New World Trade

Economic system

• Silver was far more abundant than gold, It outweighed gold in quantity and value.
• The mining industries in Mexico and Peru powered the Spanish Economy.
• Silver produced profits for private investors.
• The government reserved a fifth of the silver production for itself, known as the quint.
• Silver helped in many ways like helping to finance a powerful army

Sugar plantations

• At least 60,000 indigenous farmers and fishers
• They used +1,000 slaves to work on the plantations
• Produced products such as sugar cane
• Increased the plantations profit, and economy started up in the New World
• This lead to many more different plantations starting in the New World

Aztec empire

• The Aztecs developed in Central America around the 13th century
• become one of the most powerful empires in the American world
• The Aztecs were an isolated society, but were also complex with their economy
• they relied heavily on self agriculture. Their economy was large and they were able to build a nice capital
• isolated them from other societies in America

Aztec empire

• The Aztecs administered their empire with a slightly centralized rule from Tenochtitlan
• but also possessed city-states with leader officials.

indigenous people

• The indigenous people of america resisted the Spanish people as they tried to take over.
• They fought against the Spanish because the didn't want to follow the Repartimiento system.
• The Indigenous america people didn't like these rules because they were being
• treated badly so they tried to overthrow this rule of the Viceroy rule.
• A slave system would replace the Encomienda system

Trading industry

• The positive effects of the fur trade was that the French were able create better connections with the natives.
• This brought more money in as well as they were learned techniques such as trading animals.
• There are some negative effects for instance were the the British came in and the French
• and British started to compete so that they would have more money, power, and land.
• Which eventually led to the French and Indian.