The Spanish Empire rose in the late 15th century after the unification of Castile and Aragon and the voyages of Christopher Columbus, which opened vast territories in the Americas. Fueled by silver ...

Spanish colonial rule divided Mexico with a class system that still affects society today. The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country in ...

“The world’s most successful empires have been engineers’ creations.” This assertion, made by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo in “How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year ...