Bugün öğrendim ki: 1500 yılına kadar eski dünyada domates, patates, yaban mersini, yer fıstığı, mısır, fasulye, çikolata, vanilya veya tütün yoktu, çünkü bunlar Amerika'ya özgüydü. Bu, diğer birçok bitki, hayvan, mantar ve hastalığı da içeren Kolombiya Borsasının bir parçasıydı.

crops native to the New World and not found elsewhere before 1492 [![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/New_World_Domesticated_plants.JPG/220px- New_World_Domesticated_plants.JPG)](/wiki/ File:New_World_Domesticated_plants.JPG) Montage of New World Domesticated plants. Clockwise, starting from top left: 1. Maize ( _Zea mays_ ) 2. Tomato ( _Solanum lycopersicum_ ) 3. Potato ( _Solanum tuberosum_ ) 4. Vanilla ( _Vanilla planifolia_ ) 5. Pará rubber tree ( _Hevea brasiliensis_ ) 6. Cacaoma ( _ ) 7. Tobacco ( _Nicotiana rustica_ ) **New World crops** are those [crops](/wiki/Crop "Crop"), food and otherwise, that were native to the [New World](/wiki/New_World "New World") (mostly [the Americas](/wiki/The_Americas "The Americas")) before [1492 AD](/wiki/1492_AD "1492 AD") and not found anywhere else at that time. Many of these crops are now grown around the world and have often become an integral part of the cuisine of various cultures in the [Old World](/wiki/Old_world "Old world"). Notable among these crops are the [Three Sisters](/wiki/Three_Sisters_\(agriculture\) "Three Sisters \(agriculture\)"): [maize](/wiki/Maize "Maize"), [winter squash](/ wiki/Winter_squash "Winter squash"), and climbing beans.