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It later spread to Europe and East Asia with farmers in both areas later selecting for larger leaves; it subsequently became an important food in the Hellenistic and Roman world. [5] The turnip spread to China, and reached Japan by 700 CE. [5] Turnips were an important crop in the cuisine of Antebellum America.
Edible turnips were possibly first cultivated in northern Europe, and were an important food in ancient Rome. [11] The turnip then spread east to China, and reached Japan by 700 AD. [11] In the 18th century, the turnip and the oilseed-producing variants were thought to be different species by Carl Linnaeus, who named them B. rapa and B. campestris.
The prairie turnip is more nutritious than most root crops, containing about 7 percent protein, more than 50 percent carbohydrates, and is rich in vitamins and trace minerals. Particularly important was the vitamin C content of 17.1 milligrams per 100 grams as the winter meat-rich diet of the Plains Indians was often deficient in vitamin C. [ 8 ...
It gradually spread across North America and to South America and was the most important crop of Native Americans at the time of European exploration. [119] Other Mesoamerican crops include hundreds of varieties of locally domesticated squash and beans , while cocoa , also domesticated in the region, was a major crop. [ 72 ]
The Turnip Winter (German: Steckrübenwinter, pronounced [ˈʃtɛkʁyːbn̩ˌvɪntɐ]) of 1916 to 1917 was a period of profound civilian hardship in Germany during World War I. Introduction [ edit ]
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The term turnip is also used for the white turnip (Brassica rapa ssp rapa). [6] [8] Some will also refer to both swede and (white) turnip as just turnip (this word is also derived from næp). [8] In north-east England, turnips and swedes are colloquially called snannies snadgers, snaggers (archaic) or narkies. [9]
First was the fall of the western Roman Empire which began to lose territory to foreign ‘barbarian’ invaders about the year 400. The last western Roman emperor abdicated in 476. [ 1 ] Thereafter, the lands and people of the former western Roman Empire would be divided among different ethnic groups, whose rule was often ephemeral and ...