The Global Silver Flow: Potosí, Manila Galleons, and the Ming Silver Economy

Global Trade Shifts and Gunpowder Empires (1450–1750)

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Trace the movement of silver extracted from Potosí and Zacatecas across the Atlantic and Pacific via Manila Galleons to satisfy Chinese monetary demand.

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Global Trade Shifts and Gunpowder Empires (1450–1750)

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NY-SS

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Examine how transoceanic maritime trade networks, global flows of American silver, chartered joint-stock companies, and gunpowder weapons reoriented global power across Eurasia.

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9.10eNew York Social Studies Standards · 10th Grade

The Eastern Hemisphere trade networks were disrupted by the European development of new transoceanic trade across the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. Shifts in global trade networks and the use of gunpowder had positive and negative effects on Asian and European empires.