Astralis,
I had a dinner with a bunch of Chinese history specialists from my former research institute. Apparently "Mexican silver dollars", by which was meant pieces of eight or some other form of Spanish mint, remained a major currency in China right to the eve of the Maoist Revolution!
Z,
I think Imperial Spain, by unleashing the Eighty Years War and Thirty Years War, unwittingly set into motion a lot of important forces that shaped Europe's destiny, though ironically not to their own benefit.
I had a dinner with a bunch of Chinese history specialists from my former research institute. Apparently "Mexican silver dollars", by which was meant pieces of eight or some other form of Spanish mint, remained a major currency in China right to the eve of the Maoist Revolution!
Z,
I think Imperial Spain, by unleashing the Eighty Years War and Thirty Years War, unwittingly set into motion a lot of important forces that shaped Europe's destiny, though ironically not to their own benefit.
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