global flow of silver
CONTEXT: Before the usage of global currency, there was the barter system. The barter system was ‘equivalent’ goods and services exchanged between people without the use of any physical currency. People everywhere traded with one another using the barter system. But, silver came in influx to the old world and people started to heavily use it.
- Think of WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN
Change in.. values of Confucianism
Change in market economy from the barter system
- Good Thesis: Merchants and traders from Europe and Asia were able to experience economic success from increased trading. However, the success of these traders and merchants came at the expense of enslaved Native and lower classes’ social and economic well-being, who did not gain the same amount of wealth.
A clear position and reasons that state why.
- Strong: The Revolutionary War ushered in a slew of wide-ranging and permanent social
changes in American society This is a clear, strong, and debatable thesis
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3. Compound: using “and” to prove two main points
HIPP - historical significance/situation, intention/intended audience, purpose, point of view
H - historical significance + situation
• During this time…
• At the time this document was written…
• This was an era of…
• The historical backdrop for this document was…
• What was happening at the time was…
I - intended audience/intention
• This document was aimed at…
• The author was reaching out to…
• This document/author targets…
• The author/document is addressing (this individual/group)…
• This was meant for…
P - purpose
• The reason for this document is…
• The author’s intention was to…
• The author wrote this in order to…
• The author clearly wanted to…
• The author hoped to…
P - point of view
• From the author’s perspective…
• The author believed that…
• The author felt that…
• Considering that the author was a ___ they would likely feel ___
• The author saw this as…
• The author’s perception was that of…
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Potosi / Zacatecas (Mexico)- pure silver labor mining area where the Spanish forced natives to mine tonnes and tonnes of silver and this shows silver was very valued
Peso de ocho - one of the first silver coins from spain, widely used and was used in Asia specifically china. Common currency
China started to trade outside the world because of the influx of silver and China adopted silver as their main currency
Global currency means having a better way to trade around the world instead of a barter system = Globalization