2007-08-20 02:39:14 · 7 answers · asked by :D 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Monarchy.
2007-08-20 02:42:55 · answer #1 · answered by Fiona Volpe © 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
monarchy.....despotic monarchy....kinda like everywhere else at that time....ferdinand and isabella brought their two kingdoms together to create a united spain under a single throne....and then decided that it was time for them to establish their presence in the world....and for that they needed a good military and lots of money....and both were accomplished by building huge ships and armies of conquistadors and financing it with the gold they got from the New World conquered by these very conquistadors.
however interesting fact is that even after all the gold that the Spanish hauled from the New World, they forgot one important principle in economics and that was that it is not the gold contained in a nation's treasury that is its wealth, but the goods that can be bought with gold. England remembered that and that's why it did not join in the mad race for gold, but instead focused on the real wealth, land and crops, which were plentiful in America. we could now have been speaking spanish all over the world had the conquistadors put their attention to lands a little bit to the north!!!!
2007-08-20 14:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by dj d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monarchy, or rather Empire, for in 1547 Spain was ruled by Charles V of Habsburg, King ( Charles I) of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Germanic Empire.
2007-08-20 09:55:47 · answer #3 · answered by simonetta 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spain was a monarchy at the time. The conquistadors were sent to bring gold back to enrich the king.
2007-08-20 09:53:53 · answer #4 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a kingdom. the catolics kings, Isabel of Castilla and Fernando of Aragón(the Kings of Sapin in the 1492), joined the kingdoms of Castilla and Aragón. Fernando was King of Aragón and Isabel Queen of Castilla. They married and they joined their kingdoms. these kings renconquered the iberian peninsula from the muslims. they were the Kings when Columbus discovered America. their sucessor Carlos I of Spain (Carlos V of the Holy Roman Germanic Empire) was the king of the kingdom of Spain in 1547. He created the Virreinato of Perú
2007-08-20 11:07:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could be beheaded at the Whim of the King!
2007-08-20 19:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by beth l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just a kingdoom: both isabel and fernando. they trew away. the jeweus
and the gypsy out of spain.
2007-08-20 10:03:35 · answer #7 · answered by manuel r 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