Tomato
How many things can you find around your house that people had in South or Central America before 1500 (before the European invasion)? If you don’t find many around your house, how many can you find in a grocery store or a department store?
Here are some suggestions:
- Tomatoes
- Honey
- Corn (or anything with corn in it like popcorn, cornmeal, cornbread,
polenta, grits, coke with corn syrup, tacos, or tortillas) - Kidney beans, lima beans, string beans, navy beans
- Summer squash, zucchini, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, butternut squash, pumpkins
- Chili peppers, jalapenos
- Tobacco (don’t smoke it, just find it!)
- Cactus fruit
- Sweet potatoes
- Drums
- Avocados
- Fish-hooks and fishing poles
- Pottery jars and bowls
- Baskets
- Llamas
- Guinea Pigs
- Chocolate
- Potatoes
- Rubber
- Vanilla
- Cotton
