5.02- New Granada
Revolutions
Mike Duncan
4.8 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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After the Bourbons came to power they reformed the Spanish Empire and along the way created the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
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| 1:39.5 | Hello and welcome to Revolutions. Episode 5.2. New Granada. So last time we did a big |
| 1:55.2 | expansive overview of the origins of the Spanish Empire up through to the end of the Habsburg |
| 2:00.7 | era. And before we go any further, yes, I did bif the year of the Spanish Armada. It |
| 2:05.4 | was of course 1588, not 1580. Sorry about that. It has been corrected. Well, today we're |
| 2:12.2 | going to cover the empire as it undergoes reform under a new bourbon dynasty. But we will |
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