Corn

Corn is native to the US. It came from Meso america which is predominantly from Mexico, and South America. Corn was introduced to the world via Columbian Exchange, when corn was traded to the Europeans when Columbus first settled in America. This has a significant connection to our life because if its not via the Columbian Exchange, then corn will not be able to spread through out the world.

It was native to US. This has a significant connection in to my life because US got a suitable climate, which can produce lots of corn for us to eat. Also, some of the corn products, for example, cereal, and corn syrups, were made from corn from the US. .

When the Hunters and Gathers first settle down in the US, they start to plant crops and plants, which one of them is teosinte, which later started to produce corn. This is how corn was introduced to America. This connects in a way which if the hunters gathers didn’t settle down and plant corn, we might never have villages and we will still be hunting and gathering till now.

The Geography of Meso America is very suitable to plant corn. The climate is mild, warm, and the soil is moisture. Because of this climate, corn is very easily planted, which brought a very stable food supplies to make the people to not worry about food, and think of something else for example, inventing tools and start to build and expand villages which contributes to the rise of civilization in Meso America. Some examples of these civilizations are the Incas, and the Aztecs. According to my research, when the Europeans traded things with corn seeds and corn, they figured out that corn is very easy to plant and with just a few acre of land, you can plant lots of corn and produce surplus. I think because of this, corn became very popular and the Europeans started to trade more often with the Indians which made them to have some of the goods the Europeans produced and also, can increase their economy, and made all Europeans explorers want to come to US or Meso America to trade with them. I think because of corn, not just the Indians will be able to increase their civilization’s economy, but also can exchange ideas from the Europeans to help their civilization prosper. Now because, as I previously said, that corn came from US, I do expect that US has a suitable climate and geography. This connects to our life because we eat corn everyday, and nearly everything we eat was made of corn.

Corn supplies people at that time with a stable food supplies, and can be used to feed animals and can be used for art works. For example, they make pot or wood in a corn shape or they decorated with corn on it. Corn, according to my research, was used more towards feeding live stocks than used to feed people. So from this, I can tell that corn played an important role toward people because if there is no corn, then there will be no food supplies to feed the live stock.

The connects with our lives because live stock like cows and chickens were fed on corn, which predominantly chickens and cows were very important to us.This benefited man because in this case, they can change the plant into different things, for example, clothing, or even gasoline as a substitution for fossil fuel. They used corn to make clothing, and gasoline, and they even changed its soil to make it aste sweater, muti colored, or even corns that can be planted under condition which has low moisture. Corn had a positive impact on US because this supply the people in the US food, and stable food supplies for the live stocks. Also, corn had been transfered into making plastics and shirt, alcohol, and gasoline.









Links and resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornstarch http://www.campsilos.org/mod3/students/index.shtml http://www.iowacorn.org/