8000+BCE+-+600+BCE+Ancient+Civilizations

until people started farming. After farming was introduced to the daily lives
of so many, it allowed civilizations to form and different methods of creating and storing food were

time to think of the world they live in.
Region affected most by food: Mesopotamia

c. 8000 BCE Wheat and grains at first, were seasonal plants. Nomadic groups did not farm and gathered these plants at the same time every year. Farming was introduced by accident when the gatherers did not pick up the seeds and left them there. They would return next year to find that those seeds grew into wheat. c. 7000 BCE - 5000 BCE With the rapid introduction and diffusion of farming, nomads started to settle down and form bigger groups. Tribes became villages, villages became towns, and towns became civilizations. The surplus in food allows more people to be fed and also serves as a currency. With more time on their hands, people began to experiment with wheat and grains.

c. 7000 BCE - 5000 BCE Just what would people do with such a surplus of food? sometimes they would trade and often times, it would go to waste. But this waste actually was a primitive version of today's beer. So in a sense, this food: Wheat, indirectly causes the discovery of beer, completely changes the way people act (corrupts people when they are intoxicated), caused the need for storage granaries, which led to a need for religious leaders to regulate the supply. This also created a need for keeping track of things (record keeping; writing)

Region affected by food: China c. 6000 BCE Rice is already being harvested heavily and turned into wine at times. Rice was harvested in Southern China due to the harsher climate and geography of the Northern land.This shows that the Chinese were well educated in the areas of their geography and were able to adapt to the hilly terrain. Sometimes known as terrace farming. With so much hard work, this truly shows the morals and ethics of these people.

c. 6000 BCE The methods for cooking were relatively complex when compared to the methods used in Mesopotamia. With limited forests, there is a lack of firewood and so, the people of China adapted. Their food was often cut into smaller pieces so that it would cook faster. Also, Chinese foods had to please the visual and smell senses. Imagine how developed the culture must be in order for there to be a necessity of visual and smell pleasure. I can directly relate with this because all of the foods i eat are aesthetically pleasing.

c. 5500 BCE Chinese people were eating pieces of domesticated Chicken with their rice on special occasions if they could afford it. With domestication beginning to occur, it is only natural that this must mean societies are getting larger and the demand for food is higher. Surprisingly, the chickens diffused from thailand via trade.

c. 4000 BCE Pork was eaten daily.

In general as more time passes by, China slowly cultivates and harvests more and more crops. This diversity of foods allows for many opportunities of diffusion and also thousands of different foods based on the culture, geography, and technology of the people.

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