Crops

Crops generally means rice, wheat, etc. A staple crop containing lots of nutrients you can eat a lot and steadily farm.

Aztecs had maize and corn.

Mostly corn.

Staple crops varied by region. In Northern China it was barley, in Southern China it was rice, in Egypt and Mesopotamia it was mostly grain, and obviously the Incans loved potatoes.

>>3155763
Maize and corn are the same thing lol

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>>3155810
Does this exclude one or the other?

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>>3155767
>Southern China it was rice
>rice.jpg
And how would one harvest this thing and manage to get rice?
or even know it was rice in the first place and then get the seeds or however it grew and cultivate it.

All this was probably common knowledge back then, it's pretty sad that I don't know and most normies dont even think about it.

>>3155810

Nope. In Europe "corn" is a generic term for any kind of grassy crop, fields of wheat and maize and even rice paddies can be termed as "corn" there. Only in America is maize a synonym for corn.

>>3155855
probably because euros just don't know what corn is. americans meanwhile have firsthand experience

>>3155883
>>3155810
troll

>>3155751
They used three sisters method. Beans, squash and maize. They also grew cotton for cloth.

>>3155831
Most of the time, people would start by foraging wild edibles, and gradually realize

>if I stick more of these in the ground, I'll have more to eat

Crops that were uniquely suited to the environment were productivity breakthroughs. For example potatoes were resistant against cold and therefore could be planted to have another food for harvest.
Rice when introduced to southern China allowed for a massive population increase because the crop was suited to the wet marshy environment. Barley was more resistant to cold, but could feed less people per input.
Same difference between barley and wheats, wheats required good quality land or it had low output while barley could be planted in marginal land with good results

>>3155751
Any grain product. Grains can be easily stored for long periods time without spoilage and cooked almost instantly.

It's grass that produces seeds.

>>3155831
>find plant with seed
>seed is edible
>collect lots of seeds from group of plants and eat them
>move plants to your village for ease
>over time figure out how to make them grow better
Its very simple