Assertion: amaranth | /r/HasProperty | major grain crop
Facets:
value: along with maize
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Amaranth was a major grain crop in the pre-conquest Aztec empire (Sauer, 1950b; Pal and Khoshoo, 1974; Early, 1977; Haughton, 1978); ancient Mexicans made idols of a dough from seeds of the crop they called huahtli, which has been identified as grain amaranth (Sauer, 1950b; Marx, 1977).
text: Amaranth was one of the three major crops collected, along with maize and beans, as tribute from the 17 provinces that made up the Empire.