What's the most historically influencial crop?
One of rice/potatoes/wheat would be my guess.
>>1374171
tea
>>1374171
Corn
>>1374189
I hope you are aware that corn comes from the Americas.
>>1374241
corn is a general term for staple grains. Maize comes from the Americas.
>>1374171
Hemp
>one of the oldest cultured plants
>fibre for rope, cloth, sails..
>valuable food crop (seeds)
>medicine
>ritual use in many ancient cultures
>duuuude weed dude
>>1374171
Potato.
It allowed individual families to grow their own food staples rather that the village it took to grow and harvest wheat, followed by grinding it into flour and making it into bread.
>>1374189
>maize
>in ancient Rome
Whoever made that has a terrible understanding of history.
Corn in that context obviously means cereals.
>>1374243
Did not know to be honest. But yea not English aye.
>>1374412
It's confusing because in American English corn usually means maize, but in British English it means any cereal.
>>1374171
Overall probably wheat, since it has continuosly been a staple crop for 11,000 years, since the very beginning of settled civilization, and is among the most consumed even today, second only to rice.
>>1374171
Wheat and rice are the most influential in the ancient and medieval times. After discovery of the new world, potatoes and maize.
>>1374410
Thats the joke you idiot
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Barley
cocaine
>>1374241
It's a /lit/ meme pleb
>>1374171
depends on the region. Most regions of the world have that lifegiver crop that essentially built the civilization it provided for.
Rice is obviously what built asia, with entire empires being formed simply over who owned the rice farm in Japan/China.
Wheat/Barley is what built Europe, the middle east, and North Africa, and probably the most influential in my opinion on just how resilient the crop it, able to be grown essentially anywhere on earth unlike rice, which takes a shitton of water to keep the crop healthy.
The Americas have your potatoes and Maize, which potatoes are probably the most nutritious life-giving crop, as humans realistically can live their entire lifetime on just potatoes and still be healthy.
Wheat in my opinion but i would like to add as a tidbit that we rarely think about how historically important salt is and is definitely in the spirit of this thread to mention
>>1374189
Why did he expect amphiteatres?
>A study of Fijian farms using manual labour showed that ratio of energy put into farming vs yield of energy was 1:17 for rice and 1:60 for sweet potato.
is the chinese climate not suited for potatoes or what?
>>1374785
China is actually the largest producer of Potato today.
Chinese Climate is a general fucking term as they have everything from Jungles, Deserts, Tundra, and Temperate land.
dude
weed
lmao
Marijuana, no question.
marijuana
>>1374785
Rice can be harvested three times a year. Rice has some of the highest yield per hectare. Also imagine eating sweet potatoes as staple fucking gross.
>>1374921
>Also imagine eating sweet potatoes as staple fucking gross.
is that why irish are always so pissed off?
>>1374171
Whatever grain you want to pick, I can't possibly narrow it past the ancestors of modern day barley, wheat, rice, millet, rye, barley, and sorghum. Those grains gave us... us. Retarded our growth for a little while, but once we figured the whole growing shit thing we became the most advanced species that ever graced this planet. Ever.
>>1374785
Can't dry sweet potato and save it over long term.
>>1377111
got anymore like that image? I like collecting historical illustrations.
>>1377120
You can make flour out of sweet potatoes.
>>1374921
you shut your mouth sweet potatoes are delicious
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>>1374562
>realistically
Theoretically.
wheat in the old world, maize in the new world, these crops acted as a "starter pack" for agriculture and the domestication of other plants often followed
Tea, corn, (salt) cod, potatoes, sugar.
>>1374900
>thegrinchsmokingacross.jpg
>>1377156
>>1377180
>how the pilgrims figured out how not to starve
http://www.talkingfish.org/newengland-fisheries/a-thanksgiving-fish-story
>>1374171
It varies across time and place. All of the crops you mentioned for example were extremely important, but not all of them were extremely important in every period and every location. Rice requires relatively wet climates to grow well for example so it did not prosper much in North China and iirc was not very common in Europe or the Northeastern parts of the United States as opposed to Southern China, Southeast America or Southeast Asia.
>>1377154
Banana and sugarcane are Papuan
Sorghum is Sahelian, as is pearl millet not confined to one nation but rather climatic zone and similar climatic history
>>1374491
Yeast is more important.
>>1377633
>crop
>>1374925
>Irish
>sweet potatoes
Sweet potatoes also contain fyto-oestrogens so maybe not good for stable diet.
Still wheat, rice and normal potatoes are considered unhealthy by doctors. Source: the food hourglass.
Also no love for legumes? But I guess legumes are simply not important enough.
Corn
