FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Question
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Squash
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Potatoes and Corn
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Chocolate and Butter
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Peanuts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Native to Peru, the potato provided Western and Northern Europe with a new source of calories, feeding European people and the armies that extended European empires into Africa and Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are indeed a number of highly important crops grown in the Americas that were introduced by European settlers. These include oranges and other citrus fruits, bananas, apples, almonds, onions, wheat and rice.
Detailed explanation-3: -Europeans brought cash crops to the Americas: sugar, rice, wheat, coffee, bananas, & grapes. New crops flourished in the Americas.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Spanish discovered that wheat, Europe’s basic food crop, did poorly in tropical America where they first established colonies. Maize (corn), potatoes, beans, and other New World crops, however, eventually flourished in Europe and spread to the rest of the Old World.