During this time era, there was a high demand for silver, and the Spaniards came upon a mountain called “Cerro de Potosi.” “In 1545, Spanish prospectors discovered the richest deposit of silver in history at Potosi, and within a few decades this single mountain was producing over half of the silver mined in the world each year” (Strayer, p. 512). The Spaniards collected numbers of silver, and surprisingly, it made a massive increase over the centuries. “New people arrive by the hour, attracted by the smell of silver,” commented a Spanish observer in the 1570s” (Strayer, p. 512). The news went out everywhere about the Potosi mountain and it interest the public how much silver was found in an isolated area. However, mining the Potosi, there
