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Foods like potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, and maize reached Asia and Europe primarily AFTER:
AMarco Polo's travels to China around 1271
BColumbus reaching the Americas in 1492
CVasco da Gama landing in Calicut in 1498
DBritish colonisation of India in mid-1700s
Answer & Solution
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.
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