During the 15th and 16th centuries Spain was the most powerful country because of the discovery of America and gold and silver, the union of Castile and Aragon under Ferdinand and Isabella, religious unification, the conquering of Granada , and an age of new learning. The was called Spain's "Golden Age". One of the main reasons for Spain’s fall is because the Spanish empire was too large to control.
1: It means that one government controls the whole population of people and the only way they can do that is to be voted in.
2: The best characteristics of a democraitc is that the rules for the country are direcly elected by the people. which means it is the government for the people by the people.
The South's greatest strength lay in the fact that it was fighting on the defensive in its own territory. Being familiar with the land made exporting easier.
