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It helped to improve diet
It helped to improve diets by providing much needed nutrition and calories 
Corn
Corn
before corn or maize was known people ate bread and other kinds of vegtables. When Colombus came back from his trip to America he brought corn, potatoes, coffee, tomatoes and lots of other things with him. Corn was easy to grow, very tasty and it didn't give any diseases like other things did.
Corn in the New World
Corn in the New World
Corn was a staple of the Native American diet for many centuries before Columbus' arrival. It is even the sacred crop of the Mayans.
The Old World before corn
The Old World before corn

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It helped to improve diets by providing much needed nutrition and calories 

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before corn or maize was known people ate bread and other kinds of vegtables. When Colombus came back from his trip to America he brought corn, potatoes, coffee, tomatoes and lots of other things with him. Corn was easy to grow, very tasty and it didn't give any diseases like other things did.

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Corn was a staple of the Native American diet for many centuries before Columbus' arrival. It is even the sacred crop of the Mayans.

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Before the importation of corn, the Old World was struggling. There was a lack of food in the Old World due to overpopulation and the economy was suffering specifically the livestock industry because the people could barely feed themselves, much less the cattle. Corn provided a surplus of food to supply the population of the Old World and revive the livestock industry.

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Along with corn, Europeans brought back potatoes and tomatoes to the Old World. They brought livestock, sugar, rice, and many other things to the New World. The Colombian Exchange also opened both sides to many new diseases, but the New World suffered much more catastrophic death totals.

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At the time of the Colombian Exchange, Spain had declared war on Islam, children were becoming required by law to go to school, and the first toothbrush was invented in China

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Corn was primarily a crop for peasants, and no place had a higher concentration of peasants than South Africa. Corn became the biggest part of South Africa's food supply, as it took from 66% to 75% of the total farm land in this region.

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https://prezi.com/njb_uztywmrp/how-corn-changed-the-old-world/

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Corn is the food staple of over 200 million people across the World and is a part of the diet of billions of people worldwide.