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Chickpeas spread from Anatolia to India

The pulse is one of the earliest cultivated crops in the Near East Chickpeas were gathered and then farmed in the region that is now Turkey and Syria, with archaeological finds dating back around seven and a half thousand years. They travelled east along trade routes to the Indian subcontinent, where they became the base of dal and gram flour, and west into the Mediterranean. The plant fixes nitrogen in the soil, which helps the next crop. It sits in Mondo's food collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The pulse is one of the earliest cultivated crops in the Near East. The figure is taken from Food and Agriculture Organization, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a food fact?: Yes. It sits on the Food shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.