USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This traveled west to east
A
Tobacco and corn
B
Christianity
C
Horses
D
Smallpox
Explanation: 

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: -Answer and Explanation: Christopher Columbus or Hernán Cortés may have introduced cacao to Europe when they returned from the Americas between the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Cacao beans originated in Central and South America where several civilizations used them for rituals, medicines, and currency.

Detailed explanation-3: -Columbus Day: Christopher Columbus discovered the potato, tomato, tobacco and other New World crops-The Washington Post.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is named after the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and is related to the European colonization and global trade following his 1492 voyage. Some of the exchanges were purposeful; some were accidental or unintended.

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