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title: "Rice Domestication in the Yangtze Valley"
year: 9000
country: "China"
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startDate: "9000-01-01"
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# Rice Domestication in the Yangtze Valley

> Systematic cultivation of wild rice varieties in East Asia established agricultural economy independent of Fertile Crescent grains.

## Summary

The history of rice cultivation is an interdisciplinary subject that studies archaeological and documentary evidence to explain how rice was first domesticated and cultivated by humans, the spread of cultivation to different regions of the planet, and the technological changes that have impacted cultivation over time.

## Sources

- [Rice domestication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rice_cultivation) - Wikipedia

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