USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Llamas, alpacas, guinea pigs, turkeys, and ducks were among the animals indigenous to the New World that Christopher Columbus encountered on his second voyage there in 1493. On that trip he introduced from the Old World horses, pigs, cattle, sheep, and goats.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Columbian Exchange brought horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and a collection of other useful species to the Americas.

Detailed explanation-3: -Columbus’ second voyage was the starting point for the re-introduction, bringing Iberian horses to modern-day Mexico. Some of the Iberian horses escaped European control and became wild horses, relatives of the mustangs in the Western United States today.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the late 1400s, Spanish conquistadors brought European horses to North America, back to where they evolved long ago. At this time, North America was widely covered with open grasslands, serving as a great habitat for these horses. These horses quickly adapted to their former range and spread across the nation.

Detailed explanation-5: -1498 On his third voyage, Columbus was allowed to carry forty horsemen and their horses to the island of Hispaniola. 1500 In less than ten years from the initial voyage of Columbus, large horse breeding ranches had opened in the Indies.