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The Spanish may have established an extractive settlement after rapid initial success, but it did not produce net productive capacity in the long run.

Unresolved speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026

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“or there's nothing to get out of this in the long run of course i guess the british did lose control of the new world but for a while they did gain these productive new colonies in the new world and i i don't know what the right word to think about this i mean there is this way of thinking about maybe the spanish set up this extractive because they had this very quick initial success they set up a very extractive uh settlement which um”
“didn't result in net productive capacity in the long run,”
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