The Spanish melt down this things because they need to finance the war they are planning. Because the real gold is worth a money and if they melt it down it would cost about cents, dollar is really made of brass and it is worth 125 dollar if melt down.
I believe it was Hernando Cortes?
didnt have to pay people to make profits on land using cash crops A Sharecropper is a farmer who doesn't own the land he farms. The landlord that owns the land gives the farmer a place to live, buys the seed for the farmer to plant. The farmer gets a share of the profits for his labor. It was not usually much, but his family had a place to live and food on the table.
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Thr cild war got it's name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly. On a "hot war" nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead, both sides fought each other indirectly