After European contact with the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, explorers and traders carried maize back to Europe and introduced it to other countries.

It is believed that Spanish explorers introduced Potato Tree to the Philippines in the 16th century, and from there it spread to Malesia, Australia, and the Asian mainland.

European explorers like Marco Polo introduced the concept in Europe during the 13th century.

Many culinary historians believe that in the beginning of the 14th century, around the time of early Euro-African exploration, European explorers brought their own food supplies and introduced them into local African diets.

From that brief mention, a legend arose that the famed explorer must've introduced pasta to Italy.

Lard is nothing more complicated than rendered pig fat, North America's primary grease from the time European explorers introduced hogs to this continent until the middle of the 20th century.

It was previously thought that European explorers inadvertently introduced the anthrax disease to American Indians.

European explorers introduced measles into the Polynesian Islands, which had never known it before, and it turned out to be a massively fatal disease-for a non-immune population of adults.

Spanish explorers introduced the sweet orange into the American continent.

Early European settlers and explorers in Canada introduced the wheel to North America's Aboriginal peoples, who relied on canoes, york boat, bateaux and kayaks, in addition to the snowshoe, toboggan and sled in winter.