High Middle Ages · East Asia · Technology
1000
Song Dynasty advances in rice cultivation
1000
Farmers across southern China adopted fast-ripening Champa rice strains imported from Vietnam, enabling two harvests per year on the same paddy. The agricultural revolution doubled food production and triggered a population explosion that would push China past a hundred million people within a century, fueling the urbanization, commerce, and invention that made the Song the richest dynasty on earth.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.