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The average Spanish person received only marginal benefits from Spain's silver-driven imperial expansion.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“So the average Spanish gain from this was quite marginal. Yes.”Play from 1:01:14Report a misattribution
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