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Online Reference impingings Asian Crops in north-central America Linkhttp//www.hort.purdue.edu/new habilitate/history/lecture12/r_12-1.html Ginseng and Other Native root Linkhttp//attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/ginsgold.htmlginseng invoice of Ginseng Link http//www.oxford.net/ginseng/history.htm History of alfalfa in California Linkhttp//alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/publications/alfalfaHIST.htm Smooth Bromegrass Linkhttp//animalrangeextension.montana.edu/Articles/Forage/Species/Grasses/Smoothbromegrass.htm Crested Wheatgrass Linkhttp//www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-document&issn=1551-501X&volume=027& replication=01&page=0013 Native Siberian Crop SpeciesBy Francisco Aguilar, Bryan Barnsley, and Lance Nixon When it comes to plants dry land native to Siberia it would seem that there would be an extremely limited summate due to the harshness of weather, mainly the extreme cold conditions. A few of the main Siberian natives that are self-ag grandizing all over the get together States include alfalfa, lettuce, asparagus, smooth bromegrass, and crested wheatgrass. There is no proven memorialize of when alfalfa was first grown but it is known to be originated in central Asia. In 490 B.C., the Persians carried it into Greece with the invasion by Xerxes. After this the Romans who were fighting in Greece took it back to Rome in 146 B.C. The introduction into Spain was around 711 A.D. by the Moors from northern Africa who were on a conquest in Spain. From Spain it moved into France, Belgium, and England. In 1519 Alfalfa was introduced to Mexico by Cortes, a Spaniard who was on a rampage through Mexico. someplace around 18 or 19 years later, Spain rampaged again in Peru and Chili but left alfalfa here also. In that century, it was brought to the Atlantic coast line of the United States but was not used by the Indian inhabitants or by the early European settlers at this time. In about 1853 or 1854 alfalfa was introd uced into California and it was believed that it was brought in my Chili. In 1898 a man by the name of N.E. Hansen of South Dakota made a trip to Siberia in search of a more cold tolerable conversion of alfalfa because he and many other farmers were having trouble growing this crop successfully in the colder conditions of the northern portions of the United States. Alfalfa is now grown all over the United States and in other parts of the world as well.