HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest known domesticated wheat, barley, and rice crops are thought to have originated in Asia about: 10, 000 years ago. Seed agriculture probably reached Europe from: Southwest Asia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first domesticated plants in Mesopotamia were wheat, barley, lentils, and types of peas. People in other parts of the world, including eastern Asia, parts of Africa, and parts of North and South America, also domesticated plants.

Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest agriculture in South Asia can be found along the western tributaries of the Indus River, at aceramic settlements like Mehrgarh. Towards the middle Ganges plains there is clear evidence of a strongly indigenous Neolithic tradition, which included the development of rice cultivation and eventual sedentism.