The Decline of Absolutist Spain

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The Decline of Absolutist Spain

• Jun Yung the Sophomore

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• Wealth from imported metals.
• 16th century domination

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Seeds of Disaster

• No middle class, poor or rich.
• Overseas trade drastically decreased.
• Slaves and lodes were disappearing.
• Inflation.
• Weak incompetent kings.

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Count-Duke of Olivares

• Gaspar de Guzman, ideas to gain revenue.
• Re-started a war with the Dutch.
• 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees.

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What does this show?

• if god had intended the rivers to be navigable,
  He would have made them so.
• -Royal council of Spain

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Don Quixote

• Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
• quixotic idealistic, but impractical.
• Don Quixote lives in a fantasy world, where he
  journeys and seeks military glory.