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Culture hearth: early attempts of agriculture were in these culture hearths: the domestication of plants, the domestication of animals. The environmental transformation i the food producing revolution. Didn"t have technology to use irrigation but they did create an economic base from. During discoveries, new landscapes had to be brought into use. They were different from previous life styles i. e. hunter gatherers which they could live most researchers believe the first culture hearth is the fertile crescent. The foothills were oak and alpine meadows and mountains. Average rain was 25-30 inches aka dry agriculture (do not need irrigation) and irrigated agriculutre like in. Small populations, no more than 5 million people on earth at the time (20,000bc) After 20,000 bc broadened a diet of game, grain, fruit to nuclear zone: optimal place to sustain early agricultural human life; no perfect nuclear zone. Fertile crescent allowed people to exploit diversity of food. Container revoluion (around 9,000 bc) beginning of pottery and baskets.
