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Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris.

This is episode 16 The Spread of Farming. Oh, Last time on the history of the world podcast we investigated the emergence of agriculture

and the how and why humans were domesticating wild weeds to create domesticated cereals and wild sheep and goats into their more

domesticated animal state. All of this took place in the fertile crescent, an area of land following the Tigris and Euphrates rivers up as far as the tourist mountains and then down the Mediterranean coast through the Leavant and on to the Nile Delta.

We suggested that the world Muflon was bought under human control to become the first domesticated sheep, while the

Bezawa Ipex was chose to begin a journey towards becoming the first domesticated goat.

All of this is likely to have happened between 10,000 B.C. and 8,000 B.C.

as archaeological and DNA evidence points us towards these facts.

Other animals that would have been domesticated in the same area of the world

would have included the wild boar which was selected to become the domestic pig.

Scientists have traditionally suggested that this happened in around 7000 b.C.E. They would have been popular for their

wealth of meat that they provided to their hungry farming tribal group. However there has been some study in recent years that has gained

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