Akshay,+Konstantinos,+and+Artur's+Britain+and+Spain+Project

**The Origins:**
Beginning with Columbus' explorations of the late fifteenth century, Spain took the lead in developing an empire in the New World. The Spanish Empire extended across most of the Americas and into Asia in the sixteenth century.

**Economic system:**
==== The economy in Spanish empire was mostly based on trade. At its pick Spanish Empire controlled 13% of the Worlds land, so there were a variety of products transformed from one part of the empire to another. The most profitable jobs at that time were the once that had some kind of connection to trading business. ====

**Social system:**
==== As naturally born crusader states the crowns of Castile and Aragon were strongly compromised with the Catholic Church, as was the case of Portugal, since the depths of the Middle Ages. Spanish Empire had a control of many lends that had there own religion, so an extremely important part of the education was learning about Catholic Church. ====

====In general families stayed together for a long time. It was common for three generation of families to be living together under the same roof. It was a way to increase the household income and to help one another. Women were highly respected.====

Because Spanish Empire was this huge it also had strong political power in order to control its lend. As more lend the Spanish Empire owned as higher was its political strength.
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= = = = = = =The Rise Of Spanish Empire~ = When Spain had control of their wealth such as having in possesion of Caribbean, most of Mexico, Central America, the Philippines, Florida, and South America. Spain was conquered by the Muslims between **711 and 728**, and its reconquest began with Galicia, Leon, and Castile. By the 13th century, only Granada was left in Muslim hands, but disunity within the Christian kingdoms left it unconquered until **1492.** Christoper Colombo was ordered to sail "east" to get to India for trade, but sailed to **America.** He also found a small island and claimed it under Spains territory. In 1521 Hispaniola Cortez conquered the **Aztecs**. In that century the destiny of **Hispaniola** **Cortez** conquers other small civilizations and countries.

=The Fall Of Spanish Empire~=  Spain was ** very ** wealthy and distributed its wealth to other ally countries that needed it for foreign wars. England and France were some of the many countries that were getting riches from Spain. South America was a difficult continent to take under control, because of the distant trip and the lack of wealth it had. Spain took part directly in some wars including the Napoleonic War. It was the final key of ending the new age of Spanish empire. The empire fell from ** distributions to much ** of its wealth to forgien wars and not sustaining its own economy. = =



**The Legacy Of the Spanish Empire~** The Spanish empire has effected in today age. An example is in South America, the language and other utilities such as **guns, food, and animals** were brought to South America from Spain. As of today, the language spoken in South America is **spanish**. People in today's age dont realize the beauty of the art and architecture the Spanish Empire had. People dedicated museums to the other greatness of the Spanish Empire, but in **July 18, 2010.** It is going to be the first Art dedicated museum. The Hispanic arts were eclipsed or overshadowed by the Native American arts in scholarship, in the museums, as well as in private collections, said Donna Pierce, the museum's chief curator. In the early 20th century.