Another fantastic Spanish Class

September 28, 2006 in General by hypermodern | No comments

Specifically regarding the year 1492 in the history of Spain and the Nuevo Mundo. What boggles my mind, particularly was that the empire was so vast, and that the country itself was quite small and not really that populous. My professor joked that the biggest exports were “conquistadores y misioneros”…and the downfall of the Empire? Gold…because the folks in Spain stopped producing goods, and there was a cultural drain from the expulsion of the Jews (financiers), and the Muslims (industrialists, and producers of Silk). What also struck me was the first king of unified Spain didn’t speak Castellian.