ok but postulating chinese called it rice first and then switched to mi but rest of world kept it as rice is a stretch
rice entered europe as oryza not all that long ago and the link to tamil arici is straightforward and heavy trade existed between rome and india such that we keep finding hoards of roman era coins in india
romans were even complaining of a trade deficit with indians and emptying of their treasury
rice entered europe as oryza not all that long ago and the link to tamil arici is straightforward and heavy trade existed between rome and india such that we keep finding hoards of roman era coins in india
romans were even complaining of a trade deficit with indians and emptying of their treasury