A wide variety of spellings exist for the English usage of the term, e.g., tshotshke, tshatshke, tchachke, tchotchka, tchatchka, chachke, tsotchke, chotski, or chochke; the standard Yiddish transliteration is tsatske or tshatshke. In Israeli Hebrew it is often spelled ×¦××¦×§×¢, [Ëtsats.ke], with a tsade instead of teth-shin, as in Yiddish.
At first, corn was only a garden curiosity in Europe, but it soon began to be recognized as a valuable food crop. Within a few years, it spread throughout France, Italy, and all of southeastern Europe and northern Africa.
Visual Timeline. 1  c. 2700 BCE. Corn is first cultivated in Mesoamerica. 2  c. 1200 BCE. The Olmec civilization springs from the grouping of ancient villages along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. 3  c. 1200 BCE. San Lorenzo becomes the great ceremonial centre of the Olmec civilization.  c. 1200 BCE - c. 400 BCE.