With gold and silver flowing from Peru and Mexico, the harbor's strategic location near the major routes into the Caribbean made San Juan more important than ever and more forts were built there — La Fortaleza, San Cristóbal and several smaller structures that are now gone.
However, Akira Motomura, an economist at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, who studies the economics of silver flow during this time period, questions whether the sample of coins DeSaulty studied is large enough to support her conclusions.
For much of the 16th through the early 19th centuries, a river of silver flowed from Europe and the Americas to China where it was exchanged for Chinese goods.
In the 1800s, opium brought into China by foreign smugglers led to a national crisis: Millions of Chinese became addicted, mass stores of silver flowed abroad, and China suffered defeats at the hands of British troops protecting the opium smugglers.
Cyrus then executed the show's second segment with a performance of "Bottom of the Ocean", which featured an aquatic theme for the stage and Cyrus donning a silver, flowing evening gown that bared a bejeweled bodysuit underneath.
Pointedly underdressed in a black T-shirt, Mr. Rosen was gyrating on the dance floor to Kool and the Gang, silver hair flowing, fist in the air.
Silver pipes flowing with chocolate are everywhere.
Silver Ale flowed freer than the river of blood that was spilled earlier on.
Several years later silver began flowing into the region, from Japan, Mexico, and Europe, and trade flourished once again.
To initiate current flow, silver atoms will have to migrate to close the gap.
Sometimes the river flows silver and blue, sometimes oily green.
