Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Wheat: basic foodstuff of mankind / domesticated in SW Asia


Wheat
Originally uploaded by Macco Macclesfield
Today I passed out bits of wheat flat bread, one of mankind's oldest snacks. It was, in effect, Biblical bread.

It is symbolic of our study of the Middle East.

When was wheat domesticated? That means when was it cultivated and harvested as opposed to simply gathered from the wild?

What was it about the domesticatrion of wheat that led to the rise of cities and laws?

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