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Who was profiting from trade in this item?

  • Europe, especially the Iberian Peninsula

1000 BCE

1800s

origin

How profitable was the trade in rice from 1450-1750?

Where Did Rice Originate?

  • Rice caused an agricultural revolution and was used for exporting to other places. When West African slaves brought knowledge and technology for rice growing, they also brought malaria, which grew in rice fields, causing death for the Europeans that grew the rice

How did the spread/cultivation of this item impact the environment of its new location?

columbian exchange: 1700s

  • Rice originated in East Asia, specifically China, roughly 10,000 years ago. It spread along rivers and eventually reached Europe and Africa. The Portuguese and Spanish brought the rice to Brazil, Central America, and South America, while Europe brought it to the Americas with West African Slaves in the mid 1700s.
  • It gave them a staple thing to eat and also to trade, but it also spread malaria.

How was this item incorporated into the culture of a new group of people in the 1450-1750 period?

How did rice impact labor practices from 1450-1750?

Where did it spread after the Colombian Exchange?

  • West African slaves brought the technology and knowledge of growing rice when they were sold into slavery.
  • Especially in South Carolina because of the environment, rice fields were implemented with the knowledge African slaves, who were forced to tend to the crops. The Africans brought malaria with them, and rice fields bred that malaria. The Europeans died from malaria, but the slaves were immune, so more slaves were needed, increasing the amount of slave trade.
  • It first came to the West in present-day South Carolina and spread throughout the new world. Rice had already spread from the east westward and was present in Europe, Asia, and most of Africa prior to its arrival to the America

What is the date that it spread to the West through the Colombian Exchange?

Sources:

  • It spread to the New World through the Colombian Exchange in the late 1700s (specifically in 1685).
  • thecolumbianexchange.weebly.com/rice.html​
  • quatr.us/china/rice-come-china.html​
  • ricepedia.org/culture/history-of-rice-cultivation

History of Rice: The Colombian Exchange

Alison Eltz & Alex Lammens

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