Columbus wanted gold more than anything else.
when he did not find any, he enslaved and killed the natives as he forced them to him look for gold.
europeans knew about gold and how to get it and work with it.
now infer, by using this information and other things you know about life: what was the likely reason columbus never found gold in the indies?
question 4 options:
a)
large amounts of gold did not naturally occur in the islands.
b)
columbus and his men did not know how to mine large amounts of gold.
c)
the natives hid large amounts of their gold and would not share.

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

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