Why is spain so shitty now when at one point it was a european superpower?
>>840718
They were late to the party when it came to the industrial revolution. spent to much energy trying to hang onto colonies. but don't listen to me, I don't know what I'm talking about
>>840718
The years of fascism certainly didn't help.
>>840743
This and the Bourbons and Bonapartes usupring the throne violently
>>840743
If you did, you'd give a citation to the seminal text that first argued that line.
Nah, that'd be work wouldn't it cunt?
>>840718
Probably has something to do with their lack of involvement in European affairs during the 20th century. Same goes for Portugal.
>>840793
His argument is sound. No one demands citations on /his/ other than the butthurt.
>>840896
>No one demands citations on /his/ other than the butthurt.
Read the sticky. Then learn what seminal means.
>>840925
>"of, relating to, or denoting semen."
that's pretty hot desu
>>840718
>all these meme replies
Their plundering the New World for wealth encouraged a divestment from their own economic infrastructure and when gold prices crashed due to no one caring that inflation is a thing they didn't have the means to pick themselves back up.
>>840925
>Then learn what seminal means.
You filthy, filthy bastard.
>>840973
Laddie, I know this is a weebo porn site but you take it too far.
>>840718
They were a super power because they got to the new world first. The Iberian peninsula is pretty shit, full of mountainous and arid terrain. During the golden age it took more time to move cargo from Barcelona to Madrid than from Barcelona to Venezuela. The height of Spanish power came under Habsburg rule and most of their wealthy land wasn't on the Iberian peninsula.
>>840985
And the sticky eludes you still. Go back to your fucking cummies and get off this board.
>>840771
>implying the spanish didn't bring that on themselves by resisting his rule
if they (and the rest of europe, for that matter) had accepted his rule gracefully they would have thrived
>>841744
oh fuck off you Gaul bitchboy
>find gold
>get rich
>shit nigga I need to dig more
>excavate an unreal level of gold
>suddenly inflation because you cannot economics
>empire crashes
>>841017
Dutch Disease
Everything Great must at end at some point.
>>840718
Because we suckas a nation. We're still a bunch of tribes who look at their own belly buttons.
