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AP Human Geography
Unit 5 – Agriculture and Rural Land–Use
Topic 5.3
What factor played a major role in diffusion of corn from Mesoamerica to other parts of North America?
Trade networks between indigenous groups facilitated its spread.
Corn naturally dispersed via wind currents across continents.
Corn was propagated by migrating birds who consumed corn seeds in Mesoamerica and excreted them elsewhere in North America.
The Spanish conquistadors brought it back to Europe after colonization of Americas.
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