On Thursday, January 30, 1997 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, AMICUS CONSTANTINI wrote:
In article <dgeiken-3001...@edmonton-14.slip.uiuc.edu>,
dge...@uiuc.edu (Deane Geiken) wrote:
What exactly is the grain, chroniclers are referring to when they state that "corn" was ordered or shipped for the army. Certainly it is not the corn that we in the US are familiar with. I was under the impression
that, that type of corn was utilized only after the colonization of the N. American continent? What type of CORN are these chroniclers talking
about then?
Deane
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Deane
"Corn" was originally (still is in Britain, maybe) a general term for cereal grains. i would guess it usually meant barley, but could refer to wheat,
rye, etc. Maize (the type of corn we in the US are familiar with) was originally called "Indian corn" referring to American Indians, that is.
There is a lively debate in sci.archeology concerning the possibility of maize being grown in the Indian subcontinent before, well, before 1492,
let's say.
AMICVS CONSTANTINI
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