Prehistory: Notable Foods & Drinks

Cataloguing foods and drinks as "things" in my Prehistory Sets

Emmer (Fact 1)

Type of wild wheat plant that began to be grown during the Agricultural Revolution in Palestine around 8000 BCE

Maize (Fact 1)

Becomes an important crop in the Tehuacan Valley in Mexico around 5000 BCE

Rice (Fact 1)

Starts to be cultivated in the Homudu region of China around 5000 BCE

Peppers (Fact 1)

First grown in Mexico around 7000 BCE - 6000 BCE

Pumpkins (Fact 1)

First grown in Mexico around 7000 BCE - 6000 BCE

Marrows (Fact 1)

First grown in Mexico around 7000 BCE - 6000 BCE

Mutton, from Sheep (Fact 1)

First reared in Iran around 7000 BCE

Beef, from Cattle (Fact)

First reared in the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys and Central Anatolia around 7000 BCE - 6000 BCE

Alcohol / Wine (Fact 1)

Drink which was invented around 3500 BCE in the Near East in which people discovered the bizarre properties of dates, figs, and other tree-cops in which, when these fruits are left lying around in pots or jars, their juice ferments, and in which the fermented juice can then form the basis of a brew which, when drunk, gives a narcotic effect

Alcohol / Wine (Fact 2)

Drink which was now being deliberated made, having become very popular, although the drinks from the vine and dates are dear to produce; such techniques that were used to make it also were used on more plentiful malted cereals to make a cheaper version of the drink, even if its thick sediment meant it has to be drunk through a straw