>crashing this economy with no survivors

>visits Egypt on way to Hajj
>leaves behind nothing but hyper-inflation, mass unemployment, and decades of economic stagnation in his wake
It's like poetry.

>>1501346
Did that really happen?

WE

>>1503338
ARE

>>1503343
GERMANIC

>>1501484
Hilariously, yes. Coincidentally, the same thing happened in the Ottoman Empire and Spain after Spain brought back all that new world gold and silver which got traded to the Ottomans for silk road shit before the direct Indo-Chinese trade routes to Europe were fully established. It's one of the first recorded Eurasian market crashes.

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> Don't worry with all that gold from the new world there is no way Spain would suffer bankruptcy ever again!