HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC
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domestication of millet
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domestication of maize
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domestication of pigs and sheep
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domestication of wheat and barley
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Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest physical evidence for domesticated maize, what some cultures call corn, dates to at least 8, 700 calendar years ago, and it was probably domesticated by indigenous peoples in the lowland areas of southwestern Mexico, not the highland areas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Corn was originally domesticated in Mexico by native peoples by about 9, 000 years ago. They used many generations of selective breeding to transform a wild teosinte grass with small grains into the rich source of food that is modern Zea mays.
Detailed explanation-3: -Maize was domesticated from the wild grass (Z. mays subsp. parviglumis) about 9000 years ago in the Balsas region of southwest Mexico (Fig.
Detailed explanation-4: -Guilá Naquitz Cave has now yielded the earliest macrofossil evidence for the domestication of two major American crop plants, squash (Cucurbita pepo) and maize.