Monday, March 18, 2019

Crash Coure: The Columbian Exchange

There was no pizza in Italy before Christopher Columbus because the Old World didn't have tomatoes until they were brought over from the Americas (along with chili peppers, corn, beans, potatoes, avocadoes, and blueberries).

Polio and other old world diseases killed millions of native Americans, but the native Americans gave Europeans tobacco. 

More American WW2 veterans who started smoking as a result of going off to war, died from smoking than died in the war.

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