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    The Consulado de mercaderes was the Spanish merchant guild, founded in Seville, the sole port for Spain's overseas trade in the 16th and 17th centuries...
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    merchants' guild based in Seville, the Consulado de mercaderes, which worked in conjunction with the Casa de Contratación. Trade was physically controlled...
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    country (notably regarding the payment of wages to sailors). The consulado de mercaderes was set up in 1543 in Seville as a merchant guild to control trade...
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    commissioned the building design from Juan de Herrera, the architect of the Escorial to house the Consulado de mercaderes of Seville.: 128  Until then, the merchants...
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    which routes the ships must follow. Together the Casa de Contratación and the Consulado de mercaderes (the merchant guild founded in 1543) regulated all...
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  • trade. As long as New Spain was sending silver and gold to the consulado de mercaderes in Seville, Genoa could flourish. Genoa became a large credit market...
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    of a consulado de mercaderes (merchant guild) in Mexico City indicates the concentration and organization of this economic elite. The consulado was founded...
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    form the Royal Company of the Philippines in 1785. In Caracas a consulado de mercaderes (a merchants' guild) replaced the company in 1793. One of the most...
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  • 1934 – Palacio de Bellas Artes inaugurated. 1937 Taller de Gráfica Popular established. Hotel Majestic opens in the Portal de Mercaderes. 1940 21 August:...
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