Spanish Empire: From Iberia to 4 Continents in 90 Years

In 1490, the kingdoms of Spain didn't even control the whole Iberian Peninsula; by 1580, their king ruled lands on four continents. Royal weddings and inheritances, Columbus, the conquests of Mexico and Peru and their immense human cost, the union with Portugal, and the machine of silver, fleets and viceroyalties that held it all together, told on animated maps (borders are approximate). CHAPTERS 0:00 One King, Four Continents 0:23 1492: Two Crowns Unite 1:18 Columbus and the Carving Up of the World 2:12 Mexico and Peru: Conquest and Its Cost 4:12 Charles V, Heir to Half the World 5:16 Philip II: Where the Sun Never Set 6:19 The Machine: Viceroyalties, Silver and Fleets 8:07 The Final Paradox MAIN SOURCES · Encyclopaedia Britannica: Isabella I, Ferdinand II, conquest of Granada, Columbus, Treaty of Tordesillas, Hernán Cortés, Tenochtitlan, Cajamarca, Charles V, Philip II, Iberian Union, Philippines, Potosí, Spanish treasure fleet and Manila galleon. · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, City of Potosí (no. 420). National Geographic and Guinness World Records (Elcano's circumnavigation). · Cook and Borah, Essays in Population History; Denevan, The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 (1976); McCaa (University of Minnesota). · Flynn and Giráldez, Born with a Silver Spoon (Journal of World History, 1995). Hamilton, American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain (1934). · Drelichman and Voth, Lending to the Borrower from Hell (2014). Geoffrey Parker, Imprudent King (2014). History Today (Casa de Contratación, 1503). CREDITS (images from Wikimedia Commons) · El cuarto del Rescate, Cajamarca, Peru — Miguel Francisco Rueda Ñañez — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cajamarca cuarto del rescate — Velvet — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vista de la ciudad de Sevilla, Sevilla en el siglo XVI — Jl FilpoC — CC BY-SA 4.0 · The Cerro Rico in Potosi - Bolivia (3776346205) — Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Theodoor de bry — Theodor de Bry — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kraak porcelain dish - Ming dynasty - Guimet museum - Accesion number MA 4801 — Faqscl — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Casa de Contratación Alcazar Seville Spain — Iantomferry — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Retrato de Isabel la Católica, Juan de Flandes — Jl FilpoC — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lienzo de Tlaxcala (Mesolore digital facsimile) — Byron Ellsworth Hamann, The Mesolore Project — CC BY 4.0 · Fachada del colegio de San Gregorio, Valladolid, España, 2017 — Benjamín Núñez González — CC BY-SA 4.0 · D. Manuel I half-length – Museu de Marinha — Portuguese School — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tratado de Tordesillas (Archivo General de Indias) — Jl FilpoC — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Music: "Investigations" and "Five Armies", Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0. · Maps: our own work with Natural Earth data. Historical borders are approximate. Subscribe to The Maps of Power for more history told on animated maps. #history #SpanishEmpire #maps