Why did the Spanish Empire collapse?

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Why did the Spanish Empire collapse?

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History Of The World: The Last Five Hundred Years by Bonanza Books

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Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Yale University Press

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[Knowledgia]

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[SPQRTejano]

"I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success." Otto Bismark

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Spanish Empire: We are the Empire on which the sun never sets
British Empire: Nice nickname you've got there. Would be a shame if someone stole it...

[justinianthegreat]

Ah yes the good old times when texas was still called New Philippines

[Eevcee]

After learning how much Isabella and Ferdinand labored to keep the throne from going to Joanna and thus her Habsburg husband, it’s kind of tragic to know their Habsburg grandson (he did not grow up in Castile like they wanted and had no real love for it) ruined everything they built.

[armandom.s.]

If you ask why Spain was always fighting random wars against protestants, remember that nationalism didn't exist at this time, so religious unity was a quite good way to keep Italians, Spanish, Dutch and all other peoples united under the same empire, or at least they thought so.
Edit for those that says nationalism always existed: Sources. This statement seems an incorrect interpretation of ancient societies based upon contemporary concept of nation. Nationalism was developed in late 1700's, when capitalist order and post-Westphalian politics couldn't use monarchic loyalty or religious unity to keep a social cohesion. The idea of accepting same language and traditions as well as a supposed common past as a more important factor than religion or client relations is a 19th century worldview. This does not exclude than ancient societies had language as a more or less unifying factor, but it can't be called nationalism as we understood it today. Nations are not objetive beings, but they only exist as a shared idea by a community. That require a common imposed dialect, history and identity established by state-driven education system, and does not appear spontaneously by any other means.

[alext]

Never mentioned Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea, in which Spain held until the mid 1900’s

[hoponpop]

The Empire had Wars with England, Holland, France, The Ottoman’s, Denmark, Sweden, Bohemia and Portugal .
Many working in concert with each other .
What could possible go wrong .

[world_mem]

Nearly 600 million native Spanish-speakers, This block should be a much more relevant global power!

[odysseus]

Even though Emperor Charles in 1500 owned one third of the world's gold, his son bankrupted Spain 6 times by 1600.

[jesseg.]

I'm 40 but still love to learn history.Please keep it free, I'm poor guy.

[Labeau]

-"You see, the Roman Republic had a troubled relationship with Carthage and tensions began when Hannibal besieged Saguntum..."
- "But I only want to know about the fall of the Spanish Empire"
-"WE'LL GET THERE WHEN WE GET THERE"

[anon]

Spain was the FIRST global empire. The quote: "the empire where the sun never sets" was first USED for SPAIN

[norbertkrafcsik]

Damn, during the Napoleonic wars the "S" really was silent in "Spain"

[currentcommentor]

The other impressive thing is how soon after the Reconquesta the Spanish empire started.

[eurasiaacaci.-]

The world is really is full of rubble from empires that once thought they are eternal

[benb]

What you lightly touched on here but needed to discuss more was the fact that Spanish aristocrats intentionally refused to reform Spain from an agrarian to an industrial society; they were deeply invested in the status quo as landed gentry. The entire economy atrophied as its colonial peers entered a new industrial age. When Spain's colonial subjects in South America pushed back against its strict control over economic production, and advocated for industrial reform, Spain's crack down and the subsequent revolutions reached a scale and brutality unseen in North America. Spain again and again floundered because those in power became a cancer preventing the empire from evolving over time.

[treystewart]

Technically you could argue that the Spanish Empire truly ended after Spain lost their few colonies in Africa. These included small territories in northern and western Morocco, Spanish Sahara, and Spanish Guinea.

[MisterKalimotxo]

Girls: "Guys don't have feelings, I can't believe he didn't cry with Titanic"
Boys: [cries watching this video]

[Walt]

As a Honduran, we’ve always been told that the Napoleonic invasion was one of the causes for the independence fights in the Americas. Now we know that Spain itself was paving the way centuries before.