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Phillip The 2nd Phillip the 2nd’s Mistakes “Leadership determines the fate of a country.” There has never been a truer quote. For a country depends on it’s leaders for guidance and decision making. Phillip the 2nd showed a perfect example of how a terrible leader can royally screw up a country. Phillip the 2nd was the ruler of Spain from 1556 to 1598 and had the opportunities to become one of the greatest rulers of all time. He came in at the right time period, the golden age of Spain, and at one point was the king of England, Spain, and France, and all of America belonged to him. He controlled almost all of the ships at sea and could have been immensely powerful if he had not let his fanatical Catholicism get in the way. Phillip the 2nd was a devout Catholic that took it upon himself to head the Catholic counteroffensive, and he was willing to put in all the sweat, blood, tears, and not to mention money to see it through. He did not care about his country, or anything else for that matter, as much as he did for this. Phillip let economic and material matters slip away and deteriorate, thus beginning phillip, spain, one, country, 2nd, catholic, king, built, ruler, let, golden, become, age, phillip, write, while, way, very, time, st, spanish, shape, project, point, never, much, money, led, lawrence, judgment, it’s, himself, grill, greatest, fate, fanatical