HISA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Staple Food, Soybean, Spice Trade
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Good to think with" explore society, religion, through food. Gender one causes, men heads of the house so that they got high nutrition. Men leave first, then old women, women preparation. Children got nutrition, boy then girls eg: unicief. Staples and luxuries: staple food: grains whether rice or wheat and domestic cheap commodities, luxuries: spice rich people could afford or not accessible to ordinary people. Dries, from fields and all stable commodity, eating grain themselves cultivated: poor: substitute diet to prolong life. Eg: new technology/ gm food/ soya sauce/ italian food. Technical innovation: processing of rice: able to produce more qualified rice, processing of soya bean soya sauce: food history changed by innovation. Books: when asia was the world by stewart gorden. Area: five big cities in asia, global network, from life of this individual, not trading network, global relationship. Maps: maritime trade routes: remember places, mango lara. Global asia networks: network of trust, knowledge and information.
