What empire created a number of trade routes, spread its language all over the world, destroyed both the Aztec and Inca Empires, and was the foremost global power during 17th and 18th centuries?

Beginning with Columbus in the New World and ending in Africa centuries later, the Spanish Empire conquered the world. Thirteen percent of the world's land (7.72 million square miles) belonged to the Spanish Empire at its height, which claimed about the same percentage of the global population.

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