<Ul> <Li> Napoleonic Spain / War of Independence </Li> <Li> Cádiz Cortes / 1812 Constitution </Li> <Li> Independence of Spanish America </Li> <Li> Reaction and Revolution </Li> <Li> Spanish confiscation </Li> <Li> First Republic </Li> <Li> Restoration </Li> <Li> Disaster of 1898 </Li> <Li> Second Republic </Li> <Li> Civil War </Li> <Li> Francoist Spain </Li> </Ul> <Li> Napoleonic Spain / War of Independence </Li> <Li> Cádiz Cortes / 1812 Constitution </Li> <Li> Independence of Spanish America </Li>

Why did spanish power and prosperity decline during the age of absolutism