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Spanish Coursework Decline (Population decline (Illness (Great plague 1596…
Spanish Coursework Decline
Population decline
Illness
bubonic plague typhus and smallpox
filthy conditions and towns of crowded people
Great plague 1596-1602
killed 10% of Castilles population
another great Plauge 1647-1652
Plauge in ecomonic trougb 1676-85
1,250,000 deaths from plague in 17th Century
Malnutrition
economic decline brought a decline to food production
poor harvests
Emigration
expulsions of Moriscos
roughly lost 275,000 people
moving to America
40,000 legal emigrants most likely several times that illegally
Deaths from warfare
middle years was widespread fighting in Catalonia
Disease and malnutrition was a higher cause of soldiers death than combat
in Heaviest period 1635-59 1/4 a million deaths
Economic decline
7 prime causes
increase in domains held by aristocrats and the church meaning land was withdrawn from use and production was lowered
social disruption
deforestation
too many clerics
Status orientation of society ?????
charity orientated religious attitude towards poverty
Government policy including taxes
only institution that paid their share of taxes in 17th C was the church
Sicily Naples and Milan were paying the most and carried the cost of imperial defence in Medditerenial and south-central Europe
Castile payed 2/3 the cost of the government out of its normal taxes
in 1590's
The aristocrats put the tax weight on the peasantry and middle class
tax collectors raked off proceeds driving peasant families off the land to crowded and poverty filled cities
Royal monetary policies
16th c had a silver value
decided to issue copper money instead
2 year inflation and a temporary end to devaluation
slight price decline 1601-1610
further devaluation later lead to inflation in 1620's , 1536,1638 and 1640's
prices rose nearly 40% from 1625-1650
swings for inflation , deflation meant discouraged produce and commerce