Howard Zinn writing about Columbus; Spain was recently unified, one of the new modern nation-states, like France, England, and Portugal. Its population, mostly poor peasants, worked for the nobility, who were 2 percent of the population and owned 95 percent of the land. Spain had tied itself to the Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews, driven out the Moors. Like other states of the modern world, Spain sought gold, which was becoming the new mark of wealth, more useful than land because it could buy anything. Wow this sounds so familiar. Bob Black Crow
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 16:21:45 +0000
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