HIS 108 Chapter 2: Chapter Two

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 108
• Professor: Jane Calvert

Document Summary

~ chapter two: europeans and africans reach the. 2. 1 breaching the atlantic: columbus would ultimately take four voyages to the americas between 1492 and 1504 while the. Americas, but by 1550, the taino people no longer existed as a distinct culture. In the caribbean, they imported african slaves to work on the plantations: over the course of the 16th century, about a quarter of a million spaniards, mainly young men, came to the americas. Silver was somewhat plentiful by 1660 which caused a price revolution. : price revolution: the inflationary effect on the european economy during the 1500s that resulted from the enormous influx of silver from spanish. It stimulated commercial development, but also redistributed wealth and increased the number of europeans living in poverty. It brought a major redistribution of wealth and increased the number of people in western europe living at the margins of society: spain"s northern frontier.