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Bronze and Iron AgesEconomy & Trade

Maize reaches the US Southwest

c. 2,100 BCENotable

Maize farming spreads north from Mexico into present-day Arizona and New Mexico. It laid the foundation for later village life among the Ancestral Puebloans and Hohokam.

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