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Quote: from jakelong at 9:57 pm on Oct. 17, 2008

Bread. Yeah that one is true actually, Thats the big difference, Most nonwhites are more into rice or flatbread.

Wheat cultivation is perhaps the single most defining thing of European agriculture.

Potato came from south america.

Indeed, which I mentioned. It was exported all over the world and allowed population booms everywhere, from Europe to India to China as potatoes were among the most hardy crops which could grow darn near anywhere.

Still, despite its origins in the New World, that doesn't mean that mashed potatoes hasn't been made into a staple food of Europeans, or more broadly, whites.

Beef is common in asia and africa. Its not there as much because it is costly in terms of how much output you get for the input. But it used to be not as common in europe either. The biggest consumers of beef are in the US, Brazil Japan and China.

I'm talking about throughout history, which has certainly left an indent on it today.

If you look at the agriculture in the Classical Era, you'll notice that Greek and Roman civilization was based far more on urban centers and cattle farming than China and India, which were based primarily on crop farming. Of course, Greece and Rome still primarily farmed crops, but they had a lot more cattle than anywhere else.

In the Middle Ages, this remained. It was passed onto the Europeans, Byzantines, and Muslims to a good extent as well. So cattle farming, and thus beef, pork, and the like aren't exclusively European, but they're still staple products for Europeans.

Only more recently has places like China began to "farm" cattle and chickens.

Lamb has always been a big thing in the Middle East.

Yeah, I'd say it's bigger over there than it is here, but in the past, it was still an important European food. Not so much today, though, I suppose.

Wine from grapes used to be common in the Middle east before Islam. It comes from the Middle East in fact.

Of course. I believe it was first cultivated and fermented in modern Lebanon, Georgia, and around that area (the western part of the Middle East). From there, Greece picked up on it. Since grapes could grow all over southern Europe, it became wildly popular - more so than in the Middle East. It would probably be more popular in the Middle East today, too, if Islam didn't prohibit the consumption of alcohol.

Still, though, if you think of where all the good wine comes from, it's always in Europe, and perhaps California, although most modern Europeans would talk smack about Californian wine.

But bread in loaves (NOT flatbread) that's really much more European and white I agree.

I've read studies that cultivating wheat instead of rice has been a major factor in Europe's development with land and machines, and for Asia, its emphasis on hard work for cultivating rice.

After all, the amount you get from rice really depends on how much work you put into it. The harder you work on the rice, the more you'll get out of it. So only a small amount of land was needed with lots of labor to work on it. Many speculate that this is why places like China and India haven't been historically as expansionist as Europe and the Middle East which cultivated primarily wheat, and why rural populations tend to be more densely populated.

Wheat, on the other hand, doesn't matter how much work you put into it. You have to put in some work of course, but there's a limit. In order to get more wheat, you'd have to expand.

Also, with things like the windmill to make bread, it really saves labor. Supposedly without having to do all the extra work that you would have to do with rice, Europeans had leisure time to think about how to produce wheat and other things more efficiently, and hence make more machines. I'm pretty skeptical on that point, though, because in China they made pretty impressive machines that would control the water level and everything for wet rice farming (in mainly southern China), which produced far greater yields than dry rice farming (in mainly northern China) during the Middle Ages.

Post edited at 10:14 pm on Oct. 17, 2008 by Bud2400

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