2. o The House of Habsburg was a royal house of Europe and
is most recognized for being elected Holy Roman
Emperors from 1438-1740 in addition to rulers of the
Spanish Empire and Austrian Empire.
o The House of Habsburg was named after Otto II as Von
Habsburg and gathered power in the 11th-13th centuries.
o Because of marriages between dynasties the family
included Burgundy, Spain, Bohemia, Hungary as well as
other territories into the inheritance.
o The Spanish branch ended after the death of Charles II in
1700
3. In the Onate treaty with the Austrian and Spanish
Habsburgs although the Spanish Habsburgs died
out in 1700.
It was found that inbreeding between the 3,000
family members over 16 generations eventually led
to their extinction.
With Spain and European wars it eventually led to
economic damage and towards the end of the 17th
century they saw a decline of power under the
unkempt Habsburg regime.
The shift in power was during the Spanish
Succession, which ended with the change of Spain
going from a stand of leading western power to a
secondary one.
4. The Spanish Empire began during the age of exploration and was one of the first
global empires
At the time of Habsburgs Spain gained world power and it lasted from the 15th
century through the end of the 20th century.
In 1492 Christopher Columbus commanded the first Spanish exploration. The
Americas became the primary focus of Spanish exploration and colonization
The Spanish circumnavigation created by Ferdinand Mafellan in 1519 and was
completed by Juan Sebastian Elcano in 1522 had achieved a westward route to Asia
and the Spice Islands
5. In the 16th and 17th century it was sometimes said that the sun never set and was
known later on as “the Golden Age of Spain”.
During this era there was many marriage politics being debated in the Reyes
Catolicos.
The Habsburg domains was transferred to Ferdinand who was the emperors
brother although after the Castilian war was lost to the Castilian rebels, Charles
was then known as the most powerful man in Europe.
The empire of the Spanish Golden age was controlled by Seville
6. Spanish territories in Asia-Pacific which accumulated
three centuries long was considered the Spanish East
Indies
The King of Spain traditionally called himself the “King of
the East and West Indies”
After the Spanish-American War in 1898, most of the
islands were consumed by the United States while the rest
of the territories were sold to Germany in the German-
Spanish Treaty of 1899
On March 6, 1521 the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand
Magellan arrived at the Mariana Islands where the first
Spanish contact began. He named Guam “Isla de ladrones”
since some of his supplies were stolen from the galleon
Trinidad
7. Manila galleons were Spanish trading shipped that sailed a
couple times a year between Manila in the Philippines ,
Acapulco, and New Spain.
The discovery of the ocean passage by Andres de Urdaneta
continued to be discovered until 1815 where the Mexican
War of Independence stopped the galleon trade route
indefinitely.
The galleons was a way of trade carrying spices, porcelain,
ivory, lacquerware, and processed silk cloth which was
gathered from both the Spice Islands and Asia-Pacific to
be sold in America.
Even though Andres de Urfaneta sailed too far north
before turning east his instincts were right and they hit the
coast south to san Blas and later to Acapulco. Even with
finding the coast most of the crew perished due to the long
voyage and not being replenished enough with food.
