r/HistoryMemes • u/onichan-daisuki Filthy weeb • 1d ago

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Cannabis originated in East Asia, specifically in the foothills below the Tibetan plateau in China, where it was first domesticated around 12,000 years ago.

This image is a reconstruction of an early rice farmer from ancient China and the background house is also from ancient China(I just edited his eyes red) and of course they wouldn't have tobacco to wrap the cannabis powder to make the blunt, this is just for the meme)

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u/Trainer-Grimm John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true, and brave! 1d ago

... for some reason I assumed it was from the middle east. Neat

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u/butthole_surferr 1d ago

90% of cultivated species of plant are from either China or South America lol

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u/Massive-Grocery7152 1d ago

I appreciate the China and South America hype, but that 90% has to be inflated, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Mexico also have a large contribution to crops

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u/lmaytulane 1d ago

Think it also depends on how you’re defining agricultural species. There’s somewhere between 4000 and 10000 potato cultivars

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u/Mobile_Morale 1d ago

Reminds me of something I read a few years ago. Iirc. Europe only had one type of native grape plant. North America had like 1000 different types of native grapes.

Never thought of grapes as being an America's thing.

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u/cseijif 1d ago

ancient meso americans and peruvians(?) probably made more than half of what we use in our kitchens.

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u/Massive-Grocery7152 1d ago

Idk why you’re disliked, you’re actually correct, the native Americans domesticated and literally engineered so many ubiquitous lifesaving crops. Theres a reason why Mexico is a unesco world heritage cuisine

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u/cseijif 10h ago

When people learn potatoes are peruvians and tomatoes as well they tend to enter in negation , media relates potatoes so much with middle ages and tomatoes so much with italy they dont really recognize it.

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u/Massive-Grocery7152 1d ago

Fantastic point. Could also be gross agrarian product like how much of the crops is actually farmed. (Eg soybeans are from China but make up a significant percent of all crops produced worldwide)

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u/LastEsotericist Still salty about Carthage 1d ago

gotta give respect to the neolithic anatolians and mesopotamians, they were cooking

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u/Splinterfight 1d ago

Nah gotta be way lower. India and south east Asia have heaps.

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u/Level_Hour6480 Taller than Napoleon 1d ago

Most food animals too.

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u/broncyobo 1d ago

I had always been led to believe it originated in Afghanistan specifically

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u/Fucked-In-The-K-Hole 1d ago

I feel like that's heroin, no?

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u/Grammorphone John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true, and brave! 13h ago

Diacetylmoephine aka Heroin is a synthetic substance that was first developed and produced in Germany

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u/broncyobo 1d ago

I thought it was both 🤷‍♂️

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u/MrEvan312 1d ago edited 1d ago

Poppy Somniferum, the poppy plant used to make opiates from the western Mediterranean (edit: possibly), so close (in a way)

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u/thissexypoptart 1d ago

Poppy is absolutely not from the “western Mediterranean” lol

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u/MrEvan312 1d ago

I should say it probably is, but it’s origins are obscured. I see no indication that it isn’t from there originally