What were the benefits of the crops from the Americas? How did these crops affect European culture?

Europeans took many useful crops from the Americas, such as tomatoes, potatoes, beans, squash, avocados, pineapples, tobacco, and chili peppers. They also traded these products to other parts of the world where they grew easier.

the two colonies had the earliest laws mandating religious tolerance.

(d) rivers.

explanation:

civilizations developed around rivers because their waters provided places to hunt and fish. also, as the rivers flooded, the lands around them became fertile. this allowed them to support farming. this is especially true of the nile river, which flooded the same time each year.