Answer:
Humans collected and fed wild grains since at least 20,000 BC. C. From 9500 a. C., the eight Neolithic founding crops - farro, spelled wheat, barley, peas, lentils, yero, chickpeas and flax - began to be cultivated in the Mediterranean Levant. Rice was domesticated in China between 11,500 and 6200 BC. C., followed by Chinese beans, soybeans and azuki beans. The pigs were domesticated in
Mesopotamia around 11,000 BC. C., followed by sheep between 11,000 and 9000 BC. In Mesoamerica, wild teosinte was domesticated as corn around 10,000 BC. C. Cattle were domesticated from wild aurochs in the region of Turkey and
Pakistan, around 8500 BC C. Sugar cane and some root vegetables were domesticated in
New Guinea around 7000 BC Sorghum was domesticated in the Sahel region of Africa around 5000 BC. In the Andes in South America, potatoes, beans and coca were domesticated between 8000 and 5000 BC. C., as well as the Ilamas, the alpacas and the guinea pigs. In the same period, plantains were grown and hybridized in New Guinea. Cotton was domesticated in Peru around 3600 BC. Camels were possibly domesticated around 3000 BC. C. in Somalia and Arabia.
