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= Food castilians took to Europe from America = toc

After Columbus reached America, various cultures, like African, European and Asian cultures began to use and consume a large amount of products developed by the American cultures, such as corn, cassava, cotton, peanuts, chili pepper, pineapple, sweet potatoes, tobacco, vanilla, tomato, potato, cocoa, chocolate, the cautchuc, the avocado.

 

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Europans brought grapes, peaches and apples to eat, but none of these fruits would have been successful without bringing the european honey bee. The Spanish brought the stinging european honey bee in the 1500's to produce honey in the colonies. English brought an experimental boat after the pilgrims in the 1620's with silk worms including honey bees. Mayans had already been cultivating a stingless, native variety of bees especially along the yucatan, although these bees produced less quantity of honey, and this traditional practice is all but forgotten until very recently when Mexicans of Mayan descent started using the more aggressive European-African hybrid that migrated from Brazil after a crossbreeding experiment escaped years ago. This new hybrid can produce up to 120 gallons a year per colony, while native species' colonies produced only up to 4-5 gallons per year. It was not known to early colonists until the late 18th century the affect of bee pollenation on the local environment.



Animals
As previously stated, european honey bees were brought for honey. As a result, apples and peaches became prosperous crops while certain native species were crowded out. Horse Cattle and Pigs were domesticated livestock brought by Europeans to Americas that devistated unfenced Amerindian cornfields. Worse, the pigs grubbed out native plants that American Indians ate as alternative to corn when supplies were low. Nightcrawlers, or large worms were brought by Europeans in the dropped Ballasts of ships carrying tobbacco back from Jamestown. Dirt used to balance ships at sea had to be dropped for heavy cargo, and with this English dirt came nightcrawlers that ate up the deciduous forest floors that were previously covered in leaves.



These leaves gave nutrients to native underbrush American Indians used for foraging. Native peoples often cleared out forest floors with controled burning techniques and managed to spread berry bushes and trees they could cultivate for food, by which new foliage would mulch and provide nutrients. The introduction of nightcrawlers spreading up and down river banks could finish off these nutritious leaves in a few days.

Seeds
Some seeds were brought by African Americans for food such as the watermelon, which along with the european honey bee began to spread naturally along the American landscape. In return, Americas provided the world with potatoes, chocolate (cocoa), corn, green beans, squash, raspberries, blueberies, strawberries, pinapples, mangoes and vanilla. Coincidence or consequence, the world population began to grow like never before after the 1700's.



To cross the history of the food that we consume every day can seem to be boring. But to discover that good part of they are of Latin-American origin produces a luck of pride. The Latin-American agriculture was and it is still though in minor measure - of a great biodiversity. Only to level of the fruits, some botanical inventories speak today about at least 1.100 original fruits of America. The following ones are only some of the most known plants. Maize: Even much does not do one believed that the maize was of Mexican origin. Nevertheless some recent investigations that more antíguos found remains of maize in the Bushes Brazilian Grosso (north limit of Argentina) and in Bolivia, have made think that his origin might be placed in these lands.

Other fruits
**Potato**: Apparently it eats it has his origin in the Peruvian Mountain chain of The Andes, especially in the basin of the lake Titicaca. It is a tuber that spread rapidly to tavés of the same indigenous peoples. The archeologists say that his origin goes back to almost 13.000 years behind.

The origin of the tomato also is in discussion. The name surely derives from the word nahuatl "tomatl" and because of it there is thought that the plant was original of Mexico. Nevertheless some of them believe that his origin is in the low part of The Andes, from Colombia to Chile. The conquerors did not incorporate it into his diet immediately because they considered her to be poisonous. Only after a lot of time they incorporated it into his kitchen. It has a form and consistency similar to her eats but is sweet and of yellowish or orange flesh. His origin is probably in Central America, Peru and Mexico. A curiosity: according to the FAO (United Nations Organization for the Agriculture and the Supply) in 2005 China was the principal world producer of sweet-potato.
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