Robert Siegel talks with British historian Hugh Thomas about his new book, The Golden Empire ... to some extent, as Hugh Thomas of the Spanish Civil War, though I've had a strange experience ...

The Elizabethan antiquarian and chronicler William Camden, in his work Annales (a history of the reign of Elizabeth I), expressed that the Spanish empire “covered such an extent ... upon the mouth of ...

Here are a list of recent global empires, most coming directly out of the Age of Exploration: This is an image of the Spanish Empire at its greatest anachronistic extent: But let me blow your mind ...

At its height, the Spanish Empire was one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires in history, spanning continents and oceans. So why did it collapse? In this video, we uncover the key ...

The Spanish Empire, Kamen argues forcefully, was neither created by Spain, nor was it as powerful and entrenched as the myths surrounding it suggest. "We are accustomed to the idea that Spain ...

But within half a century, Spain became a massive power with a far-flung empire. The most important step in the creation of the Spanish empire came in 1469, when Prince Ferdinand of the kingdom of ...

This assertion, made by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo in “How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History,” seems bold at first, almost audacious. Yet within the ...