The reason there were so many different crops grown in Central America is because in Central America there were many citizens in America. So many DIFFERENT crops were grown because people wanted to trade with them so they had a high trade rate. The americans also had a free trade agreement to they grew so many different crops because different places may want different crops so they can get higher trade rates.
Agriculture was based mainly on corn but other crops were widely grown including squash beans and chile peppers. Non food crops such as cotton and tobacco were grown for both domestic use and trade. Hope I helped
A major impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that it brought the world dangerously close to nuclear war. This crisis showed that there was great potential for a nuclear armed conflict to potentially break out.
