American History

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, NEWS BUREAU         SHARE  PRINT    E-MAIL IMAGE:  CORN CULTIVATION BEGAN IN THE VICINITY OF THE CITY OF CAHOKIA BETWEEN A.D. 900 AND 1000, RESEARCHERS REPORT IN A NEW STUDY. ITS ARRIVAL MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE ABRUPT...  view  more  CREDIT: GRAPHIC BY DIANA YATES CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest by about 4000 B.C., but how and when the crop made it to other parts of North America is still a subject of debate. In a new study, scientists report that corn was not grown in the ancient metropolis of Cahokia until sometime between A.D. 900 and 1000, a relatively late date that corresponds to the start of the city's rapid expansion. The findings are published in the journal  American Antiquity . The research team determined the age of charred corn kernels found in homes, shrines and other archaeolog...

--> by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz, D. Claude Morest, and Carole Campbell Golden, Ed.D. Edited by Patricia F. Braccio Table of Contents   The Peacemaker ................................................1 Hendrik Hudson ................................................5 Trading at Manhattan ......................................8 The Dutch West India Company ....................10 Albany, New York ............................................12 Peter Minuit and the Patroons ......................15 Territorial Disputes, 1632–1637 ....................18 Wilhelm Kieft, 1637–1639 ..............................21 Indian Wars......................................................25 Peter Stuyvesant..............................................28 New Amsterdam’s Population ........................31 New Amsterdam’s Buildings ..........................34 New Amsterdam Life ......................................36 Fort Neck, Long Island................