Actividades económicas - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:59:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Actividades económicas - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Indies Fleet https://historylab.es/indies-fleet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indies-fleet Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/flota-de-indias/ Work attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello, from the late 16th century, showing a view of the city of Seville from the Triana district.

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]]> The image shows a work attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello and dated around 1576, showing a view of the city of Seville from the Triana district. It shows the arrival of the Flota de Indias, a fleet of galleons that connected the city with the American viceroyalties, across the River Guadalquivir. The Fleet of the Indies, also known as the Spanish Treasure Fleet, was the backbone of the Race of the Indies, as it enabled Spain’s trade and navigation with its colonies, and allowed the Spanish trade monopoly with America. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the fleets of the Indies brought the wealth and products of the Spanish viceroyalties in America to the Crown of Castile, some of the most important being silver, gold, gems and spices, and cocoa, among others. The galleons left from the city of Veracruz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and arrived in Seville on the Guadalquivir and later in Cadiz, from 1717. From 1520 onwards, due to the increase in English and French piracy, the security of transport increased, and convoy systems consisting of galleons armed with cannons were established. Trade with the Spanish colonies was tightly controlled, and only the port of Seville had a monopoly on this until 1717, when the Casa de la Contratación passed to Cadiz. Spain enjoyed this monopoly for more than two centuries, even though powers such as England, France and the Netherlands tried to take it away. Thanks to overseas trade, Spain became the richest country in Europe, which allowed it to finance various wars to expand its power.

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]]> Sectors of activity in Sigüenza (1521-1797) https://historylab.es/sectors-of-activity-in-siguenza-1521-1797/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sectors-of-activity-in-siguenza-1521-1797 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:25 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/sectores-de-actividad-en-siguenza-1521-1797/ Table showing the number of people registered in Sigüenza and their division by sector of activity between 1521 and 1797

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]]> In 1138, Alfonso VII donated the lower part of Sigüenza to the Episcopal power, completing it with its castle in 1146 and uniting it into a single municipality. Thus began an Episcopal Lordship that would last almost seven centuries, until Don Juan Díaz de la Guerra renounced his jurisdiction in 1796 in favour of the Crown.
In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Sigüenza was a great administrative and economic centre for an extensive territory, which meant that economic activities had a great influence on all the economic activity in the area. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the data on professions obtained from the neighbourhoods are rather scarce, and do not allow us to recreate exactly what the economic model of Sigüenza was like, although they do outline some of the patterns present in that chronology, such as a secondary sector imposing itself on the rest of the occupations.
In the 18th century, the data begin to be much more complete, with a secondary sector that continues to predominate over the rest, but practically on a par with the primary and tertiary sectors.

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