HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -People first domesticated plants about 10, 000 years ago, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia (which includes the modern countries of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria).

Detailed explanation-2: -Four important livestock taxa were domesticated in southwest Asia in the early Neolithic: sheep, goat, cattle, and pigs. Although the origins of the management of these taxa were broadly contemporaneous, they each follow distinctive and independent trajectories.

Detailed explanation-3: -Agriculture is thought to have begun about 10 000 years ago in the ‘Fertile Crescent’, a region of Southwest Asia comprising the plains of Mesopotamia, the deserts of Syria and Palestine, and some of the mountainous areas to the east of Anatolia.