ECONOMICS
TRADE EXCHANGE AND INTERDEPENDENCE
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Because they had never seen them before
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Because they looked weird
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Because they didn’t taste like the food they were used to
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Because the names of the items sounded odd
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Detailed explanation-1: -They brought European crops such as barley and rye. They brought wheat, which was originally from the Middle East . They brought plants that had originally come from Asia, including sugar, bananas, yams, citrus fruit, coffee, rice, and sugarcane. New plants created new economies in the Americas .
Detailed explanation-2: -Europeans introduced such domestic animals as cattle, pigs, chickens, goats, and sheep to North America, with the intent of using the animal meat for food, and hides or wool for clothing. They also inadvertently brought pest animals and plants, such as rats and assorted weeds.
Detailed explanation-3: -These two-way exchanges between the Americas and Europe/Africa are known collectively as the Columbian Exchange. Of all the commodities in the Atlantic World, sugar proved to be the most important.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. Crosby (2003, p.