- Move towards absolutism under Ferdinand and Isabella, Charles V, and Philip II
- Escorial Palace
- Spanish Inquisition -- effect on absolutism
- Ways the following events contributed to Spain's position of power:
- monarchs following Philip II: Philip III, Philip IV, and Charles V
- Spain's defeat in the Thirty Years War
- Treaty of the Pyrenees
- War of Spanish Succession
Questions to Consider
- How did the following monarchs attempt to strengthen the Spanish monarchy, and thus move towards absolutism? Ferdinand and Isabella, Charles V, and Philip II. To what extent were they successful?
- Consider their attempts to unify Spain religiously (through the Inquisition, the reconquista, and the Thirty Years War). Why was their strategy seen as absolutist? Why wasn't it successful?
- Why were the wars in the 17th century particularly damaging for absolutism in Spain?
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