Foods like potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, and maize reached Asia and Europe primarily AFTER:
- Marco Polo's travels to China around 1271
- Columbus reaching the Americas in 1492
- Vasco da Gama landing in Calicut in 1498
- British colonisation of India in mid-1700s
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Correct answer: B. Columbus reaching the Americas in 1492
These 'New World' foods (potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, maize, sweet potatoes, soybeans, groundnuts) were native to the Americas.
They reached Asia and Europe only after Columbus's voyages from 1492 onwards.