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Around 15000 years ago, the domestication of animals started with a dog as a commensal and after this, people would start taming other animals for domestication and travel. -
After people started planting crops and breeding animals, agriculture started 12,000 years ago when humans had to rely on the earth to give food or animals. After gathering seeds, they would plant and grow crops to add to the food table. -
Bread first started around 14500 years ago in the middle east of Egypt. Around 10,000 BC, with the dawn of the Neolithic age and the spread of agriculture, grains became the mainstay of making bread. -
Food systems emerged with the dawn of civilization when agriculture, including the domestication of animals, set the stage for permanent settlements. This changed human culture; unlike earlier hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists did not need to be in constant motion to find new sources of food. -
The fertile crescent was started in the 9000 BCE when agriculture started to be the main food gathering and source. Goats, sheep, cattle and pigs where a major dot point in the fertile crescent as well as starting to plant and grow plants. -
Milk was first discovered around 9000 BC during the Neolithic Revolution or the development of agriculture. Humans first learnt around this time that milk was something you can drink as a source of drink/thirst. -
Domestication of cattle happened around 8000 BC, and that is when beef consumption really took off. After people tamed and slaughtered some cows, they found out that the meat inside of some animals were edible therefore can be used for protein and hunger. -
The silk road was a network of paths connecting civilizations in the East and West that was well travelled for approximately 1,400 years. Food and businesses would go on this path to seek money and for other countries to start their agriculture. -
Marco Polo was born around the 15th of September, 1254 in Venice, Italy. His mothers name was Niccole Anna Defush, and his father was called Niccolò Polo. -
Marco Polo was around 17 to 18 when he first went on his journey from Venice to the furthest part of Mongol Empire. Living among the emperor's dominions, with his father and uncle, as an advisor and emissary for 16 or 17 years, then returning back to his hometown of Venice by ship and on land.