Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spain's decline was largely a result of
A) overdependence on colonial wealth and a lack of internal economic growth.
B) a series of weak minority rulers.
C) internal divisions between Catholics and Protestants.
D) an aristocracy and church which played too small a role in society
E) bourgeois resistance to royal power.
Answer: A
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