Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follows:
Source - 1: Food Travels: Spaghetti and Potato: Food offers many examples of long-distance
cultural exchange. Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even 'ready' foodstuff in distant parts of the world might share common origins. Take spaghetti and noodles. It is believed that noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti.
Source - 2: Conquest, Disease and Trade: Before its 'discovery'. America had been cut off from regular contact with the rest of the world for millions of years. But from the sixteenth century, its vast lands and abundant crops and minerals began to transform trade and lives everywhere.
Source - 3: Indentured Labour Migration from India: In the nineteenth century, hundreds of
thousands of Indian and Chinese laboureres went to work on plantations, in mines, and in road and railway construction projects around the world. In India, indentured laboureres were hired under contracts which promised return travel to India after they had worked five years on their employer's plantation.
29.1. SOURCE 1: Evaluate how did Food travelled from the different areas.
29.2. SOURCE 2: To what extent do you agree that Conquest, Disease and Trade affected the life of
African People
29.3. SOURCE 3: To what extent do you agree that Labour migrated from India were coerced by the agents.
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Source 1- . Take spaghetti and noodles. It is believed that noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti or perhaps, Arab traders took pasta to fifth-century Sicily.
. Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes, etc., were not known to our ancestors but these foods were introduced in Asia and Europe after Christopher Columbus discovered America.
. (Sometimes, the new crops could make the difference between life and death. Europe’s poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble potato.
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