# Medieval Land Mgmt 4: Rice Quest

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Podcast: [We're Not So Different](https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118)
Published: 2026-02-26T07:00:03+00:00
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## Resource

folks, in our 4th episode on Medieval Land Management, we talk about more types of farming. this time, moving to Asia and the Americas to talk the 2 other great Medieval staple crops: rice and maize. we begin in China where rice was domesticated and turned from a dry and crop into a semi-aquatic one about 6,000 years ago. we talk about the spread of rice, how rice paddies work, and how the Song Dynasty used Champa rice to experience a population boom. then we turn to the Americas to talk about maize, its domestication from tiosente, the Three Sisters agricultural program and the milpa system.

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