La mitad del mundo que fue de España

In another time Spain was at the forefront of the nations, in terms of titles of possession and conquest, in what was geographically half the world. This did not happen by chance: at the end of eight centuries of reconquest in the Peninsula, the Spanish arrived in the New World (1492), whose subsequent conquest and domination was not a miracle, but a well-known historical fact but not sufficiently valued by their own and strangers. The managers of this great expansion were, for the most part, townspeople who, beyond gold and glory, sought to emulate their heroes from chivalric books, leaving their names for history; astonishing generations of navigators, conquerors, Christianizers... who also did not operate with the king's gunpowder, but with their own financing agreed in very precise capitulations. Spain had a historical globalization project between the 16th and 18th centuries that reached its peak in the Americas, as well as in the entire immense Pacific Ocean (Moluccas, Philippines, Carolinas, Marianas, southern archipelagos), which, for many decades, they formed the so-called Spanish Lake. That same Pacific is in dispute today more than ever, between the two superpowers. As in 1494, they will have to agree -the idea of ??many political scientists- with a new treaty in the manner of Tordesillas that, certainly, should not give way not to a new hegemony of planetary risk, but to a multipolar world in search of perpetual peace.