c. 10,000 BCE – 9,000 BCE
Agriculture
Fertile Crescent
Agriculture
Wheat, barley, lentils and peas brought under cultivation in the Fertile Crescent.
Why it mattered
Food surplus made permanent settlement, storage, property and cities possible.
Stone Age
9,000 BCE
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c. 9,000 BCE
Agriculture
Southwest Asia
Domestication of sheep and goats
Herded flocks provide meat, milk, wool and hide on demand.
Why it mattered
Living stores of protein that could walk themselves to market.
c. 9,000 BCE
Agriculture
China
Rice domestication in the Yangtze
Communities along the middle and lower Yangtze began selecting and sowing wild rice.
Why it mattered
Created the staple that would feed more people than any other crop.
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