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Monday, March 21, 2011

RE DECLINE OF THE SPANISH HAPSBURG EMPIRE AND US

The only comparable decline to that of the US, after its accidental pinnacle after WW II, occurring over a roughly similar period of time, that I can recall, was the rather rapid eclipse of the Spanish Hapsburg Empire by, say, 1650; although the Austrian Hapsburgs continued to be predominant for many generations. 


It, the Spanish decline, was also brought about by a comparable growth of competition from many sources at once, both military and economic, over which it had little control, a competition that was global as well. 

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