The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25
In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of ...
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Hi. I’m John Green, this is Crash Course World History and today we’re going to talk about the entire fracking globe over the course of several centuries so let’s get right to it! Mr. Green! Fracking? You don’t know about Battlestar Galactica yet, Me From The Past? Oh, man, there are so many great things in your future! Today, I’m going to try to show you how tiny Spain’s influence spread around the world and shaped the lives of almost every human on the planet, generally in negative ways. I know, everything is such a bummer on Crash Course recently. It’s the sixteenth century. People are getting richer, they’re living more connected lives and all I can do is whine about how much better the old days were. What am I, your grandpa? Let’s get festive. Woooo! [theme music] So...
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Hi. I’m John Green, this is Crash Course World History and today we’re going to talk about the entire fracking globe over the course of several centuries so let’s get right to it! Mr. Green! Fracking? You don’t know about Battlestar Galactica yet, Me From The Past? Oh, man, there are so many great things in your future! Today, I’m going to try to show you how tiny Spain’s influence spread around the world and shaped the lives of almost every human on the planet, generally in negative ways. I know, everything is such a bummer on Crash Course recently. It’s the sixteenth century. People are getting richer, they’re living more connected lives and all I can do is whine about how much better the old days were. What am I, your grandpa? Let’s get festive. Woooo! [theme music] So...
