<span>D-the weakening of spain's control over its colonies </span> <span>The Napoleonic Wars were a major factor in convincing the Spanish colonists in Spain's New World colonies to rise up in independence.</span><span>The war in Iberia greatly weakened Spanish power, and the Spanish Empire began to unravel.</span>
Rome became the most powerful state in the world by the first century BCE through a combination of military power, political flexibility, economic expansion, and more than a bit of good luck. This expansion changed the Mediterranean world and also changed Rome itself.
