• Warm Up: Music: Fandango
• Objective: Trace development of Spanish power and the tyranny of absolute rule
• Standard: 10:1.2
• Homework: Cornell Notes 155-161
• Extra Credit: Girl with a Pearl Earring

• Unification (Ferdinand and Isabella) of Aragon, Castille, invasion of
Granada In 1490’s
• Charles V Holy Roman Emperor
(1555- Charles splits Empire gives brother Holy Roman Empire. Gives
Spain and rich Netherlands to son.)
• Phillip II takes Portugal – Lived in a large granite palace Escorial
• Phillip II felt that it was his duty to defend the Catholic church
• 1566 Iconoclastic rioting breaks out in
Flanders Phillip sends in troops led by duke of Alva

“ The first characteristic of the sovereign prince is the power to make general and special laws, but- and this qualification is important- without the consent of superiors, equals or inferiors. If the prince requires the consent of superiors then he is subject himself, if that of equals, he shares the authority, if that of subjects, senate or people he is not sovereign”

• 1568- Rebellion of Moors in Southern Spain due to intolerance
• Royal Share in the
Americas about 1/5 (most spent on wars)
• Between 1550-1650
339,000 lbs. Of gold and
16,000 tons of silver

• 1571- Battle of
Lepanto (Moors attack
Spain
• 1572- Sea Beggars
(Dutch Pirates) attack
Spanish
• 1576- Spanish Sack
Antwerp

• Patrons of the art (El
Greco and Velazquez)
• Cervantes and Don
Quixote

“He rushed with Bavieca utmost speed upon the first windmill he could come at, and, running his lance into the sail, the wind whirled about with such a swiftness, that the rapidity of the motion presently broke the lance into shivers, and hurled away both knight and horse along with it, till down he fell, rolling a good way off the field”

• Charles V was able to avoid problems
• Anabaptist become strong and rebel
• William of Orange leads aristocratic rebellion
• As Spanish Build up in
Flanders Elizabeth becomes concerned of an attack

• Heavy Taxes (10% sales tax)-
No middle class
• Inflation – Growing demand
+ devaluing of money (silver)
• Expulsion of Jewish Muslim
Middle Class =Tax burden on poor (1492)
• Dutch Revolts
• Pirates
• Defeat of Armada by British
(1588)
• Borrowing from Bankers
(Bankruptcy 1590)
• Phillip II dies (1598)
• New Plague Epidemic (1599)

• Banking System- replaces
Italian
• Republic- United provinces of the
Netherlands in 16 th century
• Dutch Art (Rembrandt van
Rijn, Jan Vermeer) (light and Dark, middle class merchants, anti-Spanish)
• Trading- Buying supplies and creating false demand

1) What country had the powerful war ships called the Armada?
2) Who gradually replaced the Italians as
European Bankers?
3) Who wrote Don Quixote de La Mancha?
4) What religion did Phillip II promise to defend?
5) What was Phillip II granite palace called?