Stable crops: potatoes, tomatoes, corn, maize, sweet potatoes, cassava, chili peppers, capsicum peppers, cacao, coca, peanuts, vanilla, and pineapples among other things are brought to Europe, Africa and Asia
Corn was good for many causes, it gave even two or three harvests a year, it could be fed to the pigs and it could be grown in places that were unsuitable for tubers and grains
Cassava being very low maintenance also helped Africans escape from slave traders, because they could leave their fields and hide and return to a crop that was still ok
There is also a profound culinary impact, as chili and tomatoes, for example, change many food traditions
Stable and nutritious crops, such as corn and potatoes, are revolutionary and change the Old world
This is revolutionary in the sense that these crops are more calorically intense->people can be fed easier, as wheat isn't as nutritious
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People having easier access to great amounts of food resulted in population growth in Europe and Africa
Population growth was creating concerns and danger of overpopulation --> They sent more people to the new world
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Urbanization also becomes possible as a result, because people can be fed, even in big cities and not everyone has to be dependent on their own crop
Also, for example quinine, is discovered which is the first known treatment for malaria