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Sugar?

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@WBardwin I've heard by it's literal definition it always existed in the old world (in the form of stuff like jaggery, apple, etc.) but what about the current type ?? 45.127.44.80 (talk) 03:51, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sugarcane "is native to the warm temperate and tropical regions of India, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea". Please note that talk pages are not forums; we add claims to articles only by finding and citing reliable sources. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:30, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lead images

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The lead images are not, I suggest, well-chosen, all being of plants. The exchange however was of animals and culture (and diseases) as well as plants, so the images are in that way misleading. We'd do better to have one plant, one animal, and one cultural image, for example. Or we might find a historic image of animals and plants on board a ship (with its human crew), which would give the idea more concretely in one go. Suggestions would be welcomed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:04, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We may also consider one disease from each hemisphere (recommend smallpox and syphilis). I will plan to dig around on the Commons for a contemporary illustration of goods aboard a ship. ThaesOfereode (talk) 15:15, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea. I've given it a go: it's already a whole lot better. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:28, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Theodore de Bry made a lot of engravings c. 1590. One or two might be usable, but they come with a lot of pro-European ideology, e.g. Columbus is greeted with gifts by the natives.
Yes, he inhabits a weird world in this context because he was also anti-Spanish (see his images on Black legend). I considered the image above since it shows a literal exchange between the Old and New Worlds, but they're not really exchanging anything relevant to this discussion (i.e., no maize, no cows, etc.). We might consider finding more images in the Florentine Codex, since it contains a lot of images about the New World/Old World contact. ThaesOfereode (talk) 21:07, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Most of them seem to be about fighting, but I've found and added one image which shows 4 kinds of livestock arriving in Mexico, not bad at all. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:43, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mistake in plants table?

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The article states that chilies were brought from the Americas to Europe and India, but the table at the end of the section puts chilies in the “old world to new world” column 51.7.218.116 (talk) 06:02, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]