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Old World
shipped to the New World with African slaves.
1685
The New Word
originated here
1520's The Portuguese and Spanish brought it to Brazil and mexico.
The Columbian Exchange
1450-1750s
What date did the it spread to the west thourgh the Columbian Exchange?
It spread to the New World through the Colombian Exchange in 1685 with influnce of Europeans, Asian rice varieties had spread across West Africa on coastal plantations. Africa had their own strain called Oryza sativa before any outside exchange. Both types of rice were shipped with the slaves in order to feed their colonies in the New World.
It first came to the West in present-day South Carolina and spread throughout the New World. By the 18th Century, Rice had already spread from the east westward and was evident in Europe, Asia, and most of Africa prior to its arrival to the Americas
How profitable was it?
Rice cultivation caused an agricultural revolution for America. It was used for exporting. Europeans used West African Slaves to their advantage because they knew how to cultivate rice. It is a plantation crop because it was used for exporting, not profit.
Who profited from it?
Europe profited from rice because of the success from the New World.
The Americas were on high and they wanted more West African slaves because they brought prior knowledge and technology into growing rice.
How was this item incorporated into the culture of a new group of people in the 1450-1750 period?
The one example of rice incorporated into Culture was in South Carolina slaves were forced to tend the crops using their poir knowledge but they also brought diseases they were immune to, but not the Europeans. This led to the demand of slaves in the slave trade.
Another example of incorporation was when european diets started to change. Rice became an added crop to the New World.
The cultivation of rice from the old world to the new world brought room for diseases to spread. West African slaves brought malaria to the new world.
Sources
* ricepedia.org/culture/history-of-rice-cultivation
* thecolumbianexchange.weebly.com/rice.html
* PNAS.com
*quatr.us/china/rice-come-china.html