The Funny Comparison to Spain's Empire

The Saudis have this resource that people want. But they haven't turned Saudi Arabia into like an industrial juggernaut. They're not spreading their culture and religion in certain ways. The Spanish, see their mistake is there were several periods during the 1500s where, you know, worldwide inflation started to peak above about 10%. And again, the figures here are hard to fully track because the data is really spotty.