"""""""""""""Yes, Spain was the most powerful empire up til that point because they managed to make itself rich in a short time thanks to all the gold they so gloriously stole from the natives in South America.""""""""""
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ the old JEALOUSY-driven black legend nonsense rears its ugly head yet again.. <yawn>
fyi: the spanish empire didn't suffer nearly as much from the armada's campaign as you so wish to believe.. in fact, spain would soon turn the tables on the english by massacring the english fleet at la corunna in 1589..
again, england has always been jealous of spain's riches and legendary imperial prestige, a prestige the english so badly wanted for themselves but could never attain no matter how many cutthroats, privateers and thugs they sent to pillage the spanish fleets, fleets the English so wished were theirs instead, so please give your hypocritical moral pontifications and high horse rants at the door..
in the end, the english were merely reduced to watching from afar and climbing on said moral high horse, as if they would've been any less rapaciously driven to gather riches than the spanish.. such hypocrisy! in fact, if the hideous british track record of colonial abuse in india is any indication, if anything, the brits would have been much worse than the spanish ever were [especially considering england's poverty and her status as a virtual backwater kingdom on the fringes of european affairs and in the long shadow of spain's empire at the time], for the simple fact that at least the spanish had in the catholic church a built-in moral balance to guard against extreme abuse, which is why all the pioneer defenders of native americans' human rights were spanish, not english..
what's even pathetic still from england's stand-point is that the english tout the armada [an effort whose ultimate lack of success had infinitely more to do with unfavorable 'weather patterns' than with anything the english ever did] as they rush to bring down the spanish empire, only to then turn around and model their own johnny-come-lately empire on the much older and more prestigious spanish one by stealing the legendary 'over which the sun never sets' claim from the spanish habsburgs' motto.. tsk-tsk-tsk these jealous empire-hungry brits couldn't even have an original thought of their own! as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery i suppose.. ;-)
meanwhile, while modern brits are too busy vacationing in the sunny spain they love to bash, the muslim brotherhood of terrorists is stealing the uk right from under the silly brits who, as sad as it seems, seem much more given to worrying about mythical catholic bogeymen than about the real threat muslims pose to modern britain.. so keep burying your heads in the sand, mates.. soon your fair maidens will be forced to wear burkahs in your beloved british isles as sharia law becomes the law of the queen's realm.. see how far you english oafs have come since the armada? gospeed and cheerios! ;-)
it wasn't the fall from her 16th-floor penthouse that killed her, it was the stop
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