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THE SAPANISH HASBURGH DYNASTY - Coggle Diagram
THE SAPANISH HASBURGH DYNASTY
Religious wars
Political objectives
Retain territorial patrimony though wars
The riches form the Americas weren't enough to finance wars
Defend Catholicism + religious unity
Those who questioned Catholicism were punished
Index of forbidden books
Limpieza de sangre
to prevent conversors from gaining public positions
Kept the administrative system based on courts
16th century Spanish Monarchy most important of Europe
Habsburg dynasty (Carlos V-Felipe II)
Economy and society in the 16th century
Economy prospered thanks to the riches form the Americas
Felipe II organised fleet system
to ensure that the ships arrived to Spain
Consequences
Enriched the nobility but not the population
money wasn't invest in the Peninsula
Craft industry grew
demand form the Americas
high prices
they started buying them abroad
Enable the finance of numerous wars
More expensive projects started
when they needed money increase taxes
Economy was based in agriculture
population was extremally vulnerable
End of the 16th century
Major industries disapear
Fall of production and trade
Local small industries survive
Many people joined clergy to scape poverty
Spanish economy decline
