HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Need, Age Of Enlightenment, Asiento
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Limit all trade to americas to one port til 1712 (catise fortress) Port not on coast, on river 100 km from coast. Licensed ports in the americas: lima, portobelo, cartagena, and veracruz. The fleet system: sell together, meet in havana, split between portobelo and. Dutch colonel captured spanish returning fleet, stole all silver. U. s. dollar 1794 pegged to spanish peso til 1868, circulated co-equally peso -> dollar. Latin america in the age of reform and revolution. The war of the spanish succession (1700-1713) for heir to throne. French pacific trade- 1 ship per year at every port in the new world. British in the caribbean and the asiento (1713)- slave treaty. Charles ii dies at 39, two closest claiments are french ambassador and austrian ambassador. Truth is knowledgeable, nature us comprehensible, man is capable. Put ridges on coins so they can"t be shaven.
