01188nas a2200133   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260000800043100002500051245006900076300001000145520088500155022001401040       2018                            d  cjun1 aCarlos Sanchez Verin00aAgriculture and Food in Pre-Hispanic Mexico and the 16th Century  a60-813 aThe emergence of agriculture in Mexico was a factor of great relevance, which allowed the development of Mesoamerican cultures more than three thousand years of history. The geographical location of the different ethnic groups that inhabited this region allowed the cultivation of a wide variety of plants, such as corn, beans, pumpkin and chili, basic products in the Mesoamerican diet, as well as other products were developed according to the geographic characteristics and dimatological, such as cocoa, from which chocolate is obtained, and even vanilla, being appreciated all over the world. Those original products were mixed with those brought by Europeans in the sixteenth century and this gave rise to Mexican cuisine, which in 2010 was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).  a2175-3709