Assertion: rice | /r/AtLocation | the caribbean
Facets:
value: by european colonizers
type: OTHER
value: at an early date
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Rice is not native to the Americas but was introduced to Latin America and the Caribbean by European colonizers at an early date with Spanish colonizers introducing Asian rice to Mexico in the 1520s at Veracruz and the Portuguese and their African slaves introducing it at about the same time to Colonial Brazil.