subject: Domesticated culture [print this page] As soon as the Indians of Mesoamerica began to lead sedentary lives, they began to cultivate a variety of edible and useful plants for the economy. Here is a list of cultures that Indians were grown on their plantations:
Avocado (in Nahuatl - aguacatl), Cacao (cocoa pro see above), cotton, cassava, papaya, red beans, bean saves, peppers (chili - the language of Nahuatl chilli), pumpkin, potatoes, sunflowers, tomatoes (tomato - on Nahua tomatl), maize (corn) and tobacco (introduced by Columbus with Antil - about it, see below).
Caps - There are 4 kinds of peppers: Columbia (Shilli conicum), Peru (Shilli angulosum), pubescent (Shilli pubescens) and are widely known throughout the world, Mexican (Shilli annuum).
Corn was the same for the Indians almost the most valuable asset. For example, in the mythology of the Olmec, the most ancient civilization in Mesoamerica, much attention is paid to the very process of acquiring maize. In most myths the god - the benefactor of mankind (Quetzalcoatl or Quetzalcoatl), extracts of maize grain from the mountain, where they are hidden (in relief of man's God makes from the bowels of the earth at the hands of the baby - the embodiment of maize to transmit it to others). Yes, and subsequent Mesoamerican civilization not left without due attention to its main nutrient grass.
Scientists have found out approximately how many years progenitress current maize. After years of archaeological excavations in various places, they finally did they found the oldest cop. Its age is 7000 years old, and the length of the rod corncobs that time reached only 2.5 centimeters.
Sunflower. More recently, scientists conducted research in the small town of San Andres, which was once the center of the Olmec civilization. There they found the seeds of sunflowers, which was considered domesticated in North America, but now there were earlier signs of its cultivation. Age of seeds is dated 2500 BC
