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The phrase "New World Crops" is usually used to describe crops that were native to North and South America before 1492 and not found anywhere else in the world at that time. Many of these crops have since come to be grown around the world and have often become an integral part of various cultures' cuisines.
Examples
| Cereals | |
|---|---|
| Pseudocereals | sunflower
|
| Pulses | tepary bean
|
| Fiber | Agave, yucca |
| Roots and Tubers | yacon
|
| Fruits | |
| Melons | squashes
|
| Meat and poultry | |
| Nuts | shagbark hickory
|
| Other |
Agriculture
The new world developed agriculture much later than the
fertile crescent
. The following tables illustrate the crops that were grown and the chronology of domestication.
| Date | Crops | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8000BC[1] | Squash
|
Oaxaca, Mexico |
| 4000-6000BC[2] | Peppers | |
| 2500BC[3] | Cotton | Peru |
| 2200-2300BC[1] [4] | Maize | Mexico, Central America |
| 4800BC | Peppers Avocados Amaranth |
Mexico |
| 4000BC | Maize Common Bean
|
Central America |
| 4000BC | Peanut | South America |
| 3000BC | Potato | Peru |
| 2000BC | Sunflowers
Beans |
See also
Agriculture and Agronomy portal
Food portal
- Columbian Exchange
- Agriculture
- First agricultural revolution
- Fertile Crescent
- Neolithic founder crops
- Timeline of agriculture and food technology
References
- ^ a b Smith, Bruce D. (2001). "Documenting plant domestication: The consilience of biological and archaeological approaches". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America. 98 (4): 1324–1326. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Perry, Linda (July 17, 2007). "Precolumbian use of chili peppers in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America. 104 (29): 11905–11909. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "Cotton: The Fiber of Life". McGraw Hill. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ Ranere, Anthony J. (January 23, 2009). "The cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of Amercia. 106 (13): 5014–5018. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
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