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