The Spanish Empire began during the Age of Exploration and consisted of territories and colonies in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. It started with the Reconquista of Spain from Muslim rule in 1492 and the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas that same year, beginning the Spanish colonization there. Key events included the Spanish conquests of the Aztec Empire in 1521 and the Inca Empire, extending Spanish rule across large parts of the Americas over subsequent decades under the Habsburg monarchs. However, European wars weakened Spain economically in later centuries.

1. The Spanish Empire
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2. History Of Spain
• The Spanish consisted of the territories and colonies sended
directly by Spain in Europe, in America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It
started during the Age of Exploration and was one of the first global
empires.
• The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations
within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania.
• During the next 750 years, independent Muslim states happened,
and the entire area of Muslim control became known as Al-Andalus.
• Christian kingdoms in the north began the long and slow recovery
of the peninsula, a process called the, “Reconquista,” which
happened in 1492 with the fall of Granada.

3. Spanish Empire through the Aztecs
• The first voyage of “Christopher Columbus” to the
New World took place the same year, the
beginning of the Spanish Empire.
• The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was
one of the most important campaigns in the
Spanish colonization of the Americas.
• The invasion began in February 1519 and was
noticed on August 13, 1521, by a coalition army
of Spanish conquistadors and Tlaxcalan warriors.

4. Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire
• This was another important campaign in the
Spanish colonization of the Americas.
• This historic process of military conquest was
made by Spanish conquistadores and their
native allies.
• It was the first step in a long campaign that
took decades of fighting in the Americas of
this conquest. In years Spain extended its rule
over the Empire.

5. Habsburg Spain
• Over the 16th and 17th centuries (1506–1700),
when Spain was ruled by the major branch of the
Habsburg dynasty.
• Spain's European wars, however, led to economic
damage, and the latter part of the 17th century
saw a downfall of power under Habsburg Spain.
• After dominating Europe politically and militarily,
Spain experienced a bad time and with that went
under the later Habsburg kings.

6. (Continued)
• The Habsburg years were also a Spanish
Golden Age.
• Most outstanding figures of this period were:
Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Miguel de
Cervantes, Teresa of Ávila, Pedro Calderón de
la Barca, Francisco de Vitoria, Domingo de
Soto and Francisco Suárez.