FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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tomatoes, corn, squash
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cocoa beans, lima beans, sweet peas
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nuts and wild berries
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magnolia trees, cypress trees, pine trees
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Detailed explanation-1: -Food historian Lois Ellen Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the “magic eight” ingredients that were found and used only in the Americas before 1492 and were taken via the Columbian Exchange back to the Old World, dramatically transforming the cuisine there.
Detailed explanation-2: -Grains and pseudograins. Various grains and pseudograins were domesticated in the New World, including maize (Zea mays), amaranth (Amaranthus spp.), wild rice (Zizania palustris L.), and quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa).
Detailed explanation-3: -Tomatoes The flavor-packed tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) of the New World began as wild blueberry-sized fruits in South America that were first domesticated in Mexico about 7, 000 years ago.
Detailed explanation-4: -Instead of finding gold in the New World, Columbus was one of the first Europeans to see maize (corn) (Morison, 1991). Maize was only found in the New World until Columbus introduced it into the Old World. Columbus brought maize to the Old World and significantly changed the lives of Europeans (Nunn & Qian, 2010).
Detailed explanation-5: -All squash, commonly referred to as “pumpkins”, “gourds” and “squashes” originated in the New World and are members of the genus Cucurbita.