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The poor natives in Peru were doomed once the Spanish discovered all of the silver present. I believe they basically enslaved the local indigenous population.
by vondur 5y ago
The poor natives in Peru were doomed once the Spanish discovered all of the silver present. I believe they basically enslaved the local indigenous population.
- chestertn 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_America#Prohibition_of_forced_labor_of_Indigenous_Peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_Am...
- WalterBright 5y agoIronically, all the gold and silver the Spanish extracted and transferred to Spain did the Spanish little good, as it simply resulted in inflation. Like what we do today with fiat money.
- PeterisP 5y agoThe main losers of this were all the European nations which did not get the gold/silver influx, as they also got the same inflation but without the compensating revenue.
- mistrial9 5y ago"did the Spanish little good" ?!? All of South America is now Spanish speaking.. how did that happen ? and their genetics are spread thoroughly.. I dont see 580 million people speaking the Dutch language (who were known as cooperators, traders, culturally respectful in many cases) edit- respeito ao Brasil, lar da vuvuzela barulhenta
- meristem 5y agoCorrection: most of South America. Brazil was a Portuguese colony thanks to the Treaty of Tordesilhas from 1494 and therefore speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. (Brazilian gold ended up in England, helping fuel the industrial revolution)
- WalterBright 5y ago> All Brazil, with the largest area, population, and economy doesn't count? The US speaks English. Fat lot of good that did the colonial British :-)
- pedrosorio 5y ago> I dont see 580 million people speaking the Dutch language (who were known as cooperators, traders, culturally respectful in many cases) I don't mean to engage in a flame war like we saw above, but "cooperators, culturally respectful" does not apply to any European Empire, afaik: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/10/dutch-colonial-history-indonesia-villains-victims/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/10/dutch-colonial-history-...
- mistrial9 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_colonization_of_the_Americas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_colonization_of_the_Amer...
- lifeformed 5y ago> the Dutch language (who were known as cooperators, traders, culturally respectful in many cases) Really? The Dutch brutally enslaved large parts of Africa and Asia.
- mistrial9 5y agodude - read some history.. the biggest slavers of the old world made the Dutch look like beginners.. and slavers have been hated by their own people since forever.. putting "slavers" and "Dutch" together is pretty ignorant, even if it is partially true
- vondur 5y agoHey, the Spaniards fought the Ottomans and the French incessantly for quite a while using the silver from the Americas. ;) Also the Spanish defaulted on loans a few times during this period. So yeah, they kinda spent all their money on stuff that did more harm in the long run.