Question

Food offer many eg. of long distance cultural exchange .Explain ​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Traders and travelers introduced new crop to the lands they traveled.

It is believed that noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti.

Arabs traders took pasta to 5th century Sicily, an island now in Italy.

Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes,chillies, sweet potatoes and so on were not known to our ancestors. These foods were only introduced in Europe and Asia after Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered America. In fact many of our common foods came from America's original inhabitants -the American Indians.