Eventually, over time, they hit a revenue shortfall. American silver helped pay for military, buildings and helped China expand. It also grew over time and became a source of imperial wealth and power. With this being said how the Chinese did this was they would Trade silk for silver and this how the money industry changed. It’s “silverization” mean that tens of millions of Chinese suddenly needed chunks of silver for such basic tasks as paying taxes or running a business” (Mann 1493, 178). The thing that struck my attention in the ecological perspective was how money was such a big deal. Mann explains further in his readings on how the diseases spread from place to place wiping out nearly three-quarters of the people in the hemisphere. by a quirk of evolutionary history, all were unknown in the Western Hemisphere” (Mann, 1493, pg 14). The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and vials pneumonia. For example, Mann mentions a lot about the incursion of new diseases and how they spread throughout all of America.

The way Mann describes certain things changed how people see not only the world but America in general some good and some bad. Mann is very descriptive with his details that it paints a clear and better image for those who read his writing. It personally places an image in the reader’s mind of what he describes during the time periods he mentions.

It helps better the picture and broadens his discussion. The biological and ecological perspective that Charles Mann examines throughout his 1493 novel, helps readers to really come in contact with what he is writing. Mann broadens readers perspective by mentioning cultural, biological and political aspects of the Old world in addition to the New World. 1493 is a very persuasive novel because it mentions the remarkable historical finding of America. Mann’s novel, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a novel that goes in depth about how Columbus contributed to establishing the New World.

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