The Count of Olivares Failed in His Efforts to Maintain

question 29

Multiple Choice

The count of Olivares failed in his efforts to maintain Spanish supremacy in seventeenth-century Europe because

• A)there was a considerable drop in revenues from the New World.
• B)Spain suffered a demographic crisis that resulted in a severe decline in population.
• C)Catalonia and Portugal rebelled against the monarchy.
• D)of resistance to the centralization implied in the Union of Arms.
• E)All these answers are correct.

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