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ELI5: What happened to the Spanish Empire?
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Napoleon, Simón Bolívar and Teddy Roosevelt happened to it.

Actually it the process that led to the decline of what was once one of the largest and richest empires in the history of the planet to what Spain is today is really complex and multifaceted.

It took a long time and lots of causes. Chief among them were internal troubles, trouble with the neighboring France and the rest of Europe, trouble in the colonies that wanted independence and finally as a sort of nail in the coffin trouble with the United States of America which ended up showing the world that what was left of the Spanish military might was far less impressive than everyone thought which brought on even more troubles with everyone else after the Americans were done with them.

Nowadays all that is left of the Spanish Empire is a lot of people outside Spain especially in the Americas speaking Spanish and some small residual territorial claims in the form of two tiny enclaves in North Africa and some islands popular with tourist in the Atlantic of the cost of Africa.