第六章 Age of Discovery 航海时代
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Spain in the last decades of the 16th century. “I learnt a proverb here，” said a French traveler in 1603. “Everything is dear in Spain except silver”. This situation was aggravated (though not as much as popular myth asserts) by the loss of much the commercial and artisan classes with the expulsions of the Jews (1492) and Moriscos (1609). The vast imports of silver ultimately made Spain overly dependent on foreign sources of raw materials and manufactured goods. ??The wealthy preferred to invest their fortunes in public debt， which were backed by these silver imports， rather than in production of manufactures and the improvement of agriculture. This helped perpetuate the medieval ar