Before Columbus The Americas of 1491

The did the Mesoamericans begin eating more plant foods?

• The game animal population shrunk

• They thought it looked tasty

• They had already been growing it

• It was introduced to them by Columbus

What is the likely way that the Indians were able to invent maize (corn)?

• Indians used pollen from one grass to pollinate another

• Indians invented the milpa

• They Indians were given corn seeds to plant

• It came from a mutated form of teosinte

What was used to soak the corn to make it into tortillas?

• Orange

• Limon

• Lime

• Grapes

What colors can maize come in?

• Black

• Pink

• Purple

• Blue

• Read

Maize is a wheat?

• True

• False

Why is milpa important for growing crops?

• Different roots can add nutrients to the soil naturally

• It takes nutrients from the earth

• It is unbalanced

• It has two amino acids

Maize can be combined with _____ to make a complete diet.

Milpa is a system that has kept crops growing for as long as ____ years

What let to maize's involvement in the slave trade?

• Food production increased, creating a population boom

• European's had access to more people to enslave

• The European's enslaved African's because they knew how to grow maize

Who started croping maize

• Europeans

• Africans

• Mesoamericans

• Pilgrims