Jewish Pirates - Treasure for Days! & The New World - Extra History - #4

To shore up your coding skills and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://brilliant.org/ExtraCredits/ and sign up for free. And also, the first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription. We've seen how the diaspora affected the naval warfare of the Mediterranean, but there is another part of this event that can't be ignored: Columbus' journey to the Americas. The colonizing of the "New World" gave Jewish people expelled from Spain a whole new place to escape to, one hopefully out of reach from the Inquisition. And we see all of these ideas coalesce in one particular pirate, Moses Cohen Henriques, a man who used his connections to understand the workings of the Spanish colonies and pulled off one of the biggest treasure grabs on the high seas. Dude had his citizenship papers signed by Henry Morgan it really doesn't get more pirate-y than this. ___________ Support the people who make this show, vote for future Extra History topics and get great perks at our Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Subscribe & ! to our channel on YouTube at http://bit.ly/SubToEC Got more info about Extra Credits on our website at http://extracredits.site/ Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://extracredits.store/ ___________ Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://www.extracredits.site/extra-credits-community-code-of-con Come chat with us live on Twitch http://bit.ly/ECtwitch Want to contact us directly? Email us: contact@extra-credits.net Interested in sponsoring an episode? Email us: extracredits@standard.tv ___________ Want more Extra Credits? Follow us on social media: Twitter : http://bit.ly/ECTweet Facebook : http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Instagram : http://bit.ly/ECisonInstagram ___________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Outro music: "Los Piratas Judios" by Tiffany Roman http://www.tiffanyromanlouk.com/


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