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The Casa de Contratación had fallen into …
Years: 1717 - 1717
The Casa de Contratación had fallen into bureaucratic gridlock by the late seventeenth century, and the Spanish empire as a whole was failing, due primarily to Spain's inability to finance both war on the Continent and a global empire.
More often than not, the riches transported from Manila and Acapulco to Spain are officially signed over to Spain's creditors before the Manila galleon made port.
In the eighteenth century, the new Bourbon rulers reduce the power of Seville and the Casa de Contratacion.
They move the Casa in 1717 from Seville to ...
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Years: 1717 - 1717
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