
Radio War Nerd EP 314 — The Decline & Decline of the Spanish Empire, 17th-c.
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The Lerma, the King of Spain, Moved the Capital South, to Madrid
Philip the second had decided to move the capital south. Madrid was not a city, whach was not even a city. There were two categories who did not pay taxes and this caused a lot of trouble. The tax collection was privatis to these people, or to local councils. So they told you, oh, we only got er hundred thousand maraberis, instead of, we truly got 300 thousands. And also, ha, the the people had the incentive to say they were poorer than they were. That's a going what they say the past is oll is a foreign country. But t tey didn't start as prett well, caleron started more as as
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