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Help pls!! What Spanish colony became the link between the flow of silver between the western and eastern hemispheres?

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The two most important mining colonies of the Spanish Empire were Peru and Mexico, who were estimated to have provided one-hundred thousand tons of silver from the mid 16th Century to the end of the colonial period in 1824.
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