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Jiang defines Spanish imperial decline as the result of wealth-driven laziness, insularity, hubris, overextension, war spending, and corruption.
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Spanish Empire
Jiang defines Spanish imperial decline as the result of wealth-driven laziness, insularity, hubris, overextension, war spending, and corruption.
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The Spanish Empire's South American gold makes Spanish society lazy, allowing Dutch, British, and French industry and piracy to feed on Spanish wealth.
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He presents Spanish conquest and plantation extraction as the first profitable European model in the Americas, which then draws English, French, and Dutch competitors into the New World.
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The Low Countries' poverty and autonomy fostered egalitarian independence, textile work, and eventual conflict with Spanish attempts to enforce Catholic control.
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"So now you have this divergence where, okay, you have the Spanish empire, and because of their wealth, they became, um, lazy, insular, and..."
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"...a very energetic society, and they can now feed off the Spanish Empire, okay, the Austrian -Hungarian Empire, the Habsburgs. Why? Because the Spanish..."
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"...private luxury goods, especially spices, to the market. So because the Spanish Empire is so wealthy, this wealth transfers to the energy and industry..."
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"And they were able to do this in order to redeem humanity from the prejudices, the atrocities of civilization. Okay? So that's the argument..."
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"And they engage in piracy. In 1588, the English Navy defeats the Spanish Armada. And this opens up the new world now for the..."
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"So the Portuguese are here, but the Portuguese are like the Spanish, okay? They are a Catholic nation. But the Dutch are the ones..."
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"They had a lot of local autonomy. They were a very independent and very egalitarian nation. And everyone there, because it was cold, it..."
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"...to where we are so this is the map of the spanish empire at the height of its power as you can see the..."
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"...very energetic. So as a comparison, let's compare it to the Spanish Empire. Okay? So at this point in history, the Spanish Empire is..."
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"...British Empire, we first need to discuss the rise of the Spanish Empire. So let's go back, and we discussed that it was the..."
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"...take off. So let's go over some basic background about the Spanish Empire, okay? So remember, Spain has territories in the New World. What's..."
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"...noble and clerical privilege. So only the elite benefited from the Spanish Empire. Whereas the Dutch Republic, because they were small, they had to..."
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