“A great superpower, weakened by economic calamity at home and staggering under the debt from years of war in the Middle East, finally collapses.  A new political best-seller, or an apocalyptic Hollywood blockbuster? Neither — it’s the story told by a 1622 shipwreck whose treasures were desperately needed to shore up the finances of the struggling Spanish Empire.  The galleon Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario was one of 28 ships in the Tierra Firme fleet; all were sailing from the New World back to Spain, laden with colonial treasures, when they were struck by a powerful hurricane off the Florida Keys.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-of-a-17th-century-spanish-shipwreck-yields-awesome-treasure-2013-4

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