Vocab
What was used by early humans to harvest maize?
A sickle
Did the people of Oaxaca move around or stay in one place?
They were always on the move.
Where is Mesoamerica modern day?
(Central) Mexico
Meso means _____.
Middle/center
The hard stone tool did what?
Grided corn kernels into flour to be used for baking
The maize revolution started in.
2000 B.C
Maize was Mesoamerica's ________?
Staple
When did the corn fragments date back to?
4250 B.C.
Which was bigger, teosinte or modern day corn?
Modern day corn.
There was a ______ of maize in Oaxaca.
Surplus
Where did the scientists find the ancient plant?
A cave.
True or false? The first maize tasted good.
False
Also there was an ________ of maize in Oaxaca.
Abundance
What color was teosinte
Green
Maize is a descendant of this crop.
teosinte