Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Spain's Decline Was Largely a Result of

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.