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The Golden Age of Spain
Chapter 19:i
The Habsburg Empire
“Others shall wage war; you O happy Austria, shall marry!”
-Hapsburg saying
Holy Roman emperor
Maximilian I established
the Habsburg dynasty as an international
European power.
The Habsburg empire reached its greatest size
under Charles V.
The Protestant Reformation
began in Germany during the
early years of Charles’ reign.
Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Habsburg lands in central Europe were threatened by the expanding
Ottoman Turkish empire.
Exhausted from governing such a large empire, Charles V divided the Habsburg lands between his brother and son.
• brother Ferdinand I became king of Austria and was elected Holy Roman emperor
Philip II received the rest of the Habsburg domains.
Spain was the most powerful nation in Europe during
Philip II’s reign
(1556-98).
Philip II ruled as an absolute monarch.
Philip II’s attacks on Turkish strongholds in the Mediterranean were part of his crusade to revive
Christianity.
Battle of Lepanto
The seven northern
provinces of the Spanish Netherlands
declared their independence
in 1581.
English “sea dogs,” such as
Sir Francis Drake, attacked Spanish ports in
the Americas and captured
Spanish ships.
St. Augustine
Queen Elizabeth I
made Drake a knight,
which infuriated Philip II.
In 1588 Philip II sent an armada of 130 vessels carrying 60,000 soldiers
to invade England.
Only about sixty of the original
130 ships made it back to Spain.
Spanish culture blossomed under the reign of Philip II.
The period from 1550 to 1650 is
called the “Century of Gold.”
Cervantes
Cervantes’ Don Quixote took place in La Mancha.
Lope de Vega
Francisco Suarez
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The Cretan-born El Greco expressed intense religious feelings in his art.
El Greco developed surrealistic a style of art which used
distorted faces and bodies to produce a
dramatic effect.
The Spanish artist Diego Velazquez was known for his life-
like portraits.
Velazquez is best
known for his
paintings of court life in
Madrid.
A Troubled Economy
Moriscoes
