FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Europeans brought wheat, sugar, and sheep to the Americas and took corn, potatoes, and turkeys to Europe.
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Europeans brought coffee, corn, and potatoes to the Americas and took rice, wheat, and oranges to Europe.
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Europeans brought tomatoes, potatoes, and wheat to the Americas and took horses beans and rice to Europe.
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Europeans brought the 3 sisters, pumpkins and avocados to the Americas and took bananas, grapes, and rice to Europe.
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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: -The Americas’ farmers’ gifts to other continents included staples such as corn (maize), potatoes, cassava, and sweet potatoes, together with secondary food crops such as tomatoes, peanuts, pumpkins, squashes, pineapples, and chili peppers.
Detailed explanation-3: -5. American plants have fascinated Europeans since 1492 as sources of food (maize and potatoes), medicine (cinchona and guaiacum), and profit (timber, tobacco, and cacao).
Detailed explanation-4: -Livestock came from Europe, including horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and chickens. Over time, new crops were introduced to the Americas, including wheat, rice, barley, oats, coffee, sugar cane, citrus fruits, melons and Kentucky bluegrass. The introduction of wheat was of particular significance.