Why was silver important to traders in the seventeenth and eighteenth
century?
Choose 1 answer:
B
It was heavier than other goods, like wool and silk, so it required
the invention of new, larger ships to move it.
It was the one trade item that Europeans could use to trade with
China
.
Because it was primarily mined in the Americas, indigenous people
were
able to leverage it with European colonists.
It was the only European "luxury" good that could compete with
the
elegant silk and porcelain being exported from China.