Posted by: Juggy May 12, 2013
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Just for your reference, and this comes from top of the google search of "cotton" refering to wikipedia.
"....Cotton was first cultivated in the Old World 7,000 years ago (5th millennium BCE), by the inhabitants of Indus Valley civilization. Evidence of cotton cultivation has been found at the site of Mehrgarh, where early cotton threads have been preserved in copper beads.[4] Cotton cultivation became more widespread during the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered a huge swath of the northwestern part of the South Asia, comprising today parts of eastern Pakistan and northwestern India.[5] The Indus cotton industry was well developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the modern industrialization of India.[6] Between 2000 and 1000 BCE cotton became widespread in much of India.[7] For example, it has been found at the site of Hallus in Karnataka around 1000 BCE. The use of cotton textiles had spread from India to the Mediterranean and beyond.[8]....."
".....During the late medieval period, cotton became known as an imported fiber in northern Europe, without any knowledge of how it was derived, other than that it was a plant; noting its similarities to wool, people in the region could only imagine that cotton must be produced by plant-borne sheep. John Mandeville, writing in 1350, stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie [sic]." (SeeVegetable Lamb of Tartary.) This aspect is retained in the name for cotton in many European languages, such as German Baumwolle, which translates as "tree wool" (Baum means "tree"; Wollemeans "wool"). By the end of the 16th century, cotton was cultivated throughout the warmer regions in Asia and the Americas....."
Just helping out a fellow Nepali, who is little inferior from "whites"; may fair and handsome bless you. :-)
Just for your reference, and this comes from top of the google search of "cotton" refering to wikipedia.
"....Cotton was first cultivated in the Old World 7,000 years ago (5th millennium BCE), by the inhabitants of Indus Valley civilization. Evidence of cotton cultivation has been found at the site of Mehrgarh, where early cotton threads have been preserved in copper beads.[4] Cotton cultivation became more widespread during the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered a huge swath of the northwestern part of the South Asia, comprising today parts of eastern Pakistan and northwestern India.[5] The Indus cotton industry was well developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the modern industrialization of India.[6] Between 2000 and 1000 BCE cotton became widespread in much of India.[7] For example, it has been found at the site of Hallus in Karnataka around 1000 BCE. The use of cotton textiles had spread from India to the Mediterranean and beyond.[8]....."
".....During the late medieval period, cotton became known as an imported fiber in northern Europe, without any knowledge of how it was derived, other than that it was a plant; noting its similarities to wool, people in the region could only imagine that cotton must be produced by plant-borne sheep. John Mandeville, writing in 1350, stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie [sic]." (SeeVegetable Lamb of Tartary.) This aspect is retained in the name for cotton in many European languages, such as German Baumwolle, which translates as "tree wool" (Baum means "tree"; Wollemeans "wool"). By the end of the 16th century, cotton was cultivated throughout the warmer regions in Asia and the Americas....."
Just helping out a fellow Nepali, who is little inferior from "whites"; may fair and handsome bless you. :-)
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