Columbian Exchange Dbq Essay

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Columbian Exchange allowed the change of animals, plants, trade, and technologies flourished the economy in different countries. One of these exchanged products, sliver, played an important role in social and economic role in Ming Dynasty, Spanish Empire, Japan and England. Japan and England benefited by the flow of silver, since Japan located at the mine center with numerous sliver, and England emerged in Asian trade networks . Spain in another way, was befitted at the beginning, but then Spain economy was ruined by silver. Moreover, silver brought more negative effects on economy and social life for Ming Dynasty and their solutions provided, since Ming Chinese government required taxes in silver. Silk, tea, luxury goods were always wanted …show more content…

As the amount of silver increased, and the inflation caused by paper money, the Ming Chinese government required all domestic taxes paid in sliver. However, this policy caused a lot of problems in society. Reported by Wang Xijue to the emperor in 1593, the lack of silver coins in society caused the price of grain decreased, so farmers have limited return food (Document 3). Moreover, written by Xu Dunqiu in his essay the changing times, beside trading products with products, domestic trade was paid by silver as also (Document 5). Therefore, if normal people want to maintain their lives, they had to change their products with moneylender. However, the taxes had already spend most of the food that a famers cultivated, so if famers could barely hold their lives. As food supplies decreased and their lives were being threaten, they probably would rebel the government for living. …show more content…

Spain earned a lot through trading with China. Written by Tomás de Mercado in manual of deals and contracts, it represented that in order to but the products in China, they had to pay a high price which ruined the economy and let silver flowed out of Spanish Empire. Moreover, some of the goods that Spain bought were stones (Document 3). Besides the economy, mining silver required huge amount of labors to work extremely hard. Represent in Document 6, there were more 3000 Indian workers worked hard everyday to mine the silver. By wasting labors in mining silver, Spain could barely develop tiger plantation economy. Therefore, the silver required of China, and labors at mining caused the shortage of Spain

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