WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Why did maize become an important crop in Oaxaca? It was relied on for the annual food supply.

Detailed explanation-2: -Maize has always been the main staple food of Mexicans and the principal crop cultivated by its farmers for millennia. In the twentieth century, Mexico’s economic growth centred around towns and cities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Corn cobs more than 6, 000 years old found in the Oaxaca region of Mexico suggest that farmers domesticated corn from a grass called teosinte. Over the centuries farmers bred larger and more productive varieties.

Detailed explanation-4: -Though it’s unknown who first domesticated what we today know as corn-crossbreeding it from a grass-like grain called teosinte-most studies trace it to Indigenous people in southern Mexico, and some of the oldest known specimens of corn have been found in caves in Oaxaca, dating from between 4500 and 4200 BCE.