The Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España) entered a new era with the passing of Charles II, the last Spanish Hapsburg monarch, who died childless in 1700.The War of the Spanish Succession was fought between proponents of a Bourbon prince, Philip of Anjou, and an Austrian Hapsburg claimant.With the Bourbon victory, Philip V's rule began in 1715.

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from c. 3500 BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000 BC, and then declining from c. 1450 BC until it ended around 1100 BC, during the early Greek Dark Ages. It represents the first advanced civilization in …