The Spanish Empire didn’t rise overnight it was forged through conquests, unification, and the age of exploration. Discover how Spain transformed from fragmented kingdoms into a global superpower that ...

Learn why Simon Bolívar, once loyal to the Spanish crown, turned against the empire to lead Latin America’s push for ...

Exploring The Spanish Empire Robert Siegel talks with British historian Hugh Thomas about his new book, The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America. Author Interviews.

At the end of the 16th century, a solitary Spanish galleon plowed the Pacific between Asia and Acapulco, risking a perilous crossing to bring silver back from the Americas to Manila, where East Asian ...

A New History of the Spanish Empire, the Reddit Nightmare, and the Origins of Anthropology. Good morning. Lucara Diamond has operated the Karowe mine for seven years.

China: The new Spanish Empire? The Chinese crisis has important echoes of the Soviet Union and 16th-century Europe. And history tells us the outlook isn't pretty.

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Besides, mass emigration from Spain was always funneled to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, so there isn’t in the U.S. a diaspora, like that of the Italians or Irish, that clamors to keep ...

This assertion, made by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo in “How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History,” seems bold at first, almost audacious.