Answer: Christopher Columbus introduced horses, sugar plants, and disease to the New World, while facilitating the introduction of New World commodities like sugar, tobacco, chocolate, and potatoes to the Old World. The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic is known as the Columbian Exchange.
IMPORTS: Chocolate, Marigolds, Pineapples, Coffee, Pigs, Oranges, Cows and more
EXPORTS: Avocados, Beans, Bell peppers, Black-eyed Susans , Cacao (for chocolate), Chili peppers, Corn, Cotton