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10,000 BCE
cattle/ food and tools
hunter-gatherer ancestors pursued for food, tools, and leather, and which farmers raised for the past 10,000 years or so as livestock for meat, milk, and as draft animals. -
9000 BCE
cattle/ started
Cattle domestication started in the 9,000,000 BC in Southwest Asia. -
8000 BCE
cattle/ started
Evidence of cattle domestication in Mesopotamia as early as 8000 B.C.E. -
3000 BCE
cattle
milking of a dairy cows did not become a major part of Sumerian civilization until approximately the year of 3000 B.C.E. -
3000 BCE
cattle/used for
3000 BC Ancient Sumerians made cow's milk into cheese and butter. -
2000 BCE
cattle/ started
By 2000 B.C.E,the domesticated cow had appeared in Northern India and the Aryan nomads. -
450 BCE
cattle/ started
In Ancient Egypt, the domesticated cow played a major role in Egyptian agriculture and spirituality in their belief or religion. -
1491
cattle/ used for
cattle were used for many purposes including meat, milk, and labor. -
1493
cattle/ started
Cattle were first brought to the western hemisphere by Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1493. -
1519
cattle/ started
Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez took offspring of those same cattle to Mexico in 1519. -
1525
cattle/ started
The first cattle arrived in the Americas in 1525 at Vera Cruz, Mexico. -
cattle/ started
In 1773, Juan Bautista de Anza brought 200 head of cattle to California to supply the early California missions. -
cattle/ used for
4000 BC, Neolithic British and Northern European farmers began milking cattle. -
cattle
cattle are the descendants from a single herd of wild ox from over 10,500 years ago. ... Neolithic British and Northern European farmers began milking cattle. -
cattle/ started
People started domesticating aurochs between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago. Cattle were domesticated after sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs.