Spain | Facts, Culture, History, & Points of Interest - The early Bourbons, 1700-53 | B... - 0 views
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Spain’s central problem in the 17th century had been to maintain what remained of its European possessions and to retain control of its American empire
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In the 17th century the greatest threat had come from a land power, France, jealous of Habsburg power in Europe; in the 18th it was to come from a sea power, England, while the Austrian Habsburgs became the main continental enemy of Spain
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In 1700 (by the will of the childless Charles II) the duc d’Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV of France, became Philip V of Spain
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