Spain had become a back water. Its nadir may have been the conquest by France that ran feeble Carlos IV and the scheming Maria Luisa out of the country. Spain also lost much of its American empire at this time. Portugal lost Brazil, but the Braganças gained another country to rule - an empire - when Brasil became independent.
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