Which crops travelled east to Europe, Africa, and Asia?

• Wheat, coffee, and sugar
• Cotton, rubber, and cocoa
• Maize, potatoes, and tomatoes

Which crops travelled west to the Americas?

• Wheat, coffee, and sugar
• Maize, potatoes, and tomatoes
• Rice, tea, and silk

Potatoes from the Andes became a staple feeding many in Europe.

Sugar plantations reshape a Caribbean island using enslaved labour. What fed that labour system?

• A surplus of willing local workers
• Machines doing all the harvest
• Collapsed Native populations plus brutal plantation work

Why did smallpox and measles kill far more in the Americas than in Europe?

• European doctors cured every case
• American peoples had no past exposure or resistance
• The germs disliked European weather

Where did maize and potatoes become staples?

• Only on one island
• Across Europe and Asia
• Nowhere outside the Andes

Potatoes feed millions in Europe while sugar demands slave labour in the Caribbean. What does the pair show?

• Crops never change societies
• One exchange held gain for some and catastrophe for others
• Sugar grew itself without workers

A museum label calls the exchange a fair trade. What is missing from that verdict?

• The names of three ships
• The colour of potato flowers
• Death and enslavement paid mostly by Native peoples