• Barly and wheat made it easier for people to survive.
• Archaeological site Draa is the earliest sophisticated civilization founded at around 11,000 years ago
• People started growing there own food.
• Domestication- When humans interfere with the growth and development of plants and animals.
• China began to farm rice.
• Corn, squash and beans started to grow in the Americas,
• People in Africa farmed sorghum, millet, and yams
• Geographic luck it also a variable in the development of civilizations
• Humans started to domesticate animals
• leftover food is used to feed the animals and we can use their dung to fertilize crops
• goats and sheep are first to be domesticated, then cows and pigs
• people in new guinea did not have strong animals
• out of 148 species, only 14 are domesticatable
• Goats
• sheep
• pigs
• cows
• horses
• donkeys
• bactrian camel
• water buffalo
• llamas
• reindeer
• Yaks
• nithans
• Bali cattle