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It didn't. It was Portugal that first dominated world trade by discovering the sea route to East Asia, then it was the Dutch Republic, then Britain. Spain was never a great trading nation. They did have a big fleet, but it was mostly used (apart from the occasional sea battle) to carry gold, silver and other commodities from the Spanish colonies to Spain itself.

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