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AGRICULTURE
BCE
| Date |
Place |
Event |
| 3500 |
Egypt |
Plowing, raking, and manuring. |
| 3000 |
Sumer |
Sumerians grow barley, bake bread, make beer; metal coins
begin to replace barley as legal tender. |
| 2500 |
Babylon |
First domesticated chickens. |
| 2100 |
Peru |
Cotton cultivation. |
| 2000 |
Egypt |
Irrigation system utilizes Nile floods. |
| 950 |
Egypt |
1st verified date of poppies grown. |
| 79 |
Rome |
Lucullus
imports 1st cherry trees from Asia Minor. |
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