 despite the continous European wars.
>inb4 america
Until Cortes conquered Mexico it was mostly a meme.And even then it wouldn't explain why the population of Castile doubled so quickly.On the other hand stealing the land of unproductive people (the jews) and giving it to christians explains this perfectly as agriculture>more food>more people

>Expel Muslims and Jews.
>Become super power.
Hmm.

OP said decline you illiterate fuck

His point was that Spain became a superpower after expelling the jews and the muslims,while the other dude claim that it was one of the reasons why the empire felt

Napoleon, USA
Silver inflation and awful economic guidance, and getting into wars with other european countries that were simply unsustainable specially considering the low population of spain for its size

Omg so many racists on this forum

lol that image is really fucking cool, made my day

Not an argument. Muslims and Jews had to do with Spain's decline more than anything.

Fucking burgers, everytime someone discusses the fall of an empire an American has to show up and scream "That's exactly what's happening to US!" This isn't about you, fuck off.

everything is about us

>2) expel muslims/jews

literal indoctrination

If it's any consolidation he used the R word on /ourguy/, so I wouldn't call him politically correct by any means

>Hating on Charlie
Your teacher is a moron

It wasn't hateful you sjw that's just what he called him

Their own foolish inconoetence when spending gold

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>It wasn't hateful you sjw that's just what he called him
Charlie was a genius.He is just an uninformed fuck

Lack of densely populated manufacturing centers, they didn't have the means to keep up with the latest military hardware and produce enough to secure their vast empire. Political instability then nixed any chance they had of at least making a token effort.

>Their own foolish inconoetence