btw. I just finished a book by Charles Mann called 1493. The book just does a fabulous job of explaining the silver trade. There’s stuff in there that I never knew before. Like that silver mountain in bolivia not only supplied the currency for europe for 200 years but also for china.
the book details what Mann calls the columbian exchange which is about the exchange of everything from diseases to silver to silk to potatoes and people and more between the old world and the new world. Great bed time reading. I’m currently working on his other book 1491.
Will get those loaded into the Kindle. As long as they fit beside their 680 brothers and sisters in there. 8<)
Thanks, looks interesting!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1493:_Uncovering_the_New_World_Columbus_Created
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus