9. The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Origins of Food
Each delicious food we know to day began as an ancestor that was much more unpalatable, much less nutritious and much more difficult to digest. The banana is just one of countless examples. It began in south east asia as an unrecognizable wild species with bluish green skin and many large, hard seeds. But over millennia, desperate hunter gatherers would have picked the ones that were most bearable to eat and taken them home. Their settlements grew until the early cradles of civilization, like the indus valley, egypt and mesopotamia, burst into the light of history around seven thousand years ago.
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