The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25 (10:45)
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 03:31 What are some aspects of Inca society that strengthened the Empire?
- 03:44 What was the mit’a system? How did the Spanish change this system?
- 05:18 What resource did the Spanish find instead of gold, and how did they extract this resource?
- 05:53 What were the economic results of Spanish silver mining in the Americas?
- 08:17 What other country had a problem with inflation? How did they try to deal with it, and were they successful?
- 09:27 What were some effects of China’s new tax structure in the sixteenth century?
- 09:54 What were the overall global effects of Spanish silver mining?