The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although the map is not attached to this question and we can not do the matches, we indeed can say the following.
The oldest civilization known to man was the Sumerian civilization that settled in the middle of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Middle east, what today is Iraq. They developed agriculture techniques that allowed them to use the flooding of the rivers to grow crops such as wheat.
Then in 5,000 BC, people in China grew rice, an important crop that was exported. At the same time, but in Mesoamerica, important civilizations such as the Aztecs in Tenochtitlan(modern.day México) were experts growing corn. In 4,000 BC, people from the region of the Mediterranean (modern-day Italy) started to grow olives. At the same time, but in the South America Andean region of Peru, the Incas started to grow potatoes.
Tea was dumped into the boston harbor, otherwise known as the boston tea party. He and his companions dumped tea.
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The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, named after Christopher Columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.The impact was most severe in the Caribbean, where by 1600 Native American populations on most islands had plummeted by more than 99 percent. Across the Americas, populations fell by 50 percent to 95 percent by 1650. The disease component of the Columbian Exchange was decidedly one-sided.
