Hi Elizabeth--Try to avoid using About.com as a source. Instead, look for educational websites related to schools, museums, libraries, and research organizations. If you must, look at Wikipedia to see what sources are cited at the bottom of the page. That's a good place to start.
by Alfred Crosby As might be expected, the Europeans who settled on the east coast of the United States cultivated crops like wheat and apples, which they had brought with them. European weeds, which the colonists did not cultivate and, in fact, preferred to uproot, also fared well in the New World.
by Alfred Crosby As might be expected, the Europeans who settled on the east coast of the United States cultivated crops like wheat and apples, which they had brought with them. European weeds, which the colonists did not cultivate and, in fact, preferred to uproot, also fared well in the New World.
Essays on American environmental history. Nature Transformed is an interactive curriculum enrichment service for teachers, offering them practical help in planning courses and presenting rigorous subject matter to students. Nature Transformed explores the relationship between the ways men and women have thought about their surroundings and the ways they have acted toward them.
Essays on American environmental history. Nature Transformed is an interactive curriculum enrichment service for teachers, offering them practical help in planning courses and presenting rigorous subject matter to students. Nature Transformed explores the relationship between the ways men and women have thought about their surroundings and the ways they have acted toward them.
Origin-
Peru
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How it was Spread-
In 1519, Cortez discovered tomatoes growing in Montezuma's gardens and brought seeds back to Europe where they were planted as ornamental curiosities, but not eaten
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Other Interesting Facts-
Most likely the first variety to reach Europe was yellow in color, since in Spain and Italy they were known as pomi d'oro, meaning yellow apples. Italy was the first to embrace and cultivate the tomato outside South America.
- Alejandro Izaguirre
This page has comments. Move your mouse over the or marked image. Unfortunately, some of the content of this page, such as "mouseover" comments, is not printable. But a PDF version is available with everything included, at http:www.learnnc.org/lp/pdf/disease-and-catastrophe-p1689.pdf. Of all the kinds of life exchanged when the Old and New Worlds met, lowly germs had the greatest impact.
by Maria Popova What events from half a millennium ago can teach us about the globalization debate today. In 2005, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann came to be regarded as the most ambitious and sweeping look at pre-Columbus North and South America ever published.
by Maria Popova What events from half a millennium ago can teach us about the globalization debate today. In 2005, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann came to be regarded as the most ambitious and sweeping look at pre-Columbus North and South America ever published.