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DBQ: Changing Chinese Traditions
DBQ There were many social and economic effects of the global flow of silver from the mid 16th century to the early 18th century. Examples of this include the social change of Chinese traditions and the economic change of Asian inflation of silver. The global flow of sliver effected Chinese traditions. Documents 1 and 3 state that socially, from a non-bias point of view, that sliver is changing Chinese traditions because now if you have no silver at all, you won't have enough in society, where as that was different before. Documents 4 and 7 state that since China already has many luxury goods that other places don't have, they are going to be very wealthy and get lots of sliver. Sliver has transformed Chinese traditions into greedy and

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