WorksheetsBefore Columbus The Americas of 1491
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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 (a) to make a complete diet.
Milpa is a system that has kept crops growing for as long as (a) 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
