In what ways did food items offer scope for long distance cultural exchange? Explain.

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"Food offer many examples of Iong distance cultural exchange." Justify this statement.

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In what ways did food items offer scope for long distance cultural exchange? Explain.

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answered Feb 3, 2018 by faiz (82,347 points) 6 6 11
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(i) Traders and travelers introduced new crops, to the lands they traveled.
(ii) it is believed that noodles traveled west from China to become spaghetti.
(iii) Arabs traders took pasta to 5th century Sicily, an island now in Italy.
(iv) Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize tomatoes, chilies, sweet potatoes and so on were not know, to our ancestors.

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