Potosí - 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida

Question

Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez argue that, along with silver mined in Japan, the silver mined at this city generated the “birth of global trade” in a namesake economic cycle. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this Bolivian city whose Cerro Rico mine produced 80 percent of the world’s silver between the 16th and 18th centuries.

ANSWER: Potosí [or Villa Imperial de Potosí; accept Potosí/Japan cycle]

[10e] New World silver was traded to Asian markets from Acapulco on “galleons” named for this capital city of the Philippines.

ANSWER: Manila [or City of Manila or Maynila; accept Manila galleons]

[10h] The influx of precious metals from Spanish treasure fleets into European markets is thought to have caused this 16th- and 17th-century period of widespread inflation across Western Europe.

ANSWER: Price Revolution

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	N	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	N	7	21.43	100%	86%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	N	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	N	7	22.86	100%	100%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	N	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	N	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	N	10	19.00	100%	60%	30%

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