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For example, maize is still the basis of much of Mexican cuisine. [3] Countless other New World crops were spread among other countries thanks to Christopher Columbus. The peanut became widely used in Africa. Capsicum peppers are a significant part of Asian cuisine. Tomatoes are essential to Italian cuisine and are very common worldwide.
Cuisine of the precolonial indigenous cultures of the Great Plains. Precolonial in this context refers to food and dishes that started in Pre-Columbian times. Items in this category may be in use modern day or an extinct practice. Note: Not all tribes ate everything on this list.
Inca cuisine originated in pre-Columbian times within the Inca civilization from the 13th to the 16th century. The Inca civilization stretched across many regions on the western coast of South America (specifically Peru ), and so there was a great diversity of unique plants and animals used for food.
The pre-conquest cuisine of the Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica made a major contribution to shaping modern-day Mexican cuisine, Belizean cuisine, Salvadoran cuisine, Honduran cuisine, Guatemalan cuisine. The cultures involved included the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Pipil and many more (see the List of pre-Columbian civilizations).
Chenopodium berlandieri or goosefoot, Bozeman, Montana. Agriculture on the precontact Great Plains describes the agriculture of the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains of the United States and southern Canada in the Pre-Columbian era and before extensive contact with European explorers, which in most areas occurred by 1750.
Native American cuisine of the Southeastern Woodlands (12 P) Pages in category "Pre-Columbian Native American cuisine" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The pre-Hispanic burial contained an elite lord from the local Coclé culture and dated between 750 A.D. and 800 A.D., archaeologists said. Some of the gold artifacts found in the 1,200-year-old ...
Many pre-Columbian civilizations established permanent or urban settlements, agriculture, and complex societal hierarchies. In North America, indigenous cultures in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Middle Archaic period built complexes of multiple mounds, with several in Louisiana dated to 5600–5000 BP (3700 BC–3100 BC).