The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25

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In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.


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[Lindsay Zigmant]

Good luck on the test tomorrow everybody!!!

[catsfromthefuture]

CRAMMING!

[miguel CERVANTES]

Portuguese Empire hahahaha Brasil was spanish and Portugal too

[tomwollert]

Did anyone notice that the globe spins the wrong way at 0:10 after being pushed in the first 5 seconds? Really destroyed the sense of continuity!

[Raf Tar]

Can you make a episode Portuguese Empire???

[jack escudero]

. Im not saing that the spanish were the best empire or in fact the best people but i can tell you that thanks to the spanish you have ARGENTINA MEXICO GUATEMALA URUGUAY PARAGUAY ....I dont think that what they did the Inca's and the Astec's or even the Maia's but think did the World lose that much ....

[jack escudero]

true i am spanish i don't think that spanish people are bad is't just that there was some spanish that were bad at the time Inquisition was mis understood they killed people that secretly followed a difrent religion BUT they were giving a choice to convert or flee

[pauetmp]

Micayla, I'm Spanish, I agree, and If you subtly notice, Spain was founded on the Inquisition, Catholic religion and massive unification of the diverse societies and ethnies integrated in our Empire (if you aim to have an empire, it has to be like this...). And the Inquisition is very bad understood; first, they reconquer and unified the Iberian peninsula in detriment of the muslims, and afterwards wanted to do a similar Roman Empire... They weren't that bad, and we got it, depite B. Legend

[pauetmp]

Inflation? Silver? China? I'm Spanish, I know how was our Imperium, and I say this video is quite crappy (even because Portugal and Brazil were included in our territory as well). The Black Legend is still in force...

[kerns teresa j]

I have over the last 3 years attended 3 night school classes to learn this beautiful language. After which I still couldn't string a sentence together. I am amazed at how simple this site made this....ONLINESPANISHCOURSES.U­PHERO.COM.. and I can now communicate with the Spanish folk in the town in Orihuela Costa where I am planning to spend my retirement.

[Tuco Benedicto]

Not really.

Just that it ventured off the Spanish empire for half the video.

I stand corrected Strabo.

[M .Ekman]

Yes that is true, because everyone thinks that a crash course means long detailed explanation for experts. Great insight.