5-Felipe II

DOMESTIC PROBLEMS

A GLOBAL EMPIRE

Carlos V

divided the impare

to the difficulties he experienced in controlling them

He gave Austria

1580

Imperial Crown to his brother Ferdinand

son Felipe II was given the rest of his territorial patrimony

The Low Countries and Franche-Comté.

Castilla and his territories in the Americas

The Crown of Aragón and his Italian territories.

the king of Portugal died

defeated the Portuguese nobles who opposed these territories being taken by the Spanish Monarchy

Felipe II increased bureaucracy by founding the Council of Portugal and granting more power to the secretaries

Antonio Pérez

the kingdoms on the Peninsula

although they maintained their own institutions and specific law

was accused of an assassination in Castilla he was able to take refuge in Aragón

exercising his rights under the laws of this kingdom

Carlos V had left the Crown in financial ruin.

than the income it received and Felipe II had to declare the Crown bankrupt

The policy of imposing Catholicism and discriminating

War of the Alpujarras

was finally suppressed the army led by John of Austria in 1570.

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against the religious minorities caused the Moriscos in Granada to revolt in 1568.

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