https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar silver en-us 2017-10-20 12:35:11 UTC 2023-05-16 15:11:30 UTC hello@padlet.com bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/199027782 2017-10-20 12:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/199027782 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/199032919 2017-10-20 13:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/199032919 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/199033126 2017-10-20 13:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/199033126 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/199040839 Potosí was the most famous and most productive source of silver in the Spanish empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Settlement on the site, deep in the eastern range of the Andes in southern Bolivia, dates from the discovery of silver ores in the Cerro Rico of Potosí in 1545. Despite the great altitude the town grew quickly on moderately sloping terrain immediately north of the Cerro.]]> 2017-10-20 13:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/199040839 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200649411 When the spanish found all of the silver that thye did they made a mistake. They forgot about one major rule of finance. Inflation. They brought so much silver into the world that there was a less demand for it as it became easyier to get. This caused prices to drop down and the value of silver to go down. Sooner or later that piece of bread that cost 1 silver coin costs 5. and you still get 1 loaf of bread.]]> 2017-10-26 00:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200649411 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200650124 2017-10-26 00:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200650124 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200650183 The spansih aquired silver from mines that they had the native work in. They usally required the natives to work a given amount of time in their life in working in the mines. The mines were terribly dangrous and in some cases people would maime there kids so they would not have to work in the mines. Some reasons why the mines were dangrous were they were unstable and could not be held up and had collpases all the time. And the process to obtain silver was extremly dangrous as it involved mercury a toxic substance that causes multiple medical problems for the body.]]> 2017-10-26 00:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200650183 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200650785 In order to obtain the silver there were many steps to making it. The first step was toi get gthe silver ore. The ore was not always pure silver and it coukd be stuck in between some rocks. In order to seperate the silver from the rocks the spanish had the natives use mercury to dissolve the rock and they woukd then melt the silver and make it into spanish coins. This process was dangrous.]]> 2017-10-26 00:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200650785 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200651104 The spaish had lots of silver but they did not spend it wisely. They did not help there countire out and invest the silver back into the people . Instaed they spent lots of the silver causing the economy to go down as the value of silver was at a low. The spaish used the silver to grow there army and build boats to be better prepared for wars against other countries. They invested the monie inot boats ships and wars as well as giving it to the monarchy as spain was ruled by one person in power.]]> 2017-10-26 00:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200651104 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200976019 2017-10-26 18:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200976019 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200976973 2017-10-26 18:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200976973 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200977715 2017-10-26 18:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200977715 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200977840 2017-10-26 18:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200977840 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200977922 Most of the spanish silver was produced in the New world.]]> 2017-10-26 18:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200977922 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200979121 2017-10-26 18:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200979121 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200979415 The spanish goverment at the time was a monarchy and that means there was only 1 ruler or 1 family in power and the heir to the throne of power was the child of the current ruler.]]> 2017-10-26 18:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200979415 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200980882 2017-10-26 18:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200980882 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200980897 2017-10-26 18:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200980897 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200980917 2017-10-26 18:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200980917 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200982190 The spanish used the melted silver to make spanish coins called The Real de a Ocho were the most common used currency in the world because there were so many of them. Since there were so many the prices went down.]]> 2017-10-26 18:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200982190 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200982283 In 1585 worsening relations between Philip II of Spain and Elizabeth I of England erupted into war. The spanish afraid of wars in the furture and the one at hand used a large portion of the silver that they had to build ships and gear for their armie so they could conqour more land and become more powerful. unfortunatly they forgot about weather.]]> 2017-10-26 18:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200982283 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200984555 2017-10-26 18:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200984555 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200990999 2017-10-26 18:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200990999 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200991010 2017-10-26 18:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200991010 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200991358 2017-10-26 18:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200991358 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200991542 The spanish conquest of Peru in the 1530s provided Spain with immense quantities of silver that it used to secure the luxuries of the East.  Between 1570 and 1780 an estimated four thousand to five thousand tons of silver were exported to Manila.]]> 2017-10-26 18:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/200991542 bcarter21 https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/201060628 The spainish went to south america or known then as the new world to harvest and collect all of there gold.]]> 2017-10-27 00:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bcarter21/j3k4el8bbvar/wish/201060628