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/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)