In which year food production began in Southwestern Asia
Options are:
A. 30,000-12000 years ago
B. 9000 B.C.E
C. 100,000 years ago
Answers
The Answer is A. 30000 - 12000 years ago.
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Agriculture began to emerge in western Asia c. 10,000 years ago. It remains the earliest attested appearance of agriculture anywhere in the world. Some of our most basic, daily food staples – e.g. wheat, barley, peas, and lentils – as well as many of our farm animals, such as cattle, pigs and sheep, spread from southwest Asia into Europe between 7,000 – 4,000 BCE. Although this process was once described as the 'Neolithic Revolution', we now know that it actually took thousands of years to go from the first tentative steps in plant cultivation to the appearance of larger villages that were completely dependent on domesticated plants and livestock.
The consequences of this economic shift for human societies were fundamental: unprecedented population growth, deforestation and over exploitation of agricultural land, emergence of social hierarchies, and appearance of the first organised religions and the advent of commutable diseases can all be traced back to the switch from hunting and gathering to farming. Some climate scientists have even traced back the origins of humanly induced global warming to an increase in greenhouse gasses caused by the establishment of large rice paddies in eastern Asia 8,000 years ago. Although we understand the consequences the emergence of food production quite well, archaeologists continue to debate the causes of why this critical change occurred in the first place.