HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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Foods from the Americas contributed to population growth around the world.
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Foods from the Americas contributed to a rise in food prices around the world.
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Foods from Europe did not grow well in the Old World and famine resulted.
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Foods from the Americas became widely grown in Africa.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was an effect of the movement of foods like corn and potatoes from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere? Foods from the Americas contributed to population growth around the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -The spread of disease. Possibly the most dramatic, immediate impact of the Columbian Exchange was the spread of diseases. In places where the local population had no or little resistance, especially the Americas, the effect was horrific. Prior to contact, indigenous populations thrived across North and South America.
Detailed explanation-3: -There were many important food items that Europeans came to possess from the New World. Perhaps the two most important were the potato and tomato. The potato was a main staple of the great Incan civilization, and once exported to Europe, became the foundation of the diets of many Europeans, especially the Irish.
Detailed explanation-4: -New food and fiber crops were introduced to Eurasia and Africa, improving diets and fomenting trade there. In addition, the Columbian Exchange vastly expanded the scope of production of some popular drugs, bringing the pleasures-and consequences-of coffee, sugar, and tobacco use to many millions of people.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.