Spain Was Relegated to Second Class Status in the 1600s

question 2

Multiple Choice

Spain was relegated to second class status in the 1600s in part because it

• A) was the site of much fighting during the Thirty Years' War.
• B) failed to grow its economy.
• C) held to a rigid Catholicism.
• D) hoarded the silver extracted from its South American mines.
• E) failed to make an attempt to defend the Mediterranean from a Turkish advance.

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