Peru Gain Gold And Silver

The book "Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi" show us that men who exploited silver mines used to be ordinary Spaniard that came to Potosi in the early stages. For example Antonio Lopez was an ordinary male, familiar and with not that much education, but he became a silver trader at Potosi. Lopez's experience as a silver trader brought him into contact with the processes of silver making in knowledge, and especially seems likely to have provided him with an education in the capital structure and operations of the industry. Potosi gives to Antonio Lopez the opportunity to grow economically and change him into an important person that delineates the economic and social history of Potosi .

      When Pizarro got back, he and his brothers discovered a group of people called the Incas. They saw that the Incas had a lot of gold and greed took them over. They tricked the Incan leader and captured him. The ransom to release the Incan emperor, Atahualpa, was to fill a room measuring 22 by 17 feet with gold. The Incas did fill the room but Pizarro killed the emperor anyway and conquered the Incas. When news of Pizarro’s conquest reached King Charles’ ears, he was overjoyed. He expanded the territory which Pizarro governed. A lot of South America was under Spanish rule. After all of the gold was divided between all of the leaders of the expedition and the king, each man got about $52,000 in Spanish pesos. That was a lot of money back then.

After a mutiny and less then fruitful journeys, Pizarro convinced the Spanish government to allow an expedition with the prospect of being the future governor of the unclaimed land Peru (The Mariners' Museum, 2014). He made his way towards the city of Cajamarca in 1532, being allowed to travel inland by the Incan emperor, Atahualpa, believing they were “children of the sun” (Black, 2005). At the city, Pizarro hosted a huge feast, with many Inca nobles, including the emperor, attending. While at the feast, the Incan guests were rushed, killed, and the emperor taken hostage. After chats, Atahualpa agreed to ransom himself by agreeing to fill a room, and when that was not enough, he doubled the offer. The final offer consisting of over 3,000 cubic feet worth of gold and silver (The Mariners' Museum, 2014). Even after having to send their own troops out to help collect all the riches from across the Incan empire, eventually his men returned with a staggering load of riches. After all was said and done, by June 1533, Pizarro had 333lbs worth of gold and silver, a value of nearly 100 million US dollars (The Mariners' Museum, 2014). He sent his brother to turn his 1/5 portion due to the Spanish Crown and was promptly reward with fame, fortune, and royal titles whereas Atahualpa was executed, but not before he was converted. He still had to conquer Cuzco, the Capital of Peru. This would prove to be

In the mid-1800s, Peru's economy revolved around natural fertilizer which they called guano. Guano was the gold of the time, it would grow crops in almost any soil. Guano was in high demand, as it was the best fertilizer at the time. It had the perfect combination of nutrients and had plentiful supply of nitrogen and phosphorus. Peru was flourishing but their economy ran solely on guano. Guano was being devoured and it would soon run out. After Peru ran out of guano, the country collapsed.

This got the Spanish lots of silver and silver coins, if only they used this to there advantage instead of waste it. Having lots of silver can give you great advantages and help build up your country,putting money into your country is one of the best investments to make because its the gift that never stops giving. That's if you do the right thing with your money, which is what the Spaniards didn't do.(Doc# 2) A Spanish scholar explains in manual of Deals and Contracts, of how instead of investing the silver the Spanish had into there own country they bought Asian commodities, which just puts money into the hands of the Chinese. Not thinking about what's better in the long run for their country or the Philippines, instead of buying materials and goods from Asia that will most likely be out of style or not good anymore the Spaniards should have put money into the Philippines and built cobblestone streets which would have lasted the people hundreds of years instead of one or two years.

