This is the second of several documents in the Document-Based Question (DBQ) from the 2006 AP World History exam. Tomas de Mercado was a Spanish scholar writing in 1571, a time when the establishment of the Spanish Empire was beginning to have dramatic effects on the economies of Spain, Europe, and the world. Mercado is attempting to explain these changes, which, as he points out, involve inflation. It is relevant to the question posed on the exam, which is as follows: "Analyze the social and economic effects of the global flow of silver from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century."
From this source, we can see that educated Spanish observers (for the sake of document...
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