Why is Spain and Portugal not as wealthy as Switzerland as they stole all the gold from Latin America?

Why is Spain and Portugal not as wealthy as Switzerland as they stole all the gold from Latin America?

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no mountain jews

we waste it in wars, defending Habsburg territories and the catholic church.

>romans extracted 1,500,000 kilos of gold from a single spanish mine
>spain extracted 17,000 kilos of gold from whole latin america

They didn't steal all the gold from the the Nazis like the Swiss did.

>romans extracted 1,500,000 kilos of gold from a single spanish mine
2000 years ago
>spain extracted 17,000 kilos of gold from whole latin america
500 years ago
>Why is Spain and Portugal not as wealthy as Switzerland as they stole all the gold from Latin America?
That's what happens when your economy is on mercantilism. Never do mercantilism.

makes one wonder if the numbers are that legit

Don't forget to the Soviets

>spain defended soviets
wtf

There never was any gold, it's all lies.

they are, just google "las médulas", the site is impressive

we used it to buy stuff from others instead of investing it internally and produce stuff ourselves

nah he was talking about this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_gold
>be republican
>give gold to the Soviet Union in case of losing the civil war
>lose the civil war

this

paki dna

they tried to leave with my stolen golds but then the Sea Goddess won't allow it.

did portugal have colonies over there?

Yes, back then. And today they're highly mixed with Indian, or what I would call the larpers.
This is one of the ship they're trying to get away with.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor_de_la_Mar

thedailybeast.com/the-earthquake-that-brought-an-empire-to-its-knees
Kek. Told you to be a gudboi and play nice with the spices route. Thanks Ottomans for the tips that these savages shall not be welcomed! The sultanate fall because of a goddamn traitor that sided to the portuguese.

>stole all the gold from Latin America

They didn't stole, pinche puto. They invested it in these lands that contributed to the growth

We didn't steal it. We just washed it like Portugal

>salazar does some master maneuvers
>plays both sides while neutral
>no war, gold from nazis
>economy growing very fast
>commie coup
>gold reserves tank
>economy collapses
whoa really makes you think

Well shit happens. You could have become a second Switzerland with glorious sea access.

kings wasted most of it in their things, forgetting they had an empire to maintain

We beat the shit out of the ottomans, i wonder if we ever lost a war lel

When your king died in morroco.

That was a batlle not a war. Just check who is on top 3 world wide win-lose - on military historystat

they melted it all down to make gold chains and gold teeth

because you're the apostates. of course you would know the weakness of the sultanates and the chains of spices. you wouldn't even know we exists if the Indian sultans had kept their maps and knowledge of this area somewhere more secure even if they're fall. we're also occupied by the savages Thai to the north where most of the army went there while the capital is secured by low level armies.

gee... i wonder who could be behind this post

We are not top 10,but probably top 20-25 wealthy world wide.
Why we are not like switzerland? they have a centralposition in europa, also we have destroyed our industry to become a third sector economy, at least since the 80's.

El catizANO señores.

lel

because the nobles used it to buy things from England and France

red coats and pirates intercepting treasure ships with insufficient consort

Trafalgar & Nelson happened, basically.. it all kind of ended up in England and the Dutch East Indies. I think. hello

They had big ships but they didn't dominate the waters / could secure passage back to Spain. A lot of it went into alahamsomething castles and schools with crosses on them

t. criollo

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Well, the wealth in the ships was not literally gold (most of the time) lol

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We had even more, but the liberal and socialists have spend some of it already in their ((stuff)). But that's not related to our former empire

Shitty list. Switzerland is wealthier than Denmark by a wide margin. Denmark had the second lowest growth of all the OECD countries, only beaten by mighty Greece.

Correct, conquistadors used their wealth to build up latin america.

The monarchy recieved taxes in form of ships, new world soldiers, food, products and earth resources, the government of new world used labor and taxes to build cities, roads, schools, hospitals, sewers, aqueducts etc..

>Gold
>Chile

pfffffff HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Chile's nickname from colonial times: "spaniard cemetery"

Latin American New Spanish cities were as good or superior to many in Europe.

>but probably top 20-25 wealthy world wide
not so fast

sure abdul sure

That's related to Wolfram trade with Nazi Germany in 30-40's.

devuelva el oro que nos robaron

Spanish taxes were 20%, calm your nuggets.

theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/02/theobserver1

How much money did Germans give to the vatican?

What has it do with Ottoman Empire except support in Battle of Three Kings? Sultanate of Morocco was always independent and sovereign from Ottoman Empire

But people wanted gommunism

0, nothing to 350 million francs if Bigelow report is true
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gold#Vatican

Most of the taxes werent even paid and most of the gold would have no value in the new world.

>stole all the gold from Latin America

This is actually the latin american equivalent to the "white peepool stole muh muney that's why we do crimez" niggers use to blame their faillures in others.

They wasted on wine and olives, that shit is expensive you know

You were a giant silver mine, and today a copper mine. Is it really all that different?