On the Haiti land, they found many sailors left behind at the Fort Navidad had been killed in a battle with the Indians. After that had roamed the land in gangs looking for golds, taking women and children as slaves for sex and labor. They had found no gold fields in Haiti, but had to fill up the ships. It was a great slave raid, rounded up to fifteen hundred Arawak men, women, and children. They put them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs. After that, then they pick the best five hundred specimens to load onto the ships. Those five hundred, 2 hundred died in the route, the other rest arrived alive in Spain and were put up for sale by the archdeacon of the town. Columbus ordered all people of age of 14 years old or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every 3 months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians that had no copper tokens had their hand cut off and bled to death. Indians had given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. They fled them were they hunted down with the dogs and were kill.

silver. The discovery of silver in Mexico and Peru increased the wealth of Spain. Silver mining became

Gold, or the search for wealth and prosperity, has impacted the economy and development the countries of Latin America have today, God, the spreading of religion ( mostly Christianity ) , has effected the culture and religion of the people, and glory, the need for political power, has shaped the current government systems that countries use today. As an example, the spanish conquest of Cortes had fully taken over and renovated the life of the Aztecs who lived in Mexico. In his situation, he introduced new diseases, plants, and animals to the Aztecs to which they have never seen before, changing their culture and beliefs. Because of this diffusion, the Aztecs have adapted to use farming techniques, hunting techniques, and many more other things that the Spanish have introduced to them. Now in Mexico, there lies a great mix of Aztecs and the Spanish, a unique culture. As another example, the government of Latin American countries wish to seek minerals/ natural resources from forests in order to help prosper their economy, which leads to the process of deforestation. The effects of deforestation are devastating to ecosystems and animal life in the rain forests. This greed held by the government to totally destroy rain forests for the purpose of their economy

There were limitless wealth with American tribes in gold and other metals the Spanish wanted it so they created law called gold rescue. Meaning they could go to America if the king got twenty percent. The law gold rescue exploited through slavery of people in the New World. The land original believed to be an island and the natives made into slaves. When the Spanish tried to make slaves out of natives, the Mayans attacked them. Finding some natives who knew Spanish who reveled there was gold. There was a second expedition where Spaniards took friendly contact leading to receiving gifts of masks that had gold on them. This news was to King Charles about the gold and sent the masks. Herman Cortez was captain third expedition and he contributed

“Thus were the Peruvians made the sad victims of a greedy people who at first showed them only good faith and even friendship” (Gaffigny 10).

The Spanish used Mexico and Peru, the Aztec and Incan territories respectively, to extract the vast deposits of gold and silver in those regions and forced the natives to produce export goods and to work in sugar mills and mines, even though they were not technically slaves to the Spanish. The textbook mentions that Bolivia itself produced around “forty-five thousand tons of silver in the next two centuries [17th and 18th century]” (Henkin and McLennan, Convergence and Contact 2016). These examples further indicate the Spanish’s true ambitions in the Americas, even three decades after

Then the spanish came in. The Aztecs were wiped out in seventy-five days with the Incas not doing any better. Spanish diseases came in and the Spanish made the Natives mine 150000 tons of silver in the silver mountain of Mita. The Spanish would be still rich if only the Spanish didn’t waste their

This would take longer and the desired comparison goal would not be well achieved. In the comparison, one who would have left honest and so hardworking would come back when he is bribe-hungry, inhuman and slothful (Hunefeldt, 2004). This brings the lesson that a different kind of testing the quality of civilization in the barracks should be changed for desirable and accurate results are obtained. Testing the quality of civilization would have also involved the knowledge on the resources that Peru had. The soldiers were not aware of the resources as they were only in the barracks. The current boom of gold is due to civilization that the soldiers have in protecting the resources that the country has (Hunefeldt,

Have you ever been to Peru? I have not been to Peru myself. I spent a lot of time researching this country. Peru is a very interesting country. Here are some facts about Peru.

Illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon has led to crime, deforestation and mercury poisoning in local villages and has further weakened the economy. Peru is the largest producer of gold in South America, the sixth largest in the world and in recent years Peru’s remote Amazon rainforest has become a hotspot for illegal mining. An estimated ten to thirty-thousand illegal miners work day in and day out to remove flecks of gold from Amazonian soil using cyanide, mercury, lead and arsenic which has in turn contaminated water sources and poisoned many in rural villages. Mining camps run rampant with crime, including sex trafficking and slave labor, poaching is common and litter is scattered everywhere. These miners have come from cities across Peru