--- title: Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Before 1492 Italy had no tomatoes, Ireland had no potatoes and nobody in Europe had tasted chocolate or chilli. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Food from around the world: how crops… # Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe Lesson 289 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/1/) — Before 1492 Italy had no tomatoes, Ireland had no potatoes and nobody in Europe had tasted chocolate or chilli. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/2/) — After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both ways, and this swap is called the Columbian exchange. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/3/) — It was not all good news: with the ships came diseases that killed huge numbers of the people already living in the Americas. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/4/) — Food tells history. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/5/) — Spices were once so precious that wars were fought over tiny islands, a boy's clever trick made vanilla cheap, and honey from ancient tombs could still be eaten today. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/6/) — Potatoes, tomatoes, maize, chocolate and chilli came from the Americas; wheat came from the Middle East, rice from Asia and coffee from Ethiopia. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/7/) — After Columbus, horses, cows and wheat went to the Americas, and potatoes and maize went to Europe and Africa; diseases crossed too and killed many people in the Americas. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/8/) — Oranges came from Asia and spread along trade routes; in English the colour orange was named after the fruit. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/10/) — In the Andes people made chuño, potatoes freeze-dried by night frost and day sun, which are light to carry and can last for years; Peru has thousands of kinds of potato. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/11/) — Sushi uses rice with vinegar and fish or vegetables; raw fish is safe only when fresh and handled carefully, sometimes frozen first to kill parasites; the oldest sushi was fish kept in fermenting rice. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/12/) — Olives are bitter on the tree and must be soaked or cured before eating, and some olive trees are over a thousand years old. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/13/) — The kiwi fruit came from China, where it was called the Chinese gooseberry; New Zealand farmers renamed it after their bird, and it has more vitamin C than an orange. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/14/) — Pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves came from Asia and far islands; sailors risked their lives for them, and wars were fought over tiny nutmeg islands. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/15/) — Honey can last thousands of years because it has very little water and is a bit acidic, so germs cannot grow; it should not be given to babies under one year. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/16/) — Food is cultural: frog legs in France, snails, horse meat in some countries and guinea pig in Peru, and other people may find our food odd too. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/17/) — Farmers breed giant pumpkins of over 1,000 kilograms, and the record is over 1,200 kilograms. - ← previous: [Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/) - next →: [Insects as food in other countries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)