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Japan has long been famous for the excellence of its rice. It was suggested that rice cultivation in Japan began about 28900 years ago. With the introduction of wet-paddy rice farming around 300 BC, the Japanese established more stable farming communities.
In ancient Japan, a person’s wealth was measured in kokus. One koku was 47 gallons of rice. Peasant taxes were charges in rice, and the government paid its high ranking workers with it.
In India, references to rice appear in ancient India Hindu script (estimated to be 1500 to 1000 BC). Up to the 1950s, the oldest excavations of rice grains was found at Hasthinapur, Uttar Predesh dated between 1000 and 750 BC.
Rice came to Java form India during the later period of Hindu influence, irrigated rice was introduced to Java in medieval times and spread gradually to the scattered communities of the southern Malay Peninsula.
Rice is first mentioned in Greek texts at the time of Alexander the Great. Aristobulus who had accompanied Alexander on his Asiatic campaigns described wet farming, and Megasthenes explains how rice was used as the staple food in Indian meals.
According to Aristobulus, the rice stands in water enclosures and is sown in beds and the plant is four cubits in height, not only having many ears but also yielding much grain.
Aristobulus says that rice grows in Bactariana, Babylonia, Susida and lower Syria.
Ancient history of rice
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Ancient history of rice
Japan has long been famous for the excellence of its rice. It was suggested that rice cultivation in Japan began about 28900 years ago. With the introduction of wet-paddy rice farming around 300 BC, the Japanese established more stable farming communities.
In ancient Japan, a person’s wealth was measured in kokus. One koku was 47 gallons of rice. Peasant taxes were charges in rice, and the government paid its high ranking workers with it.
In India, references to rice appear in ancient India Hindu script (estimated to be 1500 to 1000 BC). Up to the 1950s, the oldest excavations of rice grains was found at Hasthinapur, Uttar Predesh dated between 1000 and 750 BC.
Rice came to Java form India during the later period of Hindu influence, irrigated rice was introduced to Java in medieval times and spread gradually to the scattered communities of the southern Malay Peninsula.
Rice is first mentioned in Greek texts at the time of Alexander the Great. Aristobulus who had accompanied Alexander on his Asiatic campaigns described wet farming, and Megasthenes explains how rice was used as the staple food in Indian meals.
According to Aristobulus, the rice stands in water enclosures and is sown in beds and the plant is four cubits in height, not only having many ears but also yielding much grain.
Aristobulus says that rice grows in Bactariana, Babylonia, Susida and lower Syria.
Ancient history of rice
- History Of Hindu Dancing
The earliest civilizations discovered in the Indian subcontinent are those of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the Indus Valley, and are dated at about 6000 BC. It would appear that by that time dance had achieved a considerable measure of discipline and it...
- The History And Origin Of Mango
Native to northeast India, north western Myanmar and Bangladesh, they later spread to the rest of Asia by themselves and with the help of humans. The identification of a 65 million year old record of a leaf fossil belonging to the Mangifera in Meghalaya...
- Curry Powder In History
Curry powder is a mixture of spices of widely varying composition based on South Asian cuisine. It is a mixture of coriander, cumin and mustard seeds; red and black pepper; fenugreek and turmeric with possible additions of cinnamon and cloves and cardamoms....
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The whole history of noodles is one of innovation over the centuries. Noodles were gradually adopted by other cultures around the world. 5000 B.C Wheat flour, believed to originate in the Middle East, serves as the basis of the first “noodles.” Wheat...
- The Neolithic Era
The Neolithic Era or New Stone Age began somewhere around 10,000 BC and continued to 3,000 BC. During the Neolithic era, farming was invented. The invention did not occur all at once. In fact, it evolved gradually during these years 3500 years. The Neolithic...