No... corn or maize was already in America, the Columbian Exchange brought corn to the "Old World."
a tomato is a fruit and corn is a grain.
3.tomato - a tomato is a fruit.
When Christopher Columbus sailed and "discovered" America, he also discovered corn and brought it back to Europe.
The tomato is native to South America. They were small herbacious plants with small green fruit. When domesticated the fruit may have been yellow when grown by the Aztecs of Central America. The Aztec name was Tomatl. The Spanish explorer Cortes may have brought the tomato to Europe
Yes. This is one item brought to Europe during the "Columbian Exchange", along other items such as corn (maize), potatoes, turkeys or beans.
corn, stew, cornbread, tomato and beef.
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South America is the fourth largest continent. The seven valuable cash crops that are exported and are grown in south America are: corn, coca, coffee, sweet potato, tomato, brazil nuts, cashews and beans.
On the Mayflower, the pilgrims were running out of food on the way to America. They had brought corn from their crops to eat. Each day they were granted 5 kernels of corn per meal. Today we celebrate that they made it to the new world (America), and on thanksgiving, as a tradition we have 5 kernels of corn to celebrate.
New foods like corn were brought back to Europe.
The word "tomato" originated from the Nahuatl language spoken by the Aztecs in Mexico.