All routinized religions today (including the Native American Church, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) are successful descendents of what originated… - Peter Farb

Culture is all the things and ideas ever devised by humans working and living together.

Within a century or so after the discovery of America, more than fifty new foods had been carried back to the Old World, including maize, turkey, white potato, pumpkin, squash, the so-called Jerusalem artichoke, avocado, chocolate, and several kinds of beans. (Potatoes and maize now rank second and third in total tonnage of the world's crops, behind rice but ahead of what is probably man's oldest cultivated grain, wheat.) The European has turned for relief to drugs and pharmaceuticals the Indians discovered: quinine, ephedrine, novocaine, curare, ipecac, and witch hazel.

At the time of the Europeans discovery of North America, the American Indians already cultivated a wider variety of plants than did the Europeans.