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Dec 25, 2017 · We can see extensive coverage by the Spanish Empire, but we need to look at dates. Spanish Louisiana looks huge, but: Louisiana (Spanish: Luisiana) was the name of an administrative district of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1762 to 1802 that consisted of territory west of the Mississippi River basin, plus New Orleans. Spain acquired the ...
Spain enjoyed a cultural golden age in the 16th and 17th centuries. The French, Portuguese, and British tried to weaken the Spanish monarchy. Starting in the second half of the 17th century, the Spanish Empire began to suffer bankruptcies, and its military began to lose battles. In the 19th century, Spain lost its last major territories ...
The Spanish ( 3:44) So, the Spanish arrived in Mexico in 1519, and in Peru in 1532, benefiting in both cases from total chaos due to disease. And after conquering the Inca and the Aztecs, they created an empire with two administrative divisions. The Vice royalty of New Spain, founded in 1521, and the Vice royalty of Peru, founded in 1542.
Spain projected power through its armies; when their military power waned, the empire crumbled. Mind you, as with many other large empires, the decadence of the Spanish Empire didn't happen overnight. The failure of the Spanish Armada didn't ruin the empire, which remained a juggernaut in land warfare until their defeat at Rocroi in 1643.
The tiny country of Spain did some things that had global effects—many of which were not so positive. This video explores the Spanish conquest and silver extraction in the Americas, showing how aspects of Aztec and Incan society set the stage for what would come. It then takes us to other places, like China, where silver flowed.
From 1521 to 1821, the land that is now Utah was claimed by Spain, a country in Europe. The Spanish Empire (also called New Spain) stretched from South America through Mexico all the way to Oregon. Spain colonized these lands for over 300 years. Spain’s colonies in North America were not all the same.
In How the Spanish Empire Was Built: a 400-year History (Reaktion, 2024) Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Dr. Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade ...
