What new food items were transmitted from South America to the rest of the world?

NCERT - Themes in World History

Book: NCERT - Themes in World History

Chapter: 8. Confrontation of Cultures

Subject: Social Science - Class 11^th

Q. No. 4 of Exercises

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What new food items were transmitted from South America to the rest of the world?

The new food items transmitted from South America to the rest of the world were:

1. Potatoes

2. Cane sugar

3. Cacao

4. Chillies

5. Rubber

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1

Compare the civilisation of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.

2

What were the new developments helping European navigation in the fifteenth century?

3

Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the fifteenth century to venture across the Atlantic.

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What new food items were transmitted from South America to the rest of the world?

5

Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to Brazil as a slave.

6

How did the ‘discovery’ of South America lead to the development of European colonialism?