Geography 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Peninsulars, Triangular Trade, Shake Keane
31 Jan 2013
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The rape of accumulated treasure was followed by the systematic exploitation of the forced labour of indians and abducted africans in the mines. Mining produced the most spectacular profits in the colonial new world, but the plantations employed more people and, in the end, produced greater wealth. Spain"s primary colonial priorities were the viceroyalty of new spain and the viceroyalty of peru and exploitation of precious minerals drove the behaviour of spanish authorities for most of the colonial period. They had to decide who owned the wealth of latin america and how was it to be distributed. The spanish crown under charles v crushed seeds of urban democracy in spain. Conquistadores were men on the make" but not democrats and they wanted to be feudal lords and the crown sought to restrain their power and fuentes said these men had to be rewarded, but not too much ".
