ECONOMICS
TRADE EXCHANGE AND INTERDEPENDENCE
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major diseases
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horses
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potatoes and corn
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slaves
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Detailed explanation-1: -The exchange introduced a wide range of new calorically rich staple crops to the Old World-namely potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, and cassava. The primary benefit of the New World staples was that they could be grown in Old World climates that were unsuitable for the cultivation of Old World staples.
Detailed explanation-2: -Christopher Columbus introduced horses, sugar plants, and disease to the New World, while facilitating the introduction of New World commodities like sugar, tobacco, chocolate, and potatoes to the Old World. The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic is known as the Columbian Exchange.
Detailed explanation-3: -The humble potato was domesticated in the South American Andes some 8, 000 years ago and was only brought to Europe in the mid-1500s, from where it spread west and northwards, back to the Americas, and beyond.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main ones, aside from llamas and alpacas, were dogs, turkeys, and guinea pigs. The introduction of horses made hunting buffalo much easier for the Plains Indians.
Detailed explanation-5: -Corn (or maize) is a New World crop, which was unknown in the Old World before Columbus’s voyage in 1492.