Time trip.

Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | October 4, 2002 | Copyright

* It's hard to imagine the American West without thinking of horses. And what would Italian food be like without tomatoes? But long ago, horses and tomatoes were alien species in some countries. European explorers brought horses to the Americas. The tomato went the other way--from the Americas to Europe.

* Most American Indians never saw a horse until 1519. That year Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes (below) landed in Tabasco, Mexico, with a force of 600 men and 20 horses aboard his ships. According to the firsthand account written by Spaniard Bernal Diaz del ...

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