- Corn (maize)
- Potatoes
- Tomatoes
- Sweet potatoes
- Beans
- Squash
- Pumpkins
- Pineapples
- Avocados
- Peanuts
- Cotton
- Cocoa
From Europe to the Americas:
- Wheat
- Rice
- Barley
- Sugarcane
- Horses
- Cattle
- Pigs
- Goats
- Chickens
- Smallpox
- Measles
- Influenza
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The Inconfidência Mineira, a movement of revolt against the Portuguese crown, was the most important Brazilian political event of the 18th century. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe movement known as Inconfidência Mineira took place in the then Captaincy of Minas Gerais, in the 1780s. The so-called incon
On June 20, the deputies took the oath around Bailly in the Jeu de Paume room. Now reunited in the National Assembly, they decide not to leave the room before giving a constitution to France. This is the tennis oath. On July 14, Parisians besieged the Bastille prison. On August 4, the uprising of pe
Introduction The word chocolate can evoke images of sweet candies and juicy truffles, but todays chocolate is little like the chocolate of the past. For much of history, chocolate was a venerable but bitter drink, not a sweet, edible treat. But in about 90 percent of the chocolates long history