AllysonDBQ4

Allyson Pelletier Period4 Silver DBQ Both social and economic effects of the global flow of silver Lead negative and positive outlooks on people, who are trading the silver. The flow of silver caused problems for some people. Like having a limit of silver and good things like how bringing in silver, brings in other merchandise too. The economical effect is shown in doc. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, a negative view is shown in Doc 1, 2,3, 5 and the social effects shown in doc 4,5,6. To make this essay clearer, a document from a miner or a person who got silver would be helpful for my analysis. Their opinion about what was happening with the silver would help a lot. The doc 1,2,3,6,7 they show an economical effect on the different countries. Doc 1 is from a county official in the Ming dynasty, limiting how much silver you can take. This is probably because people who are rich get a lot of silver and then people who are poor barely get any. Doc 2 says how it ruined Spain because of all the Asian commodities. This effected them because the Asian commodities bought all their silver and their was none left for them. Doc 3 really affects the Ming dynasty because they are losing people working on the cultivation for silver. This affects how much food is being harvested later on. Doc 7 affects the Ming because they are getting too much silver and not enough of the other things, like fruit. This will hurt them because they will have to start getting rid of silver to buy fruit, which will make the economy go down. Doc 8 shows how it helps them because silver is a luxury and that it makes people happy. They are also able to get other items from the trade, which is good. His point of view may not be that reliable because his essay he writes is almost open for public and a lot of people see it and he doesn’t want to take a side. The negative points of view are from documents 1,2,3 and 5. Doc 1 shows a negative view because silver isn’t being distributed evenly. Doc2 shows how they were bad because silver was used to pay for these high prices. Doc 5 is from a Xu Dunqui Ming writer, telling how you can only pay for getting clothes dyed with silver. His point of view is fair because there are probably some people that cannot dye clothes because they don’t have silver. The social effects come from doc 4,5,and 6. Doc 4 is good because when silver is bought in so are other items from other cultures. This gives people not just silver. Doc 5 is bad because people now have to go get silver to get their clothes dyed. In doc 6 social effects affect people because people become greedy. The point if view from Antonio Vasquez is probably pretty true, he is probably not rich or a greedy person with a lot of silver. He probably sees to many greedy people with silver.