They got more than they requested from both. The gold they took back to Europe to pay for wars, and the silver they shipped to China to buy silk and porcelain. The women and their children were left in Peru, and they are still there.
The hunger for gold has only increased since then. It is trading today 5% higher than yesterday. People are selling bitcoin (especially those linked to paper currency) and buying gold and silver. The dollar is weakening and losing credibility, while gold is shining like always. Oro, I have none. Mujeres, I have no use for them. Sad, isn't it?
It rapidly led to the dissolution of the robust Jewish communities that had emerged from the dark Middle Ages, making it impossible to continue the effective survival strategies of solidarity and negotiation with the peoples and rulers around them. In pre-Revolution France, the Alsace Jews were oppressed yet rich and growing, and the Portuguese Jewish refugees had normalized their status and become very rich with tropical merchandise. After the "liberation", the ghettos and communities of Europe were dissolved, and the Jews achieved equal rights and assimilated. Nothing remains from the "old" European Jews, and the current population is newcomers from Eastern Europe and North Africa. If the French Revolution had been suffocated, there would be around 200 million French people today, and about 25 million European Jews (instead of half a million).
