Ch 1. Intro Flashcards
10000 Bce
Wild wheat harvested in Palestine
8000 bce
Wheat. Barley. And legumes grown in Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Mid East. Sheep domesticated
7000 bce
Goats and pigs domestics In turkey and Pakistan
6200 bce
Farming begins west Europe and middle region
4500 bce
Plowing using cattle in lower Danube
500 bce
Wet rice farming begins Japan
300 bce
Rice trading btw China and Mid East
600 CE
Coffee grown and transported from Ethiopia to Yemen
Influences that determine diet
Geography and environmental factors
1800 bc - 1280 bc
Chinese dynasties
? - 1625 bc
Minoans (Crete in Mediterranean Sea)
1500-1100 bc
Mycenaeans (Greek,Crete,Sicily,Troy)
1200-612 bc
Assyrians (Turkey,Babylon , Syria)
700bc - 300 bc
Greeks
612-331 bc
Achaemenid empire
350bc -1200 CE
Mayan empire(yucatan to Guatemala )
?-1453 CE
Roman Empire
1206 CE - 1405 CE
Mongols (Mid East,Central Asia , China, Eastern Europe)
12000 bce
Upper Egypt grindstones used to make flour
Today’s food scare
Lack of food known as food insecurity
Food agriculture organization
United Nations monitors food