Arab Agricultural Revolution
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The Arab Agricultural Revolution was the transformation in agriculture in the Old World during the Islamic Golden Age. The agronomic literature of the time, with major books by Ibn Bassal and Ibn al-'
The Arabs transformed agriculture during the Islamic Golden Age by spreading major crops and techniques such as irrigation across the Old World.
Village scene with poultry, sheep and goats from a copy of the Maqamat al-Hariri illustrated by al-Wasiti, 1237
Arab sheep herders, by Antonio Leto
The ancient Bahr Yussef canal connects the Fayyum depression to the River Nile some 25 km away.
Banana
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A banana is an elongated, edible fruit that is botanically a berry produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are cal
Arab Agricultural Revolution
…some early scepticism, such as from the historian Jeremy Johns in 1984. Johns argued that Watson's selection of 18 plants was "peculiar", since the banana, coconut, mango and pomelo were unimportant in the Islamic region at the time, detracting from the discussion of the staple crops. Johns further noted…
Fruits of four different cultivars. Left to right: plantain, red banana, apple banana, and Cavendish banana
A corm, about 25 cm (10 in) across
Young plant
Female flowers have petals at the tip of the ovary