Spain Structural Functionalism Analysis

Spain and Structural Functionalism

Spain in the early years of history was home to several different tribes of people over many years. In more modern history it was contested over by the greeks and the romans. The Romans eventually conquered Spain and ruled spain for over six centuries. This brought Spain the Latin language, Roman laws, military, local government, and Christian Religion. After the Roman empire fell came the visigoths. They established a new forms of local government and converted the nations religion to catholicism. Parts of spain was taken from the visigoths and was ruled by the muslims. Eventually the Christian population took back spain and the muslim and jewish population suffered religious persecution. Just after this …show more content…
Spain quickly inhabited some islands in the Caribbean which was the launch pad for the Spanish exploration. Spain then conquered Mexico, Central America, a large part of South America, and Florida. With this much territory Spain had to conquer over some other civilizations. In order to take over these territories Spain defeated many tribes and civilizations including the Mayans and the Aztecs. These lands were rich in precious metals which were mined and shipped back to Europe bringing Spain huge profits making hundreds of millions of pesos. Precious metals can be profitable but are not a necessity to daily life. Since metals were a big focus for Spaniards it forced them to buy food textiles and other things from other countries since it was not being produced. Since spain did not produce many general goods they paid high prices for them. Spain did not put any of their new found profits into sustainable industry. Instead they put their money into things like military and the religious monarchy. The silver and gold was limited and eventually the supply for spain ran out. A large amount of Spains money went to their war efforts in multiple wars. With the low amount of metals coming in and lack of solid infrastructure Spain could not maintain control over all their colonies. All of Spain's colonies eventually declared independence and Spain has never returned to a top economic nation like they once