Global History of Food Review

(a)   was one of the most important foods that the Americas exported to the rest of the world during the Columbian Exchange.

Answer explanation

Corn provided a new, calorie-dense, and versatile food.

When the Spanish conquered the Aztec and Incan civilizations in the Americas, what items were the Spaniards deeply interested in exporting back to Europe?

• Magnesium & Mulberries

• Copper & Cassava

• Silver & Spices

• Sugar, Spice & Everything Nice

True or False: Coffee was an indigenous American crop sampled by European explorers and conquerors in the Americas during the 1500s.

• True

• False

Which of the following did NOT have a significant influence on Ottoman Cuisine during its centuries of existence?

• Mediterranean farmers & fishermen

• Siberian communities in N/E Asia

• Central Asian Turkish nomads

True or False: Ottoman sultans always made food supply a policy priority because they did not want the population rioting over shortages and they needed peaceful taxpayers.

• True

• False

The best historical record of what was eaten at the Ottoman sultan's palace in Instanbul are the (a)   .

Which of the following colonial destinations in the Americas saw the greatest number of imported African slave workers in the 1500s and 1600s?

• Portuguese Brazil

• The Caribbean Islands

• North American Mainland

• Tokyo

True or false: Enslaved Indigenous Americans organized mass uprisings and declared their political independence from Spain which made it difficult for the Spanish to maintain reliable supply from slave-based sugar plantations in the early 1500s.

• True

• False

Why were the Dutch able to obtain a monopoly over the spice trade in the early 1600s?

• They bribed local producers to obtain trade contracts and issued trade passes for guest merchants

• They allied with Islamic caravan traders to protect all routes from bandits and pirates

• They unified all Dutch spice traders and used a private military to fight any rivals

(a)   had a strong impact on population growth in China as a result of the Columbian Exchange.