DBQ on the impact of silver
The discovery of silver in Colonial America sparked a spanish global flow of silver as well as from the mines of Tokugawa, Japan. Although Spain was the primary distributer of silver, this global flow limited economic growth by creating an influx on silver. Peasants and people from lower classes were highly affected due to the fact that silver was required in an everyday basis but wasn’t provided for them. The Spanish, and the japanese served as providers of silver to the chinese economy. Throughout this time, the chinese were who received majority of the silver thus they slowly began to developed a dependency on the silver economy as displayed in several documents.
Outside observers such as Britain could observe and recognize this dependency on silver coming from the chinese as well as from the Spanish, causing a sense of competition in the global trade. In addition to these observations and assumptions made from the provided documents, an additional document portraying and showing china’s peasants struggles should be provided. This document would give a clearer view on how silver affected peasants on their perspective and point of view and how this affect their social and economic daily life.
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Silver became popular with its discovery in the Americas and with this discovery came the mining from the Spanish. As observed by a spanish priest, Antonio Vasquez de Espinoza, about 326,000,000 coins were extracted from silver mines. The Spanish economy began to flourish in record numbers while they set to work about 3,000 Indian men on the vast Potosi silver mines. The treatment of the men, however, wasn’t as good news as the silver coins were to Spain. They were treated harshly and unequally, set to work with heavy equipment that, as expressed by Antonio Vasquez, even an empty-handed man could hardly get them up. Just like Bartolome de las casas, Antonio
Vasquez believed that the way the spanish treated the Indians was completely wrong and harsh to
Outside observers such as Britain could observe and recognize this dependency on silver coming from the chinese as well as from the Spanish, causing a sense of competition in the global trade. In addition to these observations and assumptions made from the provided documents, an additional document portraying and showing china’s peasants struggles should be provided. This document would give a clearer view on how silver affected peasants on their perspective and point of view and how this affect their social and economic daily life.
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Silver became popular with its discovery in the Americas and with this discovery came the mining from the Spanish. As observed by a spanish priest, Antonio Vasquez de Espinoza, about 326,000,000 coins were extracted from silver mines. The Spanish economy began to flourish in record numbers while they set to work about 3,000 Indian men on the vast Potosi silver mines. The treatment of the men, however, wasn’t as good news as the silver coins were to Spain. They were treated harshly and unequally, set to work with heavy equipment that, as expressed by Antonio Vasquez, even an empty-handed man could hardly get them up. Just like Bartolome de las casas, Antonio
Vasquez believed that the way the spanish treated the Indians was completely wrong and harsh to