Project 6 Plan C: Let's Make a Corn Field

What a marvelous cornfield! Thank you, Master!

It looks like we'll be able to harvest a generous amount of corn, no?

Yes... By the way, you mentioned something earlier, but how are corn and pirates connected?

Right. Mash, Master. Where do you think is famous for its corn?

Yes... I feel like America would surpass other countries in amount of corn produced.

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Right. Originally, corn was almost only found in the Americas.

But, at some point it spread to Europe, where we lived at the time.

One man brought it back to Europe from the American continent.

Yes. The man's name was Christopher Columbus.

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It wasn't just corn, either.

Because of him, all kinds of things started to spread throughout Europe that were not formerly there.

Yes, I have heard that his actions led to an unprecedented exchange of flora, fauna, and culture

between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. They call this phenomenon the "Columbian Exchange."

Oh, I didn't know there was a term for it.

Well, label it however you like. But if you think about it, it's pretty amazing, right?

Things that people never knew existed...

People from opposite parts of the world probably had no idea other things existed in other places.

Yet such unimaginable things began to spread into their culture one after the other until they were regarded as normal. What people took for granted was completely transformed.

So, here's my thinking.

Columbus's long voyage robbed both continents of their so-called "common knowledge."

In that sense, that would make Columbus the great forefather of pirates like us.

So we're going to show our respect to our great founder with this cornfield.

Maybe someday we will be lucky enough to plunder some great treasure that will shock the whole world!