Many people love chocolate, they go to the store and it's easy for them to just buy a chocolate bar. Brands like Hershey, M&M, and KitKat rely on cocoa farms to provide them cocoa, the main ingredient for chocolate. But many don't stop to think about where the chocolate they love came from and the process it goes through. Chocolate originally started as a drink. The ancient Aztecs of Mexico would brew cocoa beans to make a chocolaty delicious drink, but chocolate as we know today didn't start till the early 1800's.
The Colombian Exchange and the Atlantic Slave Trade have left a foot print on the economies of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. Through trade, the Colombian Exchange helped connect the Old World and the New World. The European and African side of the Atlantic traded horses, pigs, goats, chili peppers, silver, and sugar cane. In return America traded squash, beans, corn, potatoes, cacao, cassava, and peanuts. This trade resulted in a population increase due to the surplus of food.
After Columbus “discovered” the Americas, the Colombian exchange began. In this trading system, Afro-Eurasia would trade items from the Americas with their commodities. Many Europeans would go to the Americas to make money or spread their religion. One empire was the Spanish empire. They looked for valuable minerals and found silver mines in Mexico and Peru, prompting the silver trade.
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Although we mainly speak of spices when we talk about the Colombian Exchange or Christopher Columbus’s journey, we never mention the plants and crops that were also spread all across the trading route. There was never and coffee in Columbia, or oranges in Florida, or maize in many Latin American countries. Once trade began, these crops quickly spread all across the continent and flourished in some environments and quickly died out in other environments due to its climate. This helped both the new settlers and the natives, as it benefited both parties adapt also. Although the new settlers and the traders were the ones who brought the crops to the New World, such like maize, coffee, beans, avocadoes, and peanuts.
Plants such as beans, squash, chili peppers, sunflowers, peanuts, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, avocado, and pineapple were exchanged, but the most important were sugarcane, maize, and potatoes. Sugarcane was introduced on Columbus second voyage to the America’s and was one of the largest cash crops in history. It still is one of the largest today too. Maize was a New World crop that was essential to the European diet and supported economies and sustained the population growth.
The Columbian Exchange was exchange of crops, animals and diseases from the Old World to the New World. The exchange seems mutually beneficial, with the Old World getting new crops such as tobacco, and the New World getting the basic cereal crops which the Old World survived on for centuries and livestock such as horses and cattle, but along with all the valuable crops and animals also came disease. The main reason why the Columbian Exchange came to be was the explorer, Christopher Columbus, discovered the Americas when searching for India, and other Europeans subsequently followed his path to the New World. Columbus was looking for India and the Spice Islands, which had, hence it name, many spices that could be sold for a huge profit back
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The Columbian Exchange was a momentous change to the entire world. One of the greatest blunders in the history turned into one of the most radical transformation of a cultural atmosphere. The collision of two completely different world created a large infusion of cultures through the exploitation of goods and values from the “New World” to the “Old World”. During this time, the Europeans tasted, in a literal sense, what the “New World” had to offer and were exalted by the abundance of highly sought products all within their grasp. Items ,such as sugar, became one of the first reason for the exploitation of the Americas, as Europeans, astonished by the exotic plants and futility of the “New World” land began to make their first moves.
The Columbian exchange was a sort of bridge between two very different cultures and, as Alfred W. Crosby said, it was very hard to find any crops that the two civilizations (the Old World and the New World, so to speak) shared. Horses, wheat, pigs, sugar cane, rice, and grape vines -- along with many other things -- could only be found in the Old World. Likewise, corn, sweet potatoes, alpaca, peanuts, and tobacco were all from the New World. Some of these things, wheat, rice, and corn in particular, are staples nowadays and we would be in trouble if something happened to one of those things. As Crosby said, “[Wheat] is one of Europe’s greatest gifts to the Americas”.
Millions of years ago, the Earth was divided into two the Old and New Worlds. This lasted for quite some time, so long that different evolutions began. For example, on one side of the Atlantic rattlesnakes developed, but on the other, vipers grew. The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of non-native plants, animals, and diseases brought to the Americas from Europe and vice versa. This all happened after 1492.
The earliest known known use of chocolate was from the Olmec around 1900 BCE. Chocolate was desired the most in Mesoamerica and was drinking by the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations. The Olmec’s enjoyed it as a drink and it was consumed in a special jar they called tecomates. Maya used a tall cylinder beaker for drinking chocolate and the Aztecs used decorated tall cups for their chocolate drinks. The cups they used for drinking it were designed to impress other people in the society and showed them that the drinkers had status to enjoy such a special drink.
This would later become a very important part of the New World's future and way of life. The Columbian Exchange is named after the explorer Christopher Columbus, who was supposedly the “first person” in the New World. He was an Italian sailing for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Though he was the “idea” behind it he wasn't the only one who wanted to participate in the exchange. With that many new things came into the New World and many things came out of the New World.
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This does give chocolate some properties that are bodily healthy for us. Chocolate eaters are encouraged to eat more given the information of flavonoids, a healthy natural chemical and antioxidant. “Flavonoids help protect plants from environmental toxins and help repair damage. They can be found in a variety of foods such as fruits and vegetables. When we eat food rich in flavonoids, it appears we also benefit from this antioxidant power.”
