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hello guys good morning again from my home i guess like all of you and we are going to start today

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with the chapter number four of the unit number seven the other day we were talking about the

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crown of castile so today we are going to focus in the economy of the crown of castile but before

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starting with the chapter let me just make a little review or make or make you some questions

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about the information that we said the other days in previous days can anyone remember in what year

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was the battle of las navas de tolosa it's quite easy 12 12. and does anyone remember in what year

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ferdinand the third join or unify the crown of leon with the crown of castile becoming just

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one single crown this question is more complicated 12 30 is the answer and does anyone remember the

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name of the son of ferdinand the third alfonso the tenth alfonso the wiser then when we were

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talking about the crown of castile firstly we mentioned the government of the kingdom

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and we focus in the three main institutions the monarchy the king's council or the carte or the

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Cortes and the municipalities but also we mention other government institution

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such as the Treasury the Chancery and the audience does anyone remember what

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was the function of the audience it's a complicated answer but guys you have to

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read your note and study the chapters the audience were dedicated to

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administrate justice so it's for justice then we were talking about society that

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it was an stratified society with two important groups the privilege and the

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non privilege in the privilege we are going to find the novelty and the

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clergy and here we could add the military orders the king and so on and the non-privileged is a mix

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of people with great differences between them here we can find minorities such as youths and muslims

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but also we could find people from the bourgeoisie and finally we were talking about the livestock

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farming economy because we mentioned that the most of the people working agriculture growing

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cereals to feed themselves or for the local market but the most important economic activity

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was the merino sheep farming the merino was a type of sheep with that produced an exceptional

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bull and we also mentioned that the owners of the flux were the novelties the clergy and the

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military orders so because of that the king Alfonso the tenth create an

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important association to protect the interest of livestock farmers the name

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of this association is the Mesta so let's go to continue with the uni with

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chapter number four as I mentioned the transhumance so the Castilian farmers

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participated annually in transhumance what it is consist in in summer they

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took the flux and moved to the north of the Iberian Peninsula normally to the

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ontarian mountains because of the weather and the climate then in winter they return to the lowlands

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of strenadura or castile llama and la mancha for example to you to to move from north to south

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and south to north they use several paths, several roads that they are called

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cañadas. These cañadas were so important in that period of time and later I will

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show you a couple of maps with the current cañadas because you have one of

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them so close to pijariciosa de honor so the first point is related to the transomance that

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we already said that in summer the flocks the ships the medina ships went northward and they

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went back in autumn to a middle winter to castile or estremadura to protect this economy this

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activity because it was the most important economic activity the king alfonso the 10th

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established the mesta in what year in 1273 an association that looked after the

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interest of livestock farming to protect their own interest what were the aims of this association

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mainly to avoid conflicts because the floods have to cross several plots of land so they have to get

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to different agreements so because of that the king is going to favor the powerful the powerful

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land owning members of the mesta who got many privileges then we have to mention what happened

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to the wool that merino wool that was so exceptional because of its quality

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This wool normally was exported to Northern Europe, from Burgos, from Castile, they moved the wool to Santander, and then it was put into different ships.

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And they moved to Flanders. Because of this, the novelty and the clergy received a lot of money because of the wool from Flanders.

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But what was the problem for the economy of the Iberian Peninsula?

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If you are moving the resources to another place, the burguésua, the factories or the industry is not going to be developed in your own country.

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because you are going to sell the raw materials to another country and then they are going to

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transform the raw materials into a good and you will have to buy that food good to make your own

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product so you have to add a transformation process you will have to spend more money so

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everything is going to be more expensive and the bourgeois and the factories are

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not going to be developed in Castile so the bourgeois is not going to be an

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important group of the Castilian society is it clear I want you to understand

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this idea because of this in Spain we are going to have a lot of problems with

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industrial revolution we are not going to invest money in our industries we are

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going to focus our economy in selling the raw materials not to transform the

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materials right perfect finally just to mention that in the Middle Ages appearing

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Castile the great first this great first normally took place once sorry guys my

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telephone run nothing important so the Castilian first they were great first

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normally in Castilla and León. The most important ones were located in

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Río Seco, Valladolid, but maybe above all the most important one was Medina del

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Campo. You will study more about this first in Tercero de la ESO.

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Because of that I don't want to give you a lot of information, but just to say

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normally they took place twice in a year they are going to last about one month

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each and they are going to present people from all around Europe not only

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traders from Castile also from bar from Leon but also from different places all

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around Europe such as Flanders Italy or Germany the kind of products that we

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could find in this first for example they are bull wine oil honey but also

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luxurious products such as jewelry or tapestries so we could find a lot of

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different products okay guys so with this I'm finishing the chapter number

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four I will record chapter number five as soon as I can and I hope that you are

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doing well and just to remind you that please participate in the forum if you

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have any doubt related with the topic see you soon guys