Corn?

[MikeE]

As I understand it, modern corn is a hybred of Mesoamerican maize.

Yet, ancient Greece got regular corn shipments from Egypt, Southern Russia and Sicily.

Can anyone elighten me?

[Scholar_Warrior]

the truth is in your bellybutton.

[TrippinBTM]

In the USA (maybe Canada too), we call maize "corn", but the word corn was used for a long time before the Americas were even discovered, it referred to any cereal seed (wheat, barley, oats, etc).

[ElChivato]

In the USA (maybe Canada too), we call maize "corn", but the word corn was used for a long time before the Americas were even discovered, it referred to any cereal seed (wheat, barley, oats, etc).
so when greece got these regular shipments of corn, was it corn or was it wheat, barley, or oats?

[MikeE]

OK, the archaic meaning of "corn" is "grain." That makes sense. (Darn, one less proof of ancient astronauts.)

[drumminmama]

or the mushroom intergalactic spores and lost Red heads of Argon?




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[randy]

well all i can say- with living here in the heartland of the cornbelt- i couldnt care any less about corn and the history thereof

in another words: corn sux i hate corn

or i mean the sight of the fields of it,

everywhere

hum

good luck