
Vol 1 Ep 16 - The spread of agriculture
History of the World podcast
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The Evolution of Agriculture in the Northern Tropical Africa Region
As we head west across the eurasian land mass, we find domestication of gaa and buffalo. China and the far east mastered the cultivation of millet as a serial crop. And also the wild jungle fowl was domesticated to become what we know in the modern world as the chicken. Northern tropical africa region demonstrates agricultural advances of yams, rice and millet. None of these crops are associated with the fertile crescent. In the neolithic, the important aspect, once again, is climate. We have clearly demonstrated over the course of the podcast series that humankind had the cognative skill to understand its environment well enough to understand the ultimate value of patient planning and resource
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