LLAS 1190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Spanish Golden Age, Columbian Exchange, Avocado
11 Oct 2018
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Empire is all over the globe, remember limits of technology. Revamped whole economy because tons of supply of silver. Silver was currency of the world (including india and china) Incredibly productive, better than rest of world. Attention turns to peru (really close to main centers of population, big cities of. Area where silver is found in new spain, only has warrior people who do not want spanish on their land. As you go further north, settlement dates go up. Year by year spanish empire moves north. Melt it out (requires lumber and charcoal) In south: you only had to work at the mill around 2 wk/year. In north: get to take home some of silver (10%) Transform something they can"t eat (grass) into something you can eat (cattle) Begin funding wars because they have extra money. No wars in new spain, time to build beautiful things. 1st woman from america to become saint in catholic church.
