Morten St George Theory

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Many of the plants used by native Americans are the same plants used in Europe. They grow worldwide.

Even those that are different are often simply a different species in the same plant family (in drawings, they look the same).

Today that would be true as plants have been widely transported around the globe by humans during the past 500 years. But six or seven hundred years ago I'm sure there were many plants, e.g., corn, tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco, and diverse herbs, that could be found only the Americas and if depicted anywhere, were depicted only in the VMS.

There are plants in Europe similar to corn. Around the time you claim the Cathars went to the New World, corn had smaller cobs, not big ones, they bred them bigger. I don't know how much the Spanish had to do with breeding it bigger or if it was done entirely by the natives, but it looked more like grain in the earlier days.

Tomatoes and potatoes are from the nightshade family and tomatoes were smaller than they are now. There were nightshade-family plants in Europe as well. In drawings, many look the same.

There were plants that resemble tobacco in Europe.