Association of Кастилии and Арагона and creation of the Spanish kingdom.Реконкиста and banishment of moors from the Iberian peninsula.Opening of the New World and beginning of his conquest.In the XVI century there was an enormous empire on both banks of Атлантики, a sun never called above possessions of that.Two generations of discoverers, colonialists, rulers and missionaries worked way to the bloom of the catholic state. Бальбоа and Писарро, Кортес and Понсе Leon is those people, whose thirst of gold, cruelty and religious fanaticism, but at the same time a luck, intrepidity and enterprise, provided prosperity of Spain for a long time.How was it? How did getting up of the Spanish empire happen?Read about it in enthralling research of the British historian Хью Thomas.