Phillip+II

Gabriel Hutter

Prompt: “Leadership determines the fate of a country.” Evaluate this quotation in terms of Spain’s experience under Philip II.


 * __ Topic 1: Tactics to Expanding the Empire __**
 * Consolidate and secure lands inherited from his father.
 * Use of the Spanish inquisition and strict conformity to Catholicism
 * Spain's leadership of a holy league against Turkish encroachments in the Mediterranean
 * Intervention in France on behalf of the ultra-catholics at the end of the 1580's and the beginning of the 1590's was an utter failure
 * Battle of Lepanto
 * __ Topic 2: The Revolt of the Netherlands __**
 * Tried to reorganize Ecclesiastical of the Dutch Catholic Church and to crush heresy.
 * William of Nassau, leader of the resistance
 * Duke of Alva with 10,000 with Spanish and Italian troops
 * __Topic 3: Counter productivity of tactics in Netherlands__**
 * Council of Trent
 * Pacification of Ghent
 * Union of Arras - southern provinces formed a catholic union and accepted Spanish control
 * Union of Utrecht - organized a northern Dutch-speaking states into a Protestant union to oppose Spanish Rule.

Practice Thesis: The leadership of Phillip II ruined the former prosperity of Spain through his tactics towards solving the revolts of provinces and expanding the empire