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Farmers in southern Mexico breed a wild grass into maize. It will feed the Olmec, the Maya and the Aztecs.
How it touches Islam The Quran describes rain bringing out green shoots and 'grains arranged in layers' (6:99).
Source: History
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
