Origins Of Food

By Sasha.G
  • 13,000 BCE

    Domestication of Animals

    Dogs were the first animal to be domesticated by humans more than 13000 years ago
  • 9000 BCE

    Fertile Cresent

    The first Cultivation of wild cereals in the fertile crescent
  • 9000 BCE

    Development Of Agriculture

    The Birth of Agriculture. In 9000 BCE people in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq, began breeding plants and animals found in nature to make them edible.
  • 8000 BCE

    Food Origins -Bread/Cereals

    Cereals and bread became a staple food around 10,000 years ago during the Neolithic, when wheat and barley were some of the first plants to be domesticated
  • 8000 BCE

    Food Origins -Milk

    It took the domestication of cattle, following on the heels of sheep and goats, to put the ancient dairy industry into motion and a quirk of genetics to move it along. Dairy got its start in what is now Turkey
  • 5500 BCE

    Food Origins -Cheese

    The earliest evidence of cheesemaking in the archaeological record dates back to 5500 BCE
  • 1214 BCE

    Marco Pollo

    was a Venetian merchant and explorer who travelled to China and served the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. who then was imprisoned he shortly wrote his book about his travels and discoveries.
  • 130 BCE

    Silk Road Systems

    The Silk Road is neither an actual road nor a single route. The term instead refers to a network of routes used by traders for more than 1,500 years

  • Food Origins - Meat

    Early man hunted wild animals for meat. Domestication of meat animals followed. The species utilised for meat varied, based on availability of different animals in different regions.