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I was thinking what would the effect have been if Soybean made it to Europe and the Middle East much earlier. I was thinking between 800-1500. Soybean fill the same farming niche as peas and clover as a nitrate fixating crop. But it also produce more useful crop.
What would the effect of the earlier introduction be?