How was corn brought to America?
In the Old World, corn refers to wheat and this grassy cereal was not kown in many countries before the dawn of history. In the Near World, corn is that tall cereal topped with silken tassles and thick ears of golden kernels. We also call it maize or Indian corn. Wheat, the corn of the Old World, was brought to the Americas by the Spanish settlers. Maize or Indian corn, had been grown in America for thousands of years when the Spanish arrived. Its history is one of the most fascinating tales of agriculture and modern experts are still trying to figure out many of the details. Rice and barley, oats and wheat were developed from wild grasses by our remote ancestors. Year by year, the best seeds were selected and sown. The best strains inherited and handed on good qualities and the cultivated cereals improved through the generations. With generations of patient farming, these cereals differed greatly from their wild ancestors, But we can recognize the wild grasses from which they were dev
