INTRODUCTION TO FOOD TECHNOLOGY
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY
Question
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Africa
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China
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Multiple hearths
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Fertile Crescent
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is believed that the first agricultural hearth was the Fertile Crescent, located in the Middle East. Other ancient agricultural hearths emerged in Southeast and East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Mesoamerica (Valley of Mexico and northern South America).
Detailed explanation-2: -The “First Agricultural Revolution, ‘’ also called the “Neolithic Revolution” first took place in a region of the modern-day Middle East called “Mesopotamia” or “The Fertile Crescent.” This occurred roughly ten thousand years ago.
Detailed explanation-3: -About 12, 000 years ago, one of the first attempts at farming began in the Fertile Crescent, the Levant region of the Near East that includes the interior areas of present-day Turkey, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Turkmenistan, and Asia Minor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Agricultural communities developed approximately 10, 000 years ago when humans began to domesticate plants and animals. By establishing domesticity, families and larger groups were able to build communities and transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle dependent on foraging and hunting for survival.