FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES
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Sweet Potatoes
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Peppers
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Maize
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Squash
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Detailed explanation-1: -Corn, known outside the United States as maize, is native to Central America, where it was domesticated by the Aztecs and Mayans. Corn remains the most widely grown crop in the Americas today. The United States is the world’s largest corn grower, producing more than 40 percent of the world’s corn.
Detailed explanation-2: -Corn, soybeans, barley and oats The largest United States crop in terms of total production is corn, the majority of which is grown in a region known as the Corn Belt. The second largest crop grown in the United States is soybeans.
Detailed explanation-3: -mays, from Spanish: maíz after Taino: mahis), also known as corn in North American and Australian English, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10, 000 years ago.
Detailed explanation-4: -Corn is the largest agricultural crop grown in the United States.
Detailed explanation-5: -Maize domestication, the commonly accepted theory goes, happened in the Balsas River Valley of south-central Mexico.