1. Where There’s Smoke . . .
• With tobacco beginning with Indians in the Americas, it became a
very popular trade tool. Even to this day its very popular.
• Even though smoking was seen as a religious way to be spiritual, it
was outlawed and people who smoked the “demonic vegetable” was
to be punished.
• With sailors picking up the smoking habit, it quickly traveled around
the world.

2. Mocca is not Chocolate
• Coffee came from Yemen’s port of Mocca.
At first coffee was mostly an Arabic,
Egyptian, and Indian drink. Not only was
the coffee expensive, but Europeans didn’t
like the bitter flavor so much. For Muslims,
they found it a heresy for drinking coffee.
• During a war, the Turks had left many
coffee bags behind and the owner of the
first Viennese coffee house, instead of
throwing them away he added milk and
honey, which the Europeans loved.
• The town of Betelfaguy, a two-day trip
inland from Mocca, was one of the major
markets. Farmers brought their beans
down from their nearby plots throughout
the year.
• Once people got tired of waiting for
their coffee orders its when countries
started to plant their own coffee
plants. Soon everyone had coffee and
Mocca was just remembered as the
ones creating a delicious drink.

3. The Staff of Life
• In 1492, the Europeans nutrients and main
food source was rice and wheat. The most
nutritious food was the wheat, but also the
hardest to cultivate especially when
famines where happening at the time.
• The Chinese mostly grew rice because it was
a little easier to grow and was able to feed
more people than wheat did. In America,
people would grow corn, and although it
wasn’t as nutritious, it was easy to grow and
could be eaten in many ways.
• Big animals were rare in America and didn’t
allow people to eat meat. Even though
Europe had more animals, they struggled to
feel and keep people healthy. Then the
Black Death hit and many people died
which caused the population of Europe to
decrease.
• Columbus was the reason for change in all
over the world because he brought many
spices and different foods from America to
Europe. Columbus also brought animals
into America, but it didn’t turn out so well
because it brought a lot of diseases and
killed almost 75% of the American people.