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The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire. It was also one of the largest empires in world history. During the 16th century Spain and Portugal were in the vanguard of European global exploration and colonial expansion and the opening of trade routes across the oceans, with trade flourishing across the Atlantic between Spain and the Americas and across the Pacific between East Asia and Mexico via the Philippines. Conquistadors toppled the Aztec and Inca civilizations and laid claim to vast stretches of land in North and South America. For a time, the Spanish Empire dominated the oceans with its experienced navy and ruled the European battlefield with its fearsome and well trained infantry, the famous tercios, enacting the most extraordinary epic in human history, in the words of the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar. Spain enjoyed a cultural golden age in the 16th and 17th centuries.