History of Farming
History of Farming Old Techs
12,000 BC – History of Farming started with Neolithic Revolution, the first agricultural revolution, begins in the ancient Near East. The harvesting of wild cereal grasses dates to around 10,000 BC in the Middle East. It is in the Middle East, that the crucial developments occurred when cereals such as wild emmer and barley were deliberately grown and bred by humans. This breakthrough had occurred in Palestine and southern Turkey by 9000 BC. The first traces of sheep-keeping go back to around 9000 BC, in northern Iraq. Within a thousand years or so, goats, pigs and cattle had been added to the list. Once domesticated, these animals were bred to improve their usefulness to humans, and soon they were yielding not only meat for food and skin for clothing, but also milk for additional nutrition. In 7000 BC History of Farming improved with – Cultivation of wheat, sesame, barley, and eggplant in Mehrgarh (modern day Pakistan).
History of Farming New Techs
By 7000 BC, pottery was being made in Middle Eastern villages. This is an important marker, because pottery is associated with truly settled life – its weight, bulk and fragility make it unsuitable for the nomadic way of life. It also requires firing at high temperatures, a technique involving large brick-built kiln The early potters built up their pots by adding coils of clay, layer upon layer. 6800 BC – Rice domesticated in southeast Asia.
4000 BC – In Mehrgarh, the domestication of numerous crops, including peas, sesame seeds, dates, and cotton, as well as a wide range of domestic animals, including the Domestic Asian Water Buffalo, an animal that remains essential to intensive agricultural production throughout Asia today. 4000 BC – Egyptians discover how to make bread using yeast ; First use of light wooden ploughs in Mesopotamia 3500 BC – Irrigation was being used in Mesopotamia and it was big step of c. 3500 BC – First agriculture in the Americas, around Central Amazonia or Ecuador. 3000 BC – Turmeric, cardamom, pepper and mustard are harvested in the Indus Valley Civilization;Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices is in practice; Sugar produced in India. 1700 BC – Wind powered machine developed by Babylonians. 100 BC – Rotary winnowing fan invented in China. 100 BC – The multi-tube seed drill is invented in China (improve the ratio of crop yield.). AD 200 – The fishing reel invented in China. 600 – The distillation of alcohol in China. ROTARY WINNOWING FAN
In Ancient China the method was improved by mechanisation with the development of the rotary winnowing fan, which used a cranked fan toproduce the airstream. This technique was not adopted in Europe until the 1700s, when winnowing machines used a "sail fan". The rotary winnowing fan was exported to Europe, brought there by Dutch sailors between 1700 and 1720. Apparently they had obtained them from the Dutch settlement of Batavia in Java, Dutch East Indies. Until the beginning of the eighteenth century, no rotary winnowing fans existed in the West. Read the full article