Spain’s empire didn’t start with ships and gold—it started with power consolidation, as Ferdinand and Isabella unified the kingdom and finished the Reconquista in 1492. With old trade routes disrupted ...

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered a possible hidden Roman Empire from over 2,000 years ago. A team of researchers from the University of Cádiz started exploring an area of the Sierra de Cádiz ...

INTRODUCTION -- Spain in America: explorations and civilization / Javier Morales Vallejo -- Spanish art and science in the age of exploration / Chiyo Ishikawa -- EMPIRE AND IMAGE -- The world of early ...

A tale of two cities : New Spain and old. Cortés and the rebuilding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 1521-1524 ; Valladolid, 1522 ; Charles, king and emperor ; Christianity and the New World ; Charles at ...

When a syrian named abd al-Rahman arrived in Spain in 755, a booming Islamic empire stretched from Asia Minor to the Pyrenees. But this member of a leading Damascus family, the Umayyads, was not after ...