Sometime around 9 to 11,000 years ago, somewhere in the Middle East or Central Asia,

someone figured out how they could keep wild sheep and breed them.

This simple act had enormous consequences for humanity.

It improved food production, revolutionized the production of clothing, and even influence the development of writing.

Fast forward over 10,000 years, and sheep are still a significant part of the economies of several nations.

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Sometime about 11,000 years ago, there was a revolution that forever changed humanity.

That date of 11,000 years ago should sound familiar to anyone who has listened to this podcast for a while. That was the period at the end of the last Ice Age when agriculture,

animal domestication, and civilization as we know it began to arise. It's far enough in the past

that we don't know many details about where these innovations developed, but we do have a rough

idea based on archaeological evidence. It's believed that the first animals that

were domesticated as livestock were actually goats. The first goats were probably domesticated

around 10 to 11,000 years ago in the Zargoos Mountains of Iran. Goats are fundamentally

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