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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.
A Wichita village surrounded by fields of maize and other crops. Gathering wild plants, such as the prairie turnip (Pediomelum esculentum, syn. Psoralea esculenta) and chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) for food was undoubtedly a practice of Indian societies on the Great Plains since their earliest habitation 13,000 or more years ago. [3]
Spanish armies and workers adopted the crop as a staple because of the relative ease associated with its production. Peasants also adopted the crop as the 16th century progressed. The potato continued to spread rapidly throughout Europe where, by the 19th century, it had replaced the turnip and rutabaga as the principal food staples. [11]
Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as jícama (/ ˈ h ɪ k ə m ə / or / dʒ ɪ ˈ k ɑː m ə /; [1] Spanish jícama ⓘ; from Nahuatl xīcamatl, [ʃiːˈkamatɬ]) or Mexican turnip, is a native Mesoamerican vine, although the name jícama most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous root. It is in the pea family (Fabaceae).
Epidemics, possibly of smallpox, spread from Central America, devastated the population of the Inca Empire a few years before the arrival of the Spanish. [55] The ravages of Old World diseases and Spanish exploitation reduced the Mexican population from an estimated 20 million to barely more than a million in the 16th century.
It spread from northern Italy into Germany and beyond, becoming an important staple in the Habsburg monarchy (especially Hungary and Austria) by the late 17th century. Its spread started in southern France in 1565, and by the start of the 18th century it was the main food source of central and southern French peasants (it was more popular as ...
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]