One of the tools of fiscal control exercised as a measure of social control in the 16th century was that imposed by the councils on the transhumance of beehives, carried out almost exclusively by the Moorish population. The practice of this type of transhumance was common in the Kingdom of Granada, mainly due to a tradition rooted in the Muslim period.
The taxation imposed by the councils was usually much higher than that imposed on other species and transhumant livestock, fixed on the consumption of “grass”, which was often higher for beekeeping than for the consumption of animals, at least when it came to paying certain taxes. As can be seen in the resource, the price of beehives is always higher than that of sheep and goats, except at three key moments, the years 1557-1558, 1562-1568 and after the Moorish period.
However, the equalisations are not due to a decrease in the price of beehives, but rather to the occasional increase in the price of grass for sheep, indicating that this tax burden had more of a social control function than a proportional tax on this economic activity.

Collection: Graphics

Project: 2. Social and economic impact of technological revolutions in Europe., 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.

Chronology: XVI

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University, Postgraduate

Link: http://www.tiemposmodernos.org/tm3/index.php/tm/article/view/129

Resource type: Graph

Format: Line chart

Source: Díaz, J. P. (2008). "La fiscalidad concejil sobre los abejares trashumantes en la tierra de Vera (Almería) durante la Época Moderna", en Tiempos modernos, nº 16, p. 10.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2008

Owner: Roberto José Alcalde López (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Tiempos Modernos ©Juan Pablo Díaz López

Abstract: Line graph showing the average price of sheep pasture and apiary in Vera (Almería) during the 16th century

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