To Pluck a Golden Apple

The taxes paid by Castile > the new world gold and silver, by a considerable margin. (according to The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers)

Huh, might need to confer the sources, (i have Rise and Fall on my kindle so that can be don at work, but those number were from The Cambridge Economic History of Europe Vol 4 The Economy of Expanding Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries & The New Cambridge Modern History,.Vol.04:The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War,1609-48\49 and i need to be home to look at those.)
While Rise is a very good book, it does have some flaws (it does not take British financial strength into account when he talks about the WW1 period as an example)

Anyway, the point i was trying to make is that the main resource required to fight in this period is money.
 
Huh, might need to confer the sources, (i have Rise and Fall on my kindle so that can be don at work, but those number were from The Cambridge Economic History of Europe Vol 4 The Economy of Expanding Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries & The New Cambridge Modern History,.Vol.04:The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War,1609-48\49 and i need to be home to look at those.)
While Rise is a very good book, it does have some flaws (it does not take British financial strength into account when he talks about the WW1 period as an example)

Something I'd love to talk to you about when you have time, that (underlined). But that's off topic for this thread anyhow, so no rush.

Anyway, the point i was trying to make is that the main resource required to fight in this period is money.
Definitely. Without money, despite the wisdom of Machiavelli ("good soldiers can get you gold"), you're going nowhere.

And even if it's not the chief source of wealth, the New World is undoubtedly a significant one - Charles is going to be trying harder to get it, not essentially cutting it off.
 
Since I am going off line for March, I am going to stop this TL, and restart it when I return in April. Secondly, I will make it better. I mean longer more detailed posts, pictures, maps and information. I had originally started this out of boredom as I started more research for my "Onward Christian Soldiers" TL. I did not expect it to become well liked. So out of fairness I will Improve it make it a real Time Line.
 
Since I am going off line for March, I am going to stop this TL, and restart it when I return in April. Secondly, I will make it better. I mean longer more detailed posts, pictures, maps and information. I had originally started this out of boredom as I started more research for my "Onward Christian Soldiers" TL. I did not expect it to become well liked. So out of fairness I will Improve it make it a real Time Line.

So you are going offline till April then? Starting right now?

Anyhow, hope this can be continued eventually.
 
So you are going offline till April then? Starting right now?

Anyhow, hope this can be continued eventually.

No, at the end of February. But since I was thinking of restarting this soon, because I am unsatisfied with it, I decided to stop it now.

The reason I am waiting till March is because I am going to finish the "Deganawatha" part of the Haudenosaunee Imperium TimeLine.
 
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