List of crops domesticated around 0 to 1750 A.D?

Question

List of crops domesticated around 0 to 1750 A.D?

Answer 1

I answer this the other day, spending a lot of time on it, but for some reason it was not entered. The short version is that by 1750 all of the foods we use today were domesticated. i can not think of a single one that wasn't. Many foods were not yet in international use as we still were moving around in old ships, the height of technology then. All they we consider staples were embraced by the local populations and would then spread out as sea transport improved and later, land and air transport sped up the process. Bananas came to the US first threw Massachusetts by ships to the old United Fruit Company from tropical regions in the 1800, but still had been for quite some time, popular in their countries of origin. In the same Massachusetts area cranberries (Crane berries) were getting big with the discovery by a local sea captain that sand blowing from the dunes help considerably in the increased production, soon to be a profitable one. That was a bit after the date of 1750, but not by much if at all. Still it was a local fruit used by native Americans for centuries and colonists when they first came to old Plymouth. So, the long history of the potato, coming from South America to Spain, then threw Europe and the resulting crop failure and famine in Ireland which sent a huge wave of migration to the Northern US brought the potato back to the continent, where it then went south and back to it's home land. Still, it was a staple in Peru and in the region for centuries before. So, in short, all foods were in cultivation by 1750 somewhere with a sizable population. It was at that time that the real movement of those foods with their native populations spread around the globe, to share those foods/ cultures as the people migrated.

Answer 2

I reckon that most of the plants we eat today were being domesticated about that time in history. They wouldn't be in the form we have them in today, that has come from years of selection and breeding way back to when farming first started which would be back before the time you mentioned.

Answer 3

There is evidence of many crops being domesticated during this age. Wheat, rice, millet, cassava, maize, sunflower, squash, (two crops that were domesticated during this time that are no longer being grown) marshelder, and chenopod.