Isolating your self from others
My research shows that the domestication of plants started around 9,000 years ago. Fig trees, variety of wheat and peas in the Near East were first 9,000 years ago. Barley and chickpeas around 8,500 years ago. These were followed by rice in asia 8,000 years ago along with potatoe, beans and squash in Central and South America also around 8,000 years ago.
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially when it's from a particular ethnic group or nation.
To gain the southerners' support, Douglas proposed creating two territories in the area–Kansas and Nebraska and repealing the Missouri Compromise line. The question of whether the territories would be slave or free would be left to the settlers under Douglas's principle of popular sovereignty
