Who ruled when and cash flows and stuff. Spain. NWL.

With the exclusive "rights" to everything in the New World, Spain under Ferdi and Bella (Ferdinand and Isabella, The Catholics, because Spain has the charming custom of giving cognomens to their leadership and cognomens are FUN and so I'm gonna use them.) embarked on what historians generally agree is Spain's Golden Age. (Is that because of all the gold? Surely they didn't... It was mostly silver by weight, anyway.)

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