The Domestication of Wheat Ten thousand years ago as the gigantic glaciers of the last ice age (Pleistocene Epoch) receded, the Earth's atmosphere warmed and stabilized (World Book 6). Human beings discovered that with this new atmosphere animals and plants were available year around in a singular location and they no longer had to travel great distances to acquire needed foods. This was the birth of civilizations and thus agriculture (Kolbert 31). Around the same time many …showed first 75 words of 806 total…

…showed last 75 words of 806 total…combination of an environment and the creatures that lived in it along with a little luck. Works Cited Gras, Norman. A History of Agriculture in Europe and America. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1973. Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Ice Memory." The New Yorker. (Jan. 7, 2002): 30-40 Lord, Russel. The Care of the Earth. Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1962. The World Book Encyclopedia, 1980. Volume 10, "Ice Age", 6-7. Wyse, Elizabeth and Winkleman Barry. Past Worlds. London: Times Books Ltd., 1996.