Talk:Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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Article Issues

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Additional Citations

This article needs both more citations and for citations already within the article to be more specifically attributed.
A particularly eggregious section is the Opium wars. Citations for some of the information discussed can be found in the Dennis article but this article could benefit from a diversification of sources.

Article Structure

The article appears to have been structured around an initial essay arguing for the importance of the silver trade during this time.
The relevance of the "First paper money" section to this article is questionable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4civil (talkcontribs) 18:01, 8 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Article Issues

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I've been editing this article for a couple days now and I think I've taken care of all the "issues" posted at the top of the article. However, I don't want to prematurely remove the notice at the top, so it'd be great if someone could review it. Thanks, Lawrence Scafuri (talk) 19:00, 27 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Dutch and British

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with 30% of it eventually ending up in China (largely because of Dutch and British merchants who used it to purchase exotic Chinese commodities)

I doubt that, Wasn't it the Spanish and Portuguese? The Dutch and British came later and had less access to silver sources. --Error (talk) 20:35, 1 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: China Encounters the World

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  This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 31 January 2023 and 10 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Pingchuan Ma, Charlotte2116, Hanyu(Lucy)Zhang, Zachary Libret (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Shuang Wen (talk) 06:41, 1 March 2023 (UTC)Reply