HORT 3430 Quiz: HORT 3340 open D1
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A conquering army would bring perennial plants that would require permanent plantations to become useful because it has value as a trade item. History of grapes point that grapes are highly domesticated, and have easy settlement. Black sea and further east of caspian sea which bordered northern. Turkey, north iraq, azerbaijan, and georgia. these grape vines emerged due to local presence and the association of wine with gods. This creates value and an early strategic imperative for trades (sweeney: c. , & soutar, g. n. 2001). Due to these associations they were protected during the dark ages and thrived once the development of city states into the middle ages. Grapes grew well in warm sunny areas of southern europe, and became the centre of wine production. Travellers then began to sell wine to spain and portugal and the british. The british had naval power and allowed the exportation of wine and grapes to exist .