Western Civilization II / Unit 16 WC2 1521 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Spain's Old Order, Primo de Rivera, and the Republic of 1931
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The idea
Spain kept the old order: army, Church and nobility over a poor rural majority. Primo de Rivera ruled as dictator from nineteen twenty-three to thirty. In nineteen thirty-one the king left the country and a republic separated church and state and redistributed the largest estates.
In practice
Peasants attacked churches; the right closed ranks.
Where people slip
The anchor says abdicated; Alfonso left without abdicating.
Your place on the trail
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