How Did Spain Make Money?

1. How Did Spain Make Money?

2. Manila Galleon Trade 1565 - 1815

4. How Did Spain Make Money? • Taxation (taxes was for the colonial government) • Only 5% of taxes was used for education, or social improvement

5. 250 Years of Economic Stagnation

6. Changes Come in the 1800s • Plug in to the Global Economy

7. British-Chinese Colony flying a Spanish Flag

8. Economic Changes = Social Changes • Land becomes more valuable because of the new economy

9. Friar Estates • Religious Orders are long standing • Donations • Creditors

10. Marriage Made in Heaven • Principio Families (opportunity but lacking know how) • Chinese (Have the know how but no opportunity) • Mestizos (owned land, managed Friar estates)

12. Qing Dynasty 1644-1912 “The Manchus were more successful as inheritors than as innovators; it was not in them to remake the Chinese scheme of things.”

13. The Chinese men are required to wear the queue.

14. Qing Dynasty 1644-1912 The Strength of Qing was in the reign of three emperors that spanned almost 150 years (from 1662-1796).

16. Qianlong Era (1736 – 1799)

17. 1700 – 138 Million 1800 – 300 Million

19. YEAR POPULATION LAND • 1741 143 million 91 Acres 2/3 • 1850 430 million 122 Acres 1/4 • 200% change 35% change

20. 60% of the land is owned by a relatively few rich landlords • 10% of the land belongs to the government • 30% or the land for more than 400 million people

23. Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864)

24. January 1850 Taiping “Great Peace” • Ten Commandments • No private property • Women equal to men • Social System

25. The Guinness Book of World Records calls this the "bloodiest civil war" with some 20 million estimated dead.

27. Chinese Run Mines • 1900 - 90% • 1920 – 64% • 1930 – 39%

28. 19th Century - 5 million Chinese immigrate to Malaya • 1900-1942 - 12 million Chinese immigrate to Malaya

29. 1603 Chinese Massacre (Manila) 20,000 killed

30. Manila Galleon Trade 1565 - 1815