Animal Domestication and Crop raising!

[jgk3]

well, if we had all these guys domesticated 10000 years ago (the numbers signify years BC)...

why not eshes by the time you (Turks) came?

[Armenian]

Re: If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

Very interesting map. Where did you find it. Does it have a corresponding text?

Domestication of animals was one of the greatest steps forward in early human civilization, others being agriculture and metallurgy. All three aforementioned technological advances in human history took place within the Armenian Highlands.

By the way, the horse was also first domesticated in the Armenian Highlands and was first harnessed to carts for transportation.

[Palavra]

Re: If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

why not eshes by the time you came?

It takes much time because of special personality of esseks.

[jgk3]

Re: If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

Very interesting map. Where did you find it. Does it have a corresponding text?

Domestication of animals was one of the greatest steps forward in early human civilization, others being agriculture and metallurgy. All three aforementioned technological advances in human history took place within the Armenian Highlands.

By the way, the horse was also first domesticated in the Armenian Highlands and was first harnessed to carts for transportation.

here you are: http://anthropology.net/2008/08/14/e...by-1000-years/



You sure the horse was first domesticated in the Armenian Highlands? The consensus that I'm aware of attests that it happened in the 4-5th millenium BC in the Pontic Steppe. By the 3rd Millenium BC, Asia Minor got them too and used chariots to pwn their adversaries.

The consensus based on archeological records that it first occurred in the Pontic Steppe makes sense because it corresponds very well to the early Aryan Tocharian migrations and their domination of the Tarim basin. It was a time when the Kurgan cultures traveled throughout Eurasia, the world was a small place for them. It would take less than a year to get to the other side of the continent. This changed when Asians became organized and adopted the technology of the Aryans. They displaced/absorbed the Tocharians and their eastward migrating counterparts and so the Tocharians became lost in time.

[jgk3]

Re: If you couldn't marry an Armenian.....

It takes much time because of special personality of esseks.

haha... I don't get it

[Palavra]

Re: Animal Domestication!

what about other nations. any map about them(Specially curious about egypt and china.)

Also intellectual lounge is more appropriate for this topic than love and romance.

[gmd]

Re: Animal Domestication!

I remember watching a documentary about early civilization and how the first chariots may have been pulled by the ass/donkey of the time which would be similar to the ones in Iran today. I believe the donkey served and still does as a form of transport for farmers of the region.

[Armenian]

Re: Animal Domestication!

Also intellectual lounge is more appropriate for this topic than love and romance.

I disagree. Domesticated animals and love/romance go together in Turkey

[jgk3]

Re: Animal Domestication!

what about other nations. any map about them(Specially curious about egypt and china.)

I looked, but I only found stuff about crops. I'll change the title of the thread so it's about agriculture too.

Here, Oldest incidence of harvested rice in the world, 15,000 years old, found in Korea: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3207552.stm

Also intellectual lounge is more appropriate for this topic than love and romance.

Haha... but livestock is about love and breeding :P

[gmd]

Re: Animal Domestication!

Maybe the turk means that you can't beat a donkey into submission like you can other domesticated animals. They have a higher intelligence, longer memory and by nature will not forgive poor treatment. However a well trained donkey or mule is far more intelligent and useful then even a horse. They tend to be more sure footed, intelligent and have a higher endurance then the horse.