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Spanish silver wealth quickly creates the same pathology Jiang has been tracking: wealth makes a society lazy, insular, arrogant, and dependent on others' labor.
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Spanish silver wealth quickly creates the same pathology Jiang has been tracking: wealth makes a society lazy, insular, arrogant, and dependent on others' labor.
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He says Spain and Portugal colonized South America by exploiting mineral wealth, enslaving local populations, and converting them to Catholicism.
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Jiang says the Sidonia passage claims Spanish converts outwardly became Catholic while secretly remaining Jewish.
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The 1492 Spanish expulsion is presented as a traumatic rupture that creates bitter division between converts and non-converts.
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Jiang differentiates Yamnaya conquest outcomes by local circumstance: genocide in Britain, male-line replacement in Spain, and caste hierarchy rather than full genocide in India.
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Spain's New World gold and silver became a national disaster because it reinforced a feudal Catholic monarchy rather than productive institutions.
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Jiang treats Spain's clergy and nobility as parasitic elites who absorbed wealth while making no productive contribution.
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Spain's New World territories are framed as economic extraction rather than colonization, with the navy built to carry gold and silver back to Spain.
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"...And a lot of silver was now being transported back to Spain. And so overnight, Spain became extremely wealthy. But as we discussed last..."
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"To provide textiles, luxury goods to Spain, all right? So how this was accomplished was first, industry. So the Spanish, because they were so..."
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"So they started to chart new areas. Okay? Spain and Portugal primarily. And what they discovered was there's all this new territory in South..."
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"So Sidonia is a Jewish state that, in the course of ages, had given to the state many distinguished citizens. In the priesthood, its..."
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"So even after the Christians reconquered Spain, and after some Jews converted to Catholicism, okay, first of all, these Jews kept their faith secret...."
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"Yet, strange as it may sound, it is nevertheless a fact, of which there is no lack of evidence, that these Jews were Christians...."
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"...the Jews, Christians, and the Israelites get along very well in Spain. Okay? But in 1492 the Spanish will expel the Jews from Spain...."
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"And they steal your woman. Okay? That's what young men do, guys. All right. And over time, what they will do is slowly establish..."
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"...chose, the men and women chose to fight together. Okay? In Spain, it's a different story. Because what happened is that all the men..."
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"Okay? And we know because if you look at the upper caste, they all spoke Indo -European. If you look at the lower caste..."
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"...and silver. And all this money was now going back to Spain, and that became the basis of the Spanish Empire. And you'd think..."
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"...sucking up a lot of wealth, a lot of energy within Spain. So that's the first problem, this feudal system. Second is the idea..."
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