This agricultural product, which has its hearth in South America, diffused to the New World during the Columbian Exchange. What sector of economic activity is the extraction of these root crops from the ground?

What invention helped Latin American producers increase food exports by allowing them to ship goods more efficiently?

What region experienced the greatest increase in per capita net production in Agriculture?1 pointAsiaAmericasAfricasEuropeOceania

Von Thünen's model can best be used to explain the location of which of the following types of agriculture?Group of answer choicesranching in the dry lands of North AfricaMediterranean agriculture in central Chileshifting cultivation in the tropics of South Americadairying in the northeast United Statesintensive subsistence in South China

Which region of North America had the most productive agricultural soils, producing cash crops such as tobacco, rice, and indigo?Group of answer choicesthe Middle Coloniesthe Southern Coloniesthe Northern Colonies

Ever since 1492, the hemispheres have become more and more alike, as people mix the world’s organisms into a global stew. Thus bananas and coffee, two African crops, become the principal agricultural exports of Central America; maize and manioc, domesticated in Mesoamerica and Amazonia respectively, return the favor by becoming staples in tropical Africa. Meanwhile, plantations of rubber trees, an Amazon native, undulate across Malaysian hillsides; peppers and tomatoes from Mesoamerica form the culinary backbones of Thailand and Italy; Andean potatoes lead Ireland to feast and famine; and apples, native to the Middle East, appear in markets from Manaus to Manila to Manhattan.Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (New York: Vintage, 2005), 350.The passage above most precisely describes the effects of which of the following?Elimination ToolSelect one answerAThe Market RevolutionBImperialismCThe Columbian ExchangeDThe encomienda system