HORTICULTURE

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: -Maize (American Corn) is possibly the most important of all the New World crops involved in the Columbian Exchange. Maize originated in America, but because of it’s adaptable nature, it was able to be transported to Europe and successfully cultivated in various regions.