https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4 en-us 2021-07-15 00:10:33 UTC 2021-08-28 02:11:45 UTC hello@padlet.com rsidhu5 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650009799 2021-07-15 00:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650009799 rsidhu5 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650011003 2021-07-15 00:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650011003 rsidhu5 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650011713 2021-07-15 00:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650011713 rsidhu5 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650012506 2021-07-15 00:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650012506 rsidhu5 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650013274 2021-07-15 00:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650013274 rachaelmibus1 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650051691 Spain wasted the majority of their wealth through paying off their debt to numerous other countries; there was a poor management of finance that was largely geared towards creating the illusion of prosperity instead of investing in long-term schemes that would benefit the majority of the population. Select members of the population benefited from the income of wealth from Spanish colonies, which caused great economic distress amongst the majority of the population. However, Spain's commercial treaties with other European nations greatly stimulated their maritime efforts and gave them access to ports and goods they might not have been able to access otherwise. Spanish debt was a great economic boost for the countries it was indebted to, and created an economic imbalance wherein their creditors were benefitting more from their colonies that the Spanish were themselves, and investing that wealth into establishing their own colonial practices.]]> 2021-07-15 00:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650051691 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650056386 The Spaniards described seeing gold as if they were in 'Seventh Heaven' and lifted the gold as if they were monkeys, whilst giving them joy and excitement. Although, with all this being said, because of the discovery of gold, the Spanish destroyed the civilisations they had encountered by setting them on fire and burning everything they knew, no matter how valuable or priceless in was. By the end of this, the Spaniards were left with nothing, no food, water, clubs, buildings, shields and etc. All in which led to blood baths where people struggled and fought amongst one another, in hopes of getting their hands on the lions share of gold, silver, emeralds and diamonds. ]]> 2021-07-15 00:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650056386 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650059054 The Spanish loved gold as if they were 'monkeys' and 'as if to put new  life into them and lift their hearts'. The Spaniards even went to war for it, in Tenochtitlán that they had recently reconquered fought hard for their city and the riches that lay within. Once this war was one the amount of gold and riches that was won through bloodshed the Spanish were still unhappy and for years dug at the soil and tried to find more gold with the lake's bottom trying to find presumably hidden objects by the Indians. The Spaniards would seemingly kill and torture anyone just to get their hands on any kind of riches. ]]> 2021-07-15 00:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650059054 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650073154 2021-07-15 00:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650073154 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650073814 the Spanish crown had acquired a great debt due to which the majority of the wealth they received from latin America and the silver mines the likes of potosi only enriched the other European economies more than Spain it self. Spain controlled less then 5% of the trade with its own colonies and the interests on the Spanish loans kept increasing due to a great numbers of wars the crown dragged itself in and eventually the great Spanish empire was just a image because it never benefitted from the wealth of its colonies.

]]> 2021-07-15 00:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650073814 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650090161 The silver in Potosi attracted knights, soldiers, monks and others. In 1573, 'Americas fountain of silver' as it was referred to, had a population of 120,000. It was one of the richest cities in the world. It attracted people from all over with its decorated churches, gambling house, fiestas and theatres.]]> 2021-07-15 00:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650090161 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650093151 The disease was the most important factor in the Spanish conquest of all parts of their empire as they were extremely outnumbered by the natives of the region and even with their superior weaponry they could not hope to take them all, the diseases they carried killed and weakened the armies of the Aztec and Inca empires making them much easier to conquer ]]> 2021-07-15 00:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650093151 https://padlet.com/rsidhu5/3jwafc5d0dcjgvy4/wish/1650094672 It was their duty to serve god by destroy any heretics they encountered, spread Christianity and to pillage as much of the natural resources they found during this religious expansion in order to strengthen the Spanish empire. As well as getting personally rich, as Cortes himself funded his own conquests. Likely wanting to increase his own power and standing within the Spanish empire and history itself.

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