Leadership Determines a Country

Claudia Ramirez Parrow Ap Euro P. 4 16 March 2013 Claudia Ramirez Parrow Ap Euro P. 4 16 March 2013 A kingdom inevitably leading in order to be successful and to keep ease in order. Some leaders take different routes in which they count would be the most successful for their country. However, one must keep in mind that a state will be affected by the leaders choices and actions. It has been stated that, Leadership determines the compulsion of a country. Spain has dealt with the outcomes of Phillip II leadership tactics.Phillip II inherited Spain, the Low Countries from his father Charles V. Phillips leadership determine the fate of Spain with beingness his orders he sent out to his commonwealth. He wanted to cross out Protestantism and this led to his sisters introduction to inquisition. Making the country more heavily taxed, a country with always be realized by their leaders decisions whether it be positive or negative. a countries people will live and participate in soc ial activity in a way that has been accustomed by its leader.The Spanish generals could not control the fighting when Phillip sent twenty thousand Spanish troops low the duke of Alva to pacify the Low Countries. pacification meant the ruthless extermination of religious and political dissidents. After burying his fourth wife, he began to build a stronger veneration to religion for political help. He was completely inflexible, making the lives of his people harder. He differed little from the protestant reformers. He ruled the first global empire, making his focus and attention on maintaining that empire instead of the people in his country.In seventeenth century Spain, memory of the loss of the Spanish armada contributed to a spirit of defeatism. The political religious situation in central Europe deteriorated. Phillips authority affected the fate of Spain, by his main focuses and war like decisions. With being under his rule, Spain reached its height of power and influence, dir ecting explorations all around the homo and settling the colonization of territories in all the known continents.