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The old-world/new-world collision revolutionized European agriculture because corn, potatoes, peanuts, squash, and tomatoes created a more nutritious food base and helped produce a European population explosion.
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Corn
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang reads the Mayan creation story as a claim that humans are made from corn and exist to serve the gods who created them.
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"...nutritious and easy -to -produce vegetables back into Europe. So the corn was invented by the native people of Central America. Corn is not..."
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"Okay? It's a very long process. And corn allowed for the man civilization to flourish. So corn is an extremely important nutrient that's easy..."
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"...of wood and that doesn't work either so then they try corn maze okay and that works so that's why the um uh man's..."
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"your walk good behold now therefore and see that which is beneath the sky are not the mountains clear do you not see the..."
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"earth we thank you therefore that we were created that we were given flame and shape we became because of you our grandmother and..."
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"So sometimes like, well, I spoke false, but you falsified the corn, right? And in most countries in every country, you would get punished..."
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"...new markets and steal new, steal gold and bring the potato, corn, and tomato back into Europe which allows for population growth. Okay? Okay...."
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"...age of exploration, Europeans were able to bring back the potato, corn, tomatoes, squash."
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"...from science. Okay? They not only were the first to invent corn. Again, what's really important for us to remember is that corn is..."
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"Okay? What they would do is this. They would grow corn, bean, and squash together in a symbiotic relationship. So that they're all helping..."
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"...maybe you have, 100 bushels of wheat, maybe 20 bushels of corn. Okay?"
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