Even more important than corn, over 50 million indigenous people died off, mostly from diseases, which made it much easier for the Europeans to take over the land that became the Americas. So many died that it cut the amount of carbon in the air in half and caused global cooling which shows a major world pandemic just may correct climate change someday.
'Land', entire continents.
As of course History cannot be rewritten, and compensated for; I was looking to improve my understanding of it. In my perspective, the Times of Columbus was also the period sea routes to India and the East were found and the ultimate colonization of Asians. A totally different set of factors, rules, etc. compared to the Americas.
I see this form of probing history on the Net. For example:
The Real Reason the South Seceded by Donald Livingston
Abbeville Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S96iQYL0bw
Point is, most of us, including I; can hardly see through the cloud of tragedies.
In the case of native Americans, they are described as hunter-gatherer tribes.
American school text says:
https://www.campsilos.org/mod3/students/c_history3.shtml
Like other tribes in the region, the Sauk and Mesquakie women planted many acres of corn each spring. They tended the fields surrounding their villages and nurtured gardens of pumpkins, beans and squash.
Parts of corn plant found other uses. The husks could be braided and woven to make masks, moccasins, sleeping mats, baskets or cornhusk dolls. Corncobs could be used for fuel, for game darts or for ceremonial use.
My point is, if Mesquakie tribes were growing corn and veggies, then the 'tribes' perspective changes to 'society'.
This theory could be agreed upon if the M natives had also learnt to extract corn oil which seems to be purely an American invention.
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Finally, with ethanol made from corn !!!
Edited by
jaish
on Fri 11/19/21 08:40 PM