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America, for a time, had a wealth of food and minerals. After Christopher Columbus unintentionally found this continent, common goods like potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, soy, maize, groundnuts, etc., travelled from America to Europe and, subsequently, Asia. The new potato crops significantly improved the lives of the underprivileged in Europe, allowing them to eat better and live longer. The poorest peasants in Ireland were so dependent that hundreds perished from starvation when a disease decimated the potato crop in the middle of the 1840s. Noodles, for instance, have travelled from China to Europe. India and Southeast Asia received Chinese textile and ceramic exports. The Silk Road transported precious metals like gold and silver from Europe to Asia.

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