287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

1653.863 - 1676.513 Jean-Paul Faguet

And this sort of, the flows of gold, A, sustained the entire Spanish Empire, and B, was all that Europeans talked about for about a century. It's unimaginable riches. So they're on the northern coast. Those of you who know your Latin American geography, they're on the northern coast of Colombia, which is pretty much the northern tip of the continent. And they're trying to get down to Cusco.