The Economic Role of the Church, mining and commercial fortunes. by https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym Ana Cris Jurado, Mar Torres, Alexis Gaeta. en-us 2020-09-23 18:09:43 UTC 2020-09-28 19:27:52 UTC hello@padlet.com hi :) gaetaalexis1 https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/773323381 2020-09-23 18:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/773323381 From the beginning of the Colony, the Church was an institution with great force in all senses. nmarrtorress https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/773325598 2020-09-23 18:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/773325598 This period cannot be understood without taking into account the ecclesiastical institution, in wich officials and religious orders became rich by acquiring large estates through inheritance or loans. nmarrtorress https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785254653 2020-09-28 17:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785254653 nmarrtorress https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785271110 2020-09-28 17:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785271110 The role of the Church during the colonial times was to finance many of the economic activities since it was the big moneylender in New Spain. The Church received a lot of money from rich and poor. nmarrtorress https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785292227 2020-09-28 17:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785292227 The Church did not pay taxes for the goods that they possessed and these could not be transferred. nmarrtorress https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785320793 2020-09-28 17:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785320793 They owned large tracts of land, wich affected the economy of New Spain. These properties were known as "mortmain" nmarrtorress https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785323759 2020-09-28 17:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785323759 The Church became so strong that the Crown, by means of the Bourbon Reforms, sought to reduce the control that it had and give to the state. nmarrtorress https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785334389 2020-09-28 17:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785334389 Traders also managed to make large fortunes in New Spain, since they were the most powerful group, and were grouped in private institucion. anacristinajuradogenera https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785553073 2020-09-28 18:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785553073 The chrch was not the only institution with great wealth.the economic bonanza of the viceroyalty duringthe eighteenth century, allowed miners and traters to make great fortunes https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785581902 2020-09-28 18:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785581902 from the midle of the sixteenth century with the discovery of major deposits of silver in real del monte pachuca guanajuato parral and zacatecas the spaniards devoted themselves to the explotation of this mineral https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785603751 2020-09-28 18:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785603751 Traders were so rich, they financed the Viceroyalty authorities and even the Crown with their own money. anacristinajuradogenera https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785616886 2020-09-28 18:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785616886 Whith part of their wealth, some of these miners and acquired titles of nobility, public and conduced colonization expeditions in the norterm territories. anacristinajuradogenera https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785699477 2020-09-28 19:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nmarrtorress/ciyh56qg6igzwkym/wish/785699477