Chapter 24: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania

English disdainful of interracial marriages . Cultural borrowing: plants, crops, deerskin clothes. Mining and agriculture in the Spanish empire . Silver more plentiful than gold, the basis of Spanish New World wealth . Conquistadores melted Aztec and Inca gold artifacts into ingots . Two major sites of silver mining: Zacatecas (Mexico) and ... ................
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