Sentences with phrase «cultivation of amaranth»

The Aztecs were heavily dependent on cultivation of amaranth for survival.

With the demise of the Aztec empire came a sharp drop in the cultivation of Amaranth, even as a food source.

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Like amaranth and quinoa, corn has a long history of cultivation in the New World and was venerated as a sacred food.

The sophisticated cultivation methods developed by the Aztecs produced enough of their 4 stable crops, chia, corn, beans and amaranth, to feed a population of around 11 million people.

This offended the Spanish as a perversion of the eucharist and as a result, cultivation and production was suppressed and grain amaranth became a little grown crop until recently (Berghofer & Schoenlecher 2002; Plotkin 1988; Tucke 1986).