Silver Trade DBQ Skills Practice

Prompt: Evaluate the most significant factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns that developed between 1550 and 1800. Instructions: Read the following documents and determine what they reveal about the factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns that developed between 1550 and 1800. In the box provided, record what contributing factors you learned about from that specific document. Document 1: Factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns: ● High prices attracted the Asains commodities ● The Spanish used the silver to pay for these items ● Some of the materials they would trade silver for Granite cobblestones ● This would allow for the stability of boats Document 2: Factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns: ● In this image it depicts how the the Europeans used the slaves to harvest the silver from lands ● There are a much running into the background in search of this valuable resource Document 3: Factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns: ● The portuguese were able to trade with the Chinese to obtain necessary items ● These items would include Gold, Perfume, Silk, Cooper, Porcelain, and many other luxury goods ● They would trade silver for these items ● They would get this silver from japan at a relatively cheap price Document 4: Factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns: ● Large ships came from Great china bringing goods to Manila every year ● An inspection is made on the value/worth of the goods, taking the prices of Manila prices into consideration ● Vessel pays 3% on everything to the royal treasurer Document 5: Factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns: ● In Hangzhou dye shops allowed for several pieces of cloth to be dyed before charging the customers ● Payments could be made with food =for when you are going to dye the clot ● When your cloth has died you receive a bill that needs to be paid in silver Document 6: Factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns: ● ● ● ● ● In the West Indies, Huge wealth is taken out of Potosì ever since 1545 to 1628(present) 326 million silver coins have been taken Not including the amount secretly taken from the mines to Spain No 20% tax registry fee Countries include Spain, the Philippines, and China Document 7: Factors contributing to the global silver trade patterns: ● East-India spice-trade ● Chief investments/importations were dyed in cotton cloth, silks, drugs,cotton-yarn, and wool ● Commodities were for their use and were a greater part of peace and were brought to London which sold to France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and their colonies ● Europe was taking from things that could not be used from Asia, only luxurious things and things that would perish ● Gold and silver were sent to Asia USING DOCS TO ANSWER THE PROMPT: Read through all of the documents and determine how you can organize the documents in a way that can answer the prompt: what factors were contributing to (driving) the silver trade from 1550 to 1800? The factor that contributed to the global silver trade patterns #1: The factor that contributed to the global silver trade patterns #2: The factor that contributed to the global silver trade patterns #3: Portuguese were able to obtain cheap silver from japan resources What docs support this claim? Document 3 Silver allowed people to pay with a materialistic currency instead of Resources Silver was one of the main trading resources since it was extremely valuable and was able to be traded for other important items What docs support this claim? Document 5 What docs support this claim? Document 1 CONTEXT: Set the scene for your essay! Write a contextual statement for the essay prompt above. To earn this point, the response must relate the topic of the prompt to broader historical events, developments, or processes that occur before, during, or continue after the time frame of the question. This point is not awarded for merely a phrase or reference. As Europe colonized America, they discovered that there are already civilizations there, albeit not as advanced or powerful as their own; as new diseases are introduced, hundreds of people begin to die. As Europe's economy expands, so does the slave trade, and they realize that enslaving indigenous peoples provides them with a cheap labor force. Europeans established the hacienda and Mita systems to keep indigenous peoples in debt and as slaves. Europe discovered vast silver reserves in Mexico. THESIS: Write a thesis statement for this prompt. You do not need to identify specific documents in your thesis, simply summarize the factors you identified in Part I here to create your thesis statement. Governments began to gather silver as their principal form of currency, bartering any local items for it as silver became the single international trading currency. Evidence Beyond the Documents: Give one piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt. To earn this point, the response must describe the evidence and must use more than a phrase or reference. This additional piece of evidence must be different from the evidence used to earn the point for contextualization “In the next 200 years, the Spanish mined over 40,000 tons of silver from Potosi mine. The worth of silver today would be over $36 billion. In 1554, Spanish merchant Bartolome de Medina invented mercury amalgamation of silver ore. The process enabled the extraction of silver from low-grade ore. As a result, the production of silver at Potosi quadrupled between 1576 and 1585. - https://historyofyesterday.com/potosi-8f53581eac88 Potosi became the world's largest silver producer, and many mechanisms were put in place, notably the mita, to supply force in the mines, as inexpensive forced indigenous labor was crucial for silver output. Evidence Beyond the Documents: Give one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt.To earn this point, the response must describe the evidence and must use more than a phrase or reference. This additional piece of evidence must be different from the evidence used to earn the point for contextualization “ according to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, goes back to the Spanish peso, which was accepted as the basic unit of value in colonial America during the late 1700s. Handwritten manuscripts dating to that time show that the peso —formally “peso de ocho reales” or “piece of eight” - Where did the dollar sign come from? - HISTORY The Spanish devised their own silver coin, the "real de a ocho" or peso, which was not very unique, but it did have one big advantage: it had worth all across the world, effectively making it a worldwide currency. SOURCING: Choose three documents and complete a sourcing statement for those documents. To earn this point, the response must explain how or why (rather than simply identifying) the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, or audience is relevant to an argument about the prompt for each of the three documents source SPY Sourcing Document #2 SUMMARIZE Connection Prompt In this image, it depicts how the Europeans used slaves to harvest the silver from lands. to the Why was this written? SPY Sourcing SUMMARIZE Connection Prompt Document #5 In Hangzhou, dye shops allowed for several pieces of cloth to be dyed before charging the customers.Payments could be made with food for when you are going to dye the cloth but when your cloth has dyed you receive a bill that needs to be paid in silver. to Why was this written? SPY Sourcing SUMMARIZE This connects to the prompt because its hows the hard labor be committed by slaves tp harvest and get silver. It shows how valuable silver really was due to the amount of people harvesting silver. The prompt is about the most significant factors and this shows how sil=ver was maintained and grabbed which is very significant This was written to show hard labor and for the reader to depict what is being seen. The image shows multiple people in hard labor scavenging for silver and that shows the importance of the material. the This connects to the prompt because it shows how silver was being used as a form of payment and now it shows a possibility on how silver was getting across and around. It being a form of regular payment signifies it and its importance It was written because it is describing a form of payment including silver and food. Ultimately showing how currency was being moved around. Document #7 East-India spice trade because Chief investments/imports were dyed in cotton cloth, silks, drugs,cotton-yarn, and wool. Commodities were for their use and were a greater part of peace and were brought to London which were sold to France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and their colonies. Europe was taking from things that could not be used from Asia, only luxurious things and things that would perish and Gold and silver were being sent to Asia. Connection Prompt to Why was this written? the This is significant because it shows how silver was being moved and how some places kind of didn't understand currency. Europe took perishable things and moved gold and silver to Asia for it to not be seen again. Document 7 was talking about how Europe was taking materialistic things from Asia which was a lowkey decrease in money because the things they were getting would soon perish making them invaluable.