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Asked by Brooke from USA | Jan. 07, 2016 10:44

About:Culture of Silk Road

Around what time period were grapes, clover, walnuts, carrots, peppers, etc. introduced to China?

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Answered by Grace from New Zealand | Jan. 07, 2016 21:18

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Brooke, grapes, walnuts and carrots should be introduced during the Western Han Dynasty, to be precise, after Zhang Qian discovered the Silk Road. However, pepper came at the end of the sixteenth century.

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