This led to global trade that changed the face of the earth. It opened philosophical debates about human rights, the legality of wars, etc., which are still important today.
Yeah, we had the School of Salamanca, and the state-of-the-art Liberal Constitution from Cadiz, but somehow, we the Spaniards fuck things over spectacularly, as if we had a curse.
One of the most important feats if not the most important of what we used to call the Age of Exploration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery
This led to global trade that changed the face of the earth. It opened philosophical debates about human rights, the legality of wars, etc., which are still important today.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/school-salamanca/#IusGent...
These debates led to the prohibition of American Indian slavery in... 1542!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Laws
The first recorded christian marriage in current United States was an interracial union in 1565!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_Am...
I could go on an on.