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The First Farmers

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Domestication of animals such as cows as well as the domestication of plants changed people's lives and the course of human history .

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Hunting, gathering to plant and herding occurred independently in many parts of the world.

There was enough rainfall in the northern Mesopotamia to grow crops, and the region .

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Wheat, barley, sheep, cattle, goats,and pigs the wild plants and animals that eventually were domesticated.

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People were living in the southern plains of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers by 5800 BC.

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The rivers were undependable, drying up in the warm heat of summer.

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Overtime, the ditches laced the fields near the rivers, making the land a maze of artificial water ways.

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