Rice

Even thought there are many different foods in the world today and many that are easy to get, rice at a one time in the world was the a hot commodity. Rice is a tall grass that grows in a variety of conditions although it flourishes in wet, warm tropical climates. Rice is a food of the Old World. People who lived close to the River rivers started growing rice first in continents like Africa, India, South America and Asia. Citizens of these nations learned how to grow rice in the wet and warm conditions of the fields. The Portuguese discovery of a crop from of African rice was about to changed the world’s regional and global supply for good and created the need for African slaves in the New World.1
How did rice get to the Mediterranean regions?Do not put this question here. It is believed that some members of Alexander the Great’s army brought the Asian variety of rice back from India, which led to it’s cultivation in the Mediterranean region, including Spain and Portugal. Since that moment then, on rice many different types of rice have been grown in places such as Spain and Portugal. The Asian rice itself had so many different varieties but still these people had no idea of other variety the of rice varieties from places such as Africa or South America. Rice which was discovered in the twentieth century with it’s domestication in the continent of Africa apart from Asia. In Africa, the Portuguese came across the African rice fields from their quest in Africa to colonize and take over lands. Even thought rice was being grown in a lot of different countries in the African continent which was close to a river, the different tribes all had their own unique ways in which they would cultivate their rice. In a UC Davis publication it was described “how rice could be taken to any parts of the world because of it’s versatility and how it was able to be grown in desert conditions as well was wet conditions.”. 2 Due to the Columbian exchange, rice with other