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However it did make some Spaniards wealthy



Some Spaniards, yes. Not the country.


Spain as a country was one of the most powerful and largest of that time period.

So of course the whole country benefited.

As for some spaniards profiting, of course, it was still feudal, aristocracy profited.




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