“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
well well well
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tyler@programming.dev 20 hours ago
Explain, why would he have lost his privileges?
lath@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Find India, many trade contracts to India. Find the boonies, no trade contracts at all.
esc@piefed.social 16 hours ago
He wouldn’t on paper. There isn’t such a clause in ‘Capitulaciones de Santa Fe’ au contrare there was clause that everything discovered or conquered would be his family to govern perpetually and they will recieve 8th (or 10th?) part of everything traded. Obviously kings of Spain wouldn’t grant this in reality so his family started a number of lawsuits that resulted in them obtaining a small part of the land and a pension from the crown.
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Yeah, if anything i would have thought “discovering” a “new” land would be better in terms of personal power and wealth.