GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -John Cabot (c. Cabot’s expedition was the first European exploration of coastal North America since the 11th century, making him the first early modern European to “discover” North America. It is not known if he died in a storm during his final voyage in 1498, or if he returned safely to London and died shortly after.

Detailed explanation-3: -We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first. Five hundred years before Columbus, a daring band of Vikings led by Leif Eriksson set foot in North America and established a settlement.