HORTICULTURE

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: -The earliest civilizations based on intensive agriculture arose near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia (now Iraq and Iran) and along the Nile River in Egypt. For thousands of years, agricultural development was very slow. One of the earliest agricultural tools was fire.