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hey guys good morning good afternoon or good evening today we are going to talk about the

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crown of aragon but just to mention a little bit to make a little summarize about what we have

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studied up until now we mentioned the crown of castile with uh with the different institutions

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that they have in the government the main economical activity that it was the the

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livestock farming and especially the transhumance and finally we mentioned some information about

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the society with the with the three statements that you already know clearly ability and

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ordinary people so today we are going to start with the crown of aragon we in this case what we

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have is just one crown and several Kingdom what does it mean just one king

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and four different kingdoms Aragon Valencia Catalonia in Mallorca four

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kingdoms but just one crown what does it mean that every single kingdom had its

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own institution and laws which the king had to respect but having so many kingdoms to rule could

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be quite complicated so because of that the king agreed to serve the creation of laws with the

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court case and to respect the right of the three states how making pact making

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practice more practice more an agreement between the king and the three states

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then we have the main institutions we have the royal court that is one it's a

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crown institution made up the king and his advisors then we have the Viceroy

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that is the king's representative in each kingdom so at least we have four

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Viceroy's one in Barcelona one in Catalonia one in Valencia and one in

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Mallorca and when the crown of Aragon conquered Naples or Serginia they will

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made another they will point another visceroy in these places it's an important word because

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in tercera de la eso you are going to hear about the visceroids a lot of different times

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so keep in mind visceroids the kings representative in each kinder then we have the cortes that you

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already know what is a courtes and we have one courtes in each kingdom in Aragon in

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Catalonia and in Valencia so why not in Mallorca because in Mallorca we have the

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great and general council Mallorca was ruled by the great and general council

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another two institution that we have to mention are they generally that that

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maybe you have here in the news they generally that there is a permanent

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permanent commission of the Cortes in Catalonia just in Catalonia and the

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chief of justice of Aragon who mediate in disputes between the king and the

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ability them talking about about economy we have to mention again that are we

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coach on a livestock farming where the most important economic activity

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especially in the inland inside of the peninsula not in the shore in the in

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love the main agricultural produce where the Mediterranean trilogy that we have

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what web grape vines and leaves that nowadays are still the Mediterranean

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trilogy also but on the other hand in the cities became home to artisans group

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into yields I don't work as shoemakers silver makers blacksmith and so on but

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also but the main important one was the manufacture of glove that was the most

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dynamic sector so because of this big amount of artisans and guilds and

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products many products were exported and trade became the most important activity

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in the crowd so the main difference with Castile is that here trade was an

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important activity also and because of the trade related to society the

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bourgeois is going to be is going to increase a lot and they are going to be

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an important part of the society in the crown of Aragon so now we are going to

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talk about the growth of the bourgeois remember that this is here in catalan in

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In Aragon we can also find that the society is divided in estimates, nobility, clergy

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and ordinary people.

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So the nobility and the clergy were the most privileged social groups, however manufacturing

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and trade led to the emergence of the Burguesois who demanded greater power.

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They wanted to obtain political power because they had economic power.

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So because of that, they created the Consejo de Ciento.

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They were assemblies held by the local Burguesa to make different treaties or agreements among

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them.

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local bourgeois held a lot of money and because of that they were known as

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honorable citizens finally we need to mention the letter D nor B D the

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mediterranean expansion of the crown because in less than in less than 200

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years the crown of aragon expanded its territory across the mediterranean sea

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they are going to achieve places such as naples serginia the north of africa sicily

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but during a short period of time even they are going to control part of greece you can check

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the map that appear in page 141 or if not here i have another one but in spanish

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where you can see that from barcelona mainly the main important port they are going to conquer

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naples sardinia sicily and even part of greece because of this because of the increase in trade

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the city of barcelona organized a system of consulates and delegation in the main

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mediterranean cities these consulates were called the consulate of the sea there is a system of

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delegations to solve problems that emerge between merchants and the commercial authorities

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also trade was so important that was regulated by the book of the consulate of the sea a collection

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of legal trading rules so imagine the importance of the trade in this period of time for the crown

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of Aragon then even they have to create consulate consulate those in the main

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Mediterranean cities and they could create a book that that was a kind of

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collection of the legal trading rules the rules the laws that they have to

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apply so was so important for the crown of aragon the trade okay guys let me finish right here

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and in the next chapter i will talk about the kingdom of navarre see you soon