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Recently heard in a video about Babylonia that a date plantation was up to 4x more productive in calories than a comparable wheat plantation, tho took 7 years to mature. Were there any societies whose staple food was derived from silvoculture? Or more broadly, not from grasses or tubers?

by /u/pizza-flusher in /r/AskHistorians

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