An Test was Re: SC - Truck Crops

[CBlackwill@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/7/00 7:03:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, harper at idt.net 
writes:

>  A 
>  surprising number of people stumbled over easy things like corn (I 
>  though most Americans would remember the grade-school stories about 
>  the Indians teaching the settlers to plant corn).

I think most Americans remember that story (if they went to school at all), 
but I think they also may have considered that Columbus discovered America in 
1492, and considered it possible that corn (maize) could have been in 
widespread use in Europe by the end of the middle ages (after all, who could 
resist such a fine, sweet and delicious American product??).  After all, the 
wreckage of a Trireme was discovered off the coast of South America (though 
it is speculated, and I believe, that this was a hoax).  With misinformation 
like this floating around, it is easy to believe that trade between Europe 
and Distant lands was commonplace (which it was, though not to the extent 
most people believe)

Balthazar of Blackmoor  
  


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