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Isabel I and Fernando II, called the Catholic Kings, they mirriage and united the Kingdoms of Catile and Aragon.
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Colombus set off with caravels, called Pinta, Santa Maria and Niña, from port of Palos de la Frontera, in Huelva.
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The expedition reached land. Colombus thought he had landed on an island in the Caribbean. Colombus thought he had arrived in Japan.
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Many people believed that Earth was flat.
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He became the king of Spain, called Carlos I.
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Felipe II became ruler of the largest empire of its time.
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The Netherlands rose up against Spanish rule.
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He defeated the Turks at the battle of lepanto
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The empire expanded more when the Kingdoms of Portugal came under Spanish rule.
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Although the armada was a powerful fleet of warship.
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After the death of Felipe II, the Spanish Empire weakened and began to break up.
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Spain became a powerful empire, the largest that has ever existed.
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The kings Felipe III, Felipe IV and Carlos II all had favourites called validos.
King Carlos II died without leavinga successor. -
The battle of Almansa. This was the decisive battle in the trriumph of Felipe V of Spain.
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The war of succession ended, with the singning of the Treaty Utrecht.
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Great Britain and Portugal disrupted trade routes between Spain and the Americas.
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The riot of Aranjuez forced Carlos IV to abdicate. His son became the next king, Fernando VII.
