Our Lives Matter S1E22:  Geography and the Spread of Farming

Episode 22 April 25, 2024 00:26:11
Our Lives Matter S1E22:  Geography and the Spread of Farming
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Our Lives Matter S1E22:  Geography and the Spread of Farming

Apr 25 2024 | 00:26:11

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Show Notes

Farming was developed first in the Middle East, about 10,000 years ago.  It was developed in China 1,000 years later, and in three parts of the Americas several thousands of years later.   The environmental conditions of the Middle East at the time made it the most favorable environment in the world for people to develop farming.  Several geographical factors fit together to make it the easiest place in the world for people to figure out how to domesticate plants and animals, and made it the easiest place in the world for people to produce food.   That combination of…

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