Sir John H. Elliott

[@cholos17]

Awesome video!

[@smemavlast]

John Elliott is a magnificent historian, and this lecture lives to his standing. As he explains, the time gap between both colonial experiences is radically important: The Spanish built an empire based on XVI century Europe, whereas the English departed from a different XVII century Europe. The Spanish hit the jackpot by finding silver soon after their arrival to the Americas, deepening the Crown's intervention over the economic affairs of the continent. As a matter of fact, the Spanish structured their entire colonial enterprise on the silver trade, while the English colonies did not really acquire economic importance until the setting of large tobacco plantations. The scarcely populated English colonies depended and called upon immigration for growth, while the Spanish drove human resources from a vast continental pool of indigenous and creole inhabitants. Moreover, the English colonies departed from a Crown circumscribed by a parliamentary tradition which did not exist in Spain. The representative institutions developed in the English colonies were key to their future independence, while Spanish America became independent only after the Spanish crown was overcome by the Napoleonic invasion.

[@sauldiaz1887]

D.e.p. España agradecida

[@persephone21]

Black leyend Tipics and also half lies and full lies of it,so the native Americans are still alive and in all the Spanish Territories...them what did happens to the native Americans in the North America were the British colonies were? Very unfair way to see it