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Assignment One – Yali’s Question

Just imagine that you were lucky enough to be born a hunter-gatherer anywhere in Eurasia thousands of years ago. Due to environmental circumstances, you noticed that you and your people were evolving into people that were much more advanced and were to lead a very different lifestyle than you had led before. Slowly you would realize that the abundance of edible plants in your area enabled you and your band to ditch your nomadic lifestyle and adopt a sedentary lifestyle because the plants where you were living were so nutritious and abundant. Why not just stay in one place and domesticate the plant? The availability of large mammals like cows, horses, sheep, goats and pigs made it easier for your people to farm and to carry goods. Your hunter-gatherer days were over. Your people collected many more goods from the neighbouring Fertile Crescent. Specifically your people received barley and emmer, which were two of the most densest and......

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