Anonymous ID: 14e27d April 17, 2021, 6:57 p.m. No.13450831   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#History

 

The first known cultivation of opium poppies was in Mesopotamia, approximately 3400 BC, by Sumerians, who called the plant hul gil, the "joy plant". Tablets found at Nippur, a Sumerian spiritual center south of Baghdad, described the collection of poppy juice in the morning and its use in production of opium. Cultivation continued in the Middle East by the Assyrians, who also collected poppy juice in the morning after scoring the pods with an iron scoop; they called the juice aratpa-pal, possibly the root of Papaver. Opium production continued under the Babylonians and Egyptians.

 

Between 400 and 1200 AD, Arab traders introduced opium to China, and to India by 700.

 

Soldiers returning home from the Crusades in the 11th to 13th century brought opium with them. Opium is said to have been used for recreational purposes from the 14th century onwards in Muslim societies.