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XICO AND CENTRAL 



AMERICA 



Food Plants 



Cultivated by 



Amer 



ican Indians 



Maize 



Pineapples 





Cashew nut 



Potatoes 



Xispero 





Jocote 



Sweet potatoes 



Barbados cherry 



Star apples 



Tomatoes 



Strawberries 





Paraguay tea 



Pumpkins 



Persimmons 





Alligator pear 



Squashes 



Papaws 





Chirimoya 



Lima beans 



Guava 





Sour sop 



Kidney beans 



Arracacha 





Sweet sop 



Peppers 



Peanuts 





Custard apple 



Cacao 



Oca 





Cassava 



Important Economic Contributions of American 

 Indians 



Medicines 



Fibers 



Tobacco 



Cotton 



Cinchona (Quinine) 



Henequen 



Cascara Sagrada 



Pita 



Cocaine 





Domesticated Animals Gums 



Alpaca Rubber 



Llama Copal 



Guinea pig Peruvian Balsam 



Dog Chicle 



Muscovy duck 

 Turkey 



Dyes 

 Anil (Indigo) 

 Cochineal 

 Logwood 

 Fustic 



