The Origin's of Agriculture

By Bellarosed111
  • Period: 14,000 BCE to

    The Origins of Agriculture

  • 13,000 BCE

    Domestication of animals

    Most of the domestic animals familiar to us today were domesticated not long after people began farming and living in permanent settlements, between 8000 and 2500 BC. Example: Domestic dogs are descended from wolves
  • 9000 BCE

    Development Of Agriculture

    Agricultural communities developed approximately 10,000 years ago when humans began to domesticate plants and animals.The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture, also known as the Neolithic Revolution, was the most important factor in the development of agriculture and Neolithic people.
  • 7500 BCE

    Fertile Crescent

    The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University of Chicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, refers to a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia. Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world's earliest civilizations.
  • 5500 BCE

    When Was Milk And Cheese Made

    The earliest evidence of cheesemaking in the archaeological record dates back to 5500 BCE and is found in what is now Kuyavia, Poland, where strainers coated with milk-fat molecules have been found. Cheesemaking may have begun independently of this by the pressing and salting of curdled milk to preserve it.
  • 130 BCE

    Silk Road

    The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers, it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the East and West.
  • 1271

    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo was a Venetian explorer who lived during the late Middle Ages. He is known for his travels throughout Asia, which he described in a book that became very popular and inspired later exploration.

  • worldwild food systems

    The Iron Age and the Roman Empire brought expanding empires and the beginning of global food systems, including regional specialisation in products traded throughout empires. Food systems began to be organised on a grand scale to feed larger cities and fuel local economies.