HIST1077 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Single Whip, Spanish Empire, Spanish Dollar
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Where did new world gold and silver go, and in what ways did the flood of. Chapter 1 to 2 why this contact at this time world views change chapter 2. C. 1. a) after the contact what is next - what trade systems take place, A. is not plentiful in europe: used around the rest of the world, brought form the new world. D. important for cultural reasons but mainly for money: before the new world it was brought in from africa. A. 1. silver and gold existed in eurasia before contact. Money: not a nationalized form of money. B. there are consolidating nation states in 1500 and 1600. B. 1. ie spain, england: there are distinctions between kinds of money. A. 1. b) i. e. venetian ducat - big gold coins used by governments, rich merchants, people exchanging goods across far distances. A. 1. a) does not have to valuable to anyone outside of a local space because it does not travel.
