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THE COLONIAL CRISIS & THE ENLIGHTENMENT - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The eighteenth century was, for the Spanish colonies in America, a time of contradictions, some lived an economic and demographic boom while others languished and fell They were in crisis.
        
        In some regions, it would have to end, beginning of the 19th century, in the movements of independence
    - - Charles II, who he had no children, he appointed Felipe de Anjou as his successor, grandson of Louis XIV of France, and great-grandson of Philip IV, who was crowned with the title of Felipe V.
        
        The Habsburg dynasty ended and began the Spanish throne the dynasty of the Bourbons.
        
        The contest ended with the victory of Felipe V and the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, by which the European powers recognized him as king of Spain, but this one renounced any possible right to the French Crown.
  - - - Napoleon did not give up. To break the economy British and prevent everything from trade with Europe, decreed the continental blockade.
        
        While the Spanish armies were in Portugal, the French armies, with 65,000 effective, they completely controlled Spain by several years.
        
        The Spanish people rebelled against King Charles IV in 1808, who abdicated and left as sovereign to his son, Fernando VII.
    - - A group of French thinkers threw themselves to a gigantic company: summarize all the human knowledge in a collection of books they called the Encyclopedia.
        
        Thinkers, like Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, defended these ideas in the Encyclopedia and other books.
        
        These ideas added to the hunger of the people, they caused the Revolution to break out in 1789 French, who dethroned and executed King Louis XVI and to his wife María Antonieta
  - - - Economically, the Bourbons ordered that the colonies will not negotiate between them that they bought everything to Spain.
        
        The tobacconists, that is, the state monopoly of commerce were spreading to more and more products
        
        The alcabalas were the tax on the circulation of goods and they were charged until in the last town lost from the Andes to the Indians who left sell their vegetables in the markets.