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Crash course world history. Season 1, Episode 25, The Spanish empire, silver, & runaway inflation / [directed by Stan Muller] ; [produced by Stan Muller].

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Muller, Stan, director, producer.
Green, John, on-screen presenter.
Crash course world history, publisher.
Series:
Academic Video Online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520.
Montezuma.
Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.
Philip.
Pizarro, Francisco, approximately 1475-1541.
Pizarro, Francisco.
Atahualpa, -1533.
Atahualpa.
America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.
America.
Aztecs--History--16th century.
Aztecs.
Incas--History--16th century.
Incas.
Latin America--History--16th century.
Latin America.
Latin America--Civilization.
Holy Roman Empire--History--Charles V, 1519-1556.
Holy Roman Empire.
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.
Mexico.
Spain--Commerce--Latin America--History--16th century.
Spain.
Latin America--Commerce--Spain--History--16th century.
Spain--Economic conditions--16th century.
Genre:
Educational films.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (11 minutes)
Other Title:
Spanish empire, silver, and runaway inflation
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : Crash course world history, 2020.
Language Note:
In English.
System Details:
video file
Summary:
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.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed January 20, 2022).
OCLC:
1296408927

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