USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

FIRST THANKSGIVING HISTORY FACTS FOODS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Before Europeans arrived in the 1400s, people in the Americas had no ____
A
Farm animals
B
homes
C
food
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Columbian Exchange brought horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and a collection of other useful species to the Americas. Before Columbus, Native American societies in the high Andes had domesticated llamas and alpacas, but no other animals weighing more than 45 kg (100 lbs).

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer #59: American Indians; Native Americans. The Native American Indians were the first people to live in the territory that currently makes up the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tropical fruits enhanced the native diet, such as pineapple, avocado, guava, and papaya. Most of these foods were new and unfamiliar to Columbus and his crew. In Hispaniola, the first settlement in the New World, the native foods of the Taino tribe became an important source of sustenance to the European colonizers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, large dogs, cats, and bees were rapidly adopted by native peoples for transport, food, and other uses. One of the first European exports to the Americas, the horse, changed the lives of many Native American tribes.

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