HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Corn and sugar cane
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Peanuts and cotton
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Corn and peanuts
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Corn and molasses
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Detailed explanation-1: -Several New World crops, including capsicum peppers, cassava, maize, peanuts, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, were introduced into Africa following Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cassava, or manioc, another American food crop introduced to Africa in the 16th century as part of the Columbian Exchange, had impacts that in some cases reinforced those of corn and in other cases countered them. Cassava, originally from Brazil, has much that recommended it to African farmers.
Detailed explanation-3: -The exchange introduced a wide range of new calorically rich staple crops to the Old World-namely potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, and cassava.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.