With the incalculable amount of goods exchanged, there is no other event in history to compare it to. The Colombian Stock Exchange is unparalleled in the sense of impact it has had on the entire globe. The number of all grains like wheat and barley, crops like cotton and sugar, vegetables like beets and broccoli, weeds, fruits and luxury goods was insane and even the amount of money going back and forth was only significant with plants. Now if you include all the animals involved, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens and turkeys, the profit increases even more. On another topic, the quantity of precious metals tripled in Europe between the years 1500 and 1650. Zacatecas, the viceroyalty of New Spain, and Potosi, the viceroyalty of Peru, were the places from which a significant amount of silver and the New Granada, Viceroyalty of Granada, was where most of the gold came from. The Americas settled 181 tons of gold and 16,000 tons of silver. That said, between 1600 and 1650, sugar production, along with cotton, indigo, and rice, accounted for 90-95% of the economy. The impact the Colombian Stock Exchange had on the economy was something the world will never see
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