{"podcast":{"title":"We're Not So Different","slug":"we-re-not-so-different-1380118","podcast_index_feed_id":1380118,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5784124/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/were-not-so-different","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6c8e140f573c0d2e0efddef5f2d06fca.jpg","author":"WNSD Pod","episode_count":281,"summary":"A mostly Medieval history podcast about how we've always been idiots patreon.com/wnsdpod welcometothecrusades.com","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T16:17:09.960252+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118"},"episode":{"title":"Medieval Land Mgmt 4: Rice Quest","slug":"medieval-land-mgmt-4-rice-quest","published_at":"2026-02-26T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118/medieval-land-mgmt-4-rice-quest","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/medieval-land-mgmt-4-rice-quest--70278189","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70278189/ep_261_mlm_4.mp3","summary":"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.","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5194,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/we-re-not-so-different-1380118/episodes/medieval-land-mgmt-4-rice-quest/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-re-not-so-different-1380118/medieval-land-mgmt-4-rice-quest.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}