Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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barley, knotweed,

goosefoot

New Guinea

sugar cane

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Mesoamerica, India, Ethiopia, sub-Saharan Africa, and South America, supplemented in several of those areas by wool from domestic animals. Of the centers of early food production, only the eastern United States and New Guinea remained without a fiber crop.
Alongside these parallels, there were also some major differences in food production systems around the world. One is that agriculture in much of the Old World came to involve broadcast seeding and monoculture fields, and eventually plowing. That is, seeds were sown by being

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Croft Type

fiber

Roots,

Tubers

Melons

flax — muskmelon

hemp — note 6
cotton (G. hirsutum), jicama squashes (C. pepo, etc.)yucca, agave
cotton (G. barbadense) manioc, sweet squashes (C. maxima, etc.)potato, potato,
oca
cotton G. herbaceum) African yams watermelon, bottle gourd
cotton (G. arboreum), — cucumber
flax
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— Jerusalem artichoke squash (C. pepo)