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The Abyss Wars

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After the Catholic monarch, his grandson became the king of Spain.

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Charles I inherited a great empire.

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Spanish kingdoms, lands in the Americas,

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and the Austrian and German territories of his paternal family.

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During his reign, Charles I was constantly at war.

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He fought against the ideas of Martin Luther in Germany.

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He was also in war against the French Kingdom.

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After his death, the empire was divided into two.

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His brother Ferdinand became emperor of Austrian and German territories.

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His son Philip received the rest of the empire, Hispanic kingdoms, and the dancing Americas, as Philip II of Spain.

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During the reign of Charles I, the Americas were colonized.

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Hernán Cortés conquered the Acre Empire, Mexico, and Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire, Peru.

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The new territories were divided in viceroyalties. The colonizers introduced Christianity and Castilian language and culture.

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They obtained many new crops and created an overseas commerce.

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Philip II continued defending his holy themes as his father did.

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Because of that, he fought against England with the invincible Almada, but he lost.

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He created the most powerful army in Europe, the Terpios.

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They fought and won the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto .

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Both Charles I and Philip II played as the Catholic Monarchs did. They had advisors and enforced the laws.

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They created new jobs as Jews, scribes and tax collectors, but only noble people could work in these positions.

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During the reign of Charles I, economy grew thanks to the new crops, gold and silver coming from America.

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The industry also improved because of the high production of cloth, arms, iron or leather.

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But in the second half of the 16th century, an economic crisis took place.

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They had to pay the workers, the army and the wolves.

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All the gold and silver was used to pay it.

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People grew poorer.

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After the death of Philip II in 1598, the monarchy suffered a social and economical crisis.

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The population decreased because of emigration to the American Hunger War.

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No one wanted to work the land and the amount of gold and silver was not enough to pay for everything.

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The monarchs of this age let their ministers govern.

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The Hispanic Empire lost against France, England and Holland in the Thirty Years' War.

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Philip IV signed the Peace of Westphalia and lost most of his European territories.

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Catalonia and Portugal also fought against Philip IV and Portugal became independent.

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The dynasty came to an end in 1700 after Charles II died without descendants.