This document discusses the exchange of crops, livestock, and other products between Europe/Africa/Asia and the Americas beginning in the 15th century. Key crops that traveled from the Americas to Europe/Africa/Asia included corn, potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, chocolate, chili peppers, and peanuts. Major products that traveled from Europe/Africa/Asia to the Americas were sugarcane, coffee, bananas, chickens, horses, and staple crops such as wheat and rice. The exchange of these biological and agricultural products had significant social, economic, and dietary impacts on populations around the world.

1. FROM AMERICA
TO EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA

2. FROM AMERICA
TO EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA

3. FROM AMERICA
TO EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA

4. FROM EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA TO
AMERICA

5. FROM EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA TO
AMERICA

6. FROM EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA TO
AMERICA

7. FROM EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA TO
AMERICA
COFFEE AND BANANAS Farms employed thousands of workers in Central
and South America
CHICKEN Changed the diet of many people in Central and
South America
SUGARCANE Europeans obtained sugarcane from Asia and began
growing it in the Caribbean.
Europeans enslaved millions of Africans and moved
them to the Americas to plant and harvest the
sugarcane.
HORSES They changed the lives of native americans on the
great plains.
They provided a faster way to move from place to
place.
Native Americans began hunting buffalo as their
main food source
OTHER PRODUCTS: IRON, COOPER, WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY, RYE, RICE, PIGS, SHEEP,
CATTLE

8. FROM EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA TO
AMERICA
COFFEE AND BANANAS
CHICKEN
SUGARCANE
HORSES
OTHER PRODUCTS: IRON, COOPER, WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY, RYE, RICE, PIGS,
SHEEP, CATTLE

9. FROM AMERICA TO
EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA
CORN It was used to feed animals.
The early colonists would have starved without corn,
It became the major part of their diets.
POTATOES Europeans discovered that if they planted it instead
of grain, about four times as many people could live
of the same amount of land.
TOBACCO It became the chief crop in Virginia Colony.
Its farmers grew wealthy growing and selling
tobacco to European markets
TOMATOES It greatly changed cooking in Italy, where tomato
sauces became very popular
CHOCOLATE Popular food from Central America, by mixing it with
milk and sugar, Europeans created a sweet that is
still popular today.
CHILI PEPPERS AND PEANUTS They were taken to Europe , Asia and Àfrica where
they became Popular
OTHER PRODUCTS: SQUASH, BEANS, MAIZE, PUMPKIN, PEPPERS, PINEAPPLE AND COCOA

10. FROM AMERICA TO
EUROPE, AFRICA AND ASIA
CORN
POTATOES
TOBACCO
TOMATOES
CHOCOLATE
CHILI PEPPERS AND PEANUTS
OTHER PRODUCTS: SQUASH, BEANS, MAIZE, PUMPKIN, PEPPERS, PINEAPPLE AND COCOA