Trade: There were many foods that were traded these included things like (Aztecs traded) potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, chilies, peanuts, vanilla, avocados, cacao beans and many others the Europe Africa and asia gave things like things like livestock e.g cattle sheep horses and pigs. citrus fruits, olives, grains wheat rice baley and oats. honey bees, grapes, onion sugar canes and a whole lot of diseases like smallpox and typhus, mealses, malaria, whooping cough and the flu (influenza).