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labor, trade, gold, raw materials.
Spain had recently become very involved in the gold and silver trade, so that was their biggest trade asset. They also had your typical wine and cheese type stuff but gold and silver was more effectively used in trading for necessities.
Lots of gold and silver was sent to Spain, which Spain hoped would make it rich. It didn't.
Spain got its riches with gold and silver, France by fur trade,Netherlands by shipping,trade
america if not Spain
what gold was to spain, FUR was to france.
Spain needed gold because there mines were running out of gold
In both cases, societies were brought into contact through trade. The cultural exchanges that went along with that trade enriched those societies.
You trade the oil can for the gold pan after you trade the saddle for the gold pan. Saddle to gold pan to oil can.
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There was some gold and silver in Spain, but what made Spain rich in the 16th and 17th centuries was the gold and silver taken from Spanish possessions in the Americas.
for the gold of the Americas