The last Manila galleon sails

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1. Story
2. The transpacific galleon service ended in 1815, after two and a half centuries, as the Spanish American empire dissolved in the independence wars and the monopoly system that sustained the route lost both its silver source and its legal basis. The route had been discovered once, in 1565, and thereafter simply repeated; its ending is the closing of the first continuously operated global trade circuit rather than the failure of a technology.
3. Knowledge
4. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
5. Manila
6. Acapulco
7. The last Manila galleon sails
8. Connections
9. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
10. Manila
11. Acapulco
12. Acapulco
13. Manila
14. The Atlantic wind and current system
15. Celestial navigation (latitude sailing)
16. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
17. Urdaneta finds the return route across the Pacific
18. Manila is founded as the eastern terminus
19. The last Manila galleon sails
20. Silver
21. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
22. Manila is founded as the eastern terminus
23. The last Manila galleon sails
24. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
25. Urdaneta finds the return route across the Pacific
26. The last Manila galleon sails
27. Evidence
28. The standard narrative history of the transpacific galleon trade: its route, its cargoes, its termini at Manila and Acapulco and its ending in 1815. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. Schurz remains the reference work but is now over eighty years old, and its figures have been revised by later scholarship; a curator should treat it as the frame and check quantities elsewhere.