The Spanish empire in the sixteenth century was funded largely by
a. taxes and requisitions from the Netherlands.
b. gold and silver from the New World colonies.
c. the development of iron-working and coal mining in Spain.
d. taxes on the slave trade.
e. new wars of conquest.
b
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