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57: The Spanish Empire's shipwreck problem
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:24:04
Publish Date: 2020-12-04 11:00:00
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When the galleon San José sank in a typhoon in 1694, it was carrying a cargo worth 2% of the GDP of the entire Spanish empire. Fernando Arteaga, Desiree Desierto and Mark Koyama tell Tim Phillips about how bribes sank Spanish treasure ships.

Read the Vox column about Spanish shipwrecks.
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