My name is Jacob. I am a Junior and history major from Illinois. I am most interested in learning about the silver trade in Latin America, as well as how silver functioned as a resource for the native populations in comparison with the Europeans.

This topic mainly interests me as my general area of interest is East Asia, and during the late 18th and 19th centuries, silver trade was a major part of commerce in that part of the world, and I am curious as to how the colonization of Latin America contributed to that.