The Spanish Empire, money and galloping inflation: crash course in world history #25

In which John Green explores how Spain rose from a middle European power to one of the most powerful empires on the planet, thanks to the plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two greatest pre-Columbian civilizations, exploit a mountain of money, mismanage its economy, and lose everything in the mid-1700s. Come take a roller coaster ride with Charles I ( he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rose and fell, and took with it two empires and China.

Chapters:
Presentation 00:00
Aztec civilization 0:45
An open letter to human sacrifice 2:00 p.m.
Inca civilization 2:52
Spanish conquistadors in South America 3:44
Spanish silver mines in the Americas 5:21
Charles V and his sons 6:09
Money in China 7:43
Credits 10:03

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