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<blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 7475388" data-attributes="member: 5038"><p>Sort of. The advantages of Eurasian founder crops were a) the Mediterranean climate which resulted in plants not wasting their energy on the development of non-edible fibrous parts, but required them to grow fast, and produce big seeds (which happened to be more useful to humans); b) the ancestors of these founder crops were all abundant and productive meaning that it was useful dedicating energy to collect as there was more than enough to store; c) all of the first eight founder crops of Eurasia were hermaphroditic self pollinators including the three cereals; and d) of the cereals, wheat is high in protein.</p><p></p><p>Rice and early corn in the New World were much less convenient and they were both low in protein which meant that they posed nutritional issues. Teosinte, the ancestor of corn, was much smaller than what we know today as corn. It also had a hard inedible covering which meant energy was wasted removing that covering was the size of one's thumb. It took a long time before corn became useful to the diet of Native Americans. </p><p></p><p>While Native Americans in Eastern North America had squash as a founder crop, its other founder crops were sunflower, sumpweed and goosefoot. Sumpweed was apparently had good protein value, but it had drawbacks such as causing hayfever and skin irritation according to Diamond This posed problems. First in terms of nutritional value the package was incomplete requiring North American Native Americans to rely on fishing and hunting. Second, the major indigenous crops of Eastern North America were hard to exploit and still are in the 20th Century according to Diamond (the difficulty is why Native Americans of Eastern North America eventually abandoned them for the "trinity").</p><p></p><p>Speaking of the trinity, Mexican crops started to arrive to Native Americans in the Eastern North America by 1AD, but they didn't have the complete trinity (beans, corn, and squash until 1100 AD when "modern' corn arrived. This put intensive food production far behind both Meso and South America let alone Europe and, thus, behind in other areas that arise with intensive food production.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg K, post: 7475388, member: 5038"] Sort of. The advantages of Eurasian founder crops were a) the Mediterranean climate which resulted in plants not wasting their energy on the development of non-edible fibrous parts, but required them to grow fast, and produce big seeds (which happened to be more useful to humans); b) the ancestors of these founder crops were all abundant and productive meaning that it was useful dedicating energy to collect as there was more than enough to store; c) all of the first eight founder crops of Eurasia were hermaphroditic self pollinators including the three cereals; and d) of the cereals, wheat is high in protein. Rice and early corn in the New World were much less convenient and they were both low in protein which meant that they posed nutritional issues. Teosinte, the ancestor of corn, was much smaller than what we know today as corn. It also had a hard inedible covering which meant energy was wasted removing that covering was the size of one's thumb. It took a long time before corn became useful to the diet of Native Americans. While Native Americans in Eastern North America had squash as a founder crop, its other founder crops were sunflower, sumpweed and goosefoot. Sumpweed was apparently had good protein value, but it had drawbacks such as causing hayfever and skin irritation according to Diamond This posed problems. First in terms of nutritional value the package was incomplete requiring North American Native Americans to rely on fishing and hunting. Second, the major indigenous crops of Eastern North America were hard to exploit and still are in the 20th Century according to Diamond (the difficulty is why Native Americans of Eastern North America eventually abandoned them for the "trinity"). Speaking of the trinity, Mexican crops started to arrive to Native Americans in the Eastern North America by 1AD, but they didn't have the complete trinity (beans, corn, and squash until 1100 AD when "modern' corn arrived. This put intensive food production far behind both Meso and South America let alone Europe and, thus, behind in other areas that arise with intensive food production. [/QUOTE]
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