>We must unite the Spanish people under one monarchy

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>I must unite the Spanish people under one king

>I will slaughter Christians until Spain is a Muslim caliphate

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>I must unite the Spanish people under one state

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>>267915
>I will slaughter Christians until Spain is a Muslim caliphate

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>I must give Spain the perfect borders

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>I must unite te Spanish people under one flag

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>I must fail to defend a crumbling empire that will be idolized by teenagers on a Mongolian hand-spinning board.

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>I must prevent the union of the Franco-Spanish peoples

>>267923
Please explain what this nonsense is based on

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>I must unite the Castillan people under one language

>>267955
Cultural, religious, linguistic and historical factors

>>267967
>>267892
>>267911
>>267917
>>267927
Okay, now to the point of this thread. Why did it take so long and so many rulers to unite spain under one nation and state? (nearly 250 years not counting the language)

>>267955
Stupidity over 9000

>>267982
>nearly 250 years

but Portugal still exists, so they failed

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>>267892
>Isabel had to deal with a shitton of medieval politics, rebels, and wars of succession as a child and at one point freaked out because she was about to marry some ~50 year old when she was a teenager
>Succeeds in creating a fiscally disciplined state out of a dead-broke Castile, when her father couldn't deal with money for shit and the later empire could not into inflation management
>Finishes the Reconquista and bringing Europe into contact with the Americas during her reign, in the same year
>All her children die except one who became fuggin crazy, extinguishing the Trastamara line and her kingdom becomes a mere extension of the Habsburgs' domain

She led a hard life

>>267991
And then there's the Catalonians, those fuckers will never learn

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We must unite the Spanish bloodlines under one potato.

>>267923
>Jerusalem and Mecca in the same state
lolwut

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>>268500
>mfw that union was completely sucessful unlike any of the other Spanish ones above

>>268015

>demfeeels.jpg

If only she hadn't gone and followed that retarded policy of marrying her kids all over the fuggin yuropean houses...

>>267923
I actually trembled looking at this, what the fuck.

>>267923
Shit man, you put maps drawn by the perfidious albion to shame