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| | The Americas, Southeast Asia and Oceania, to 1000 BCE |
 | | Between the years 5000 and 3500 BCE, these people grew beans and an early variety of corn, which, with their squash, amounted to about ten percent of their food, the rest of their food having been acquired through hunting, fishing and gathering plants. |
 | | Also by 2500 BCE, people in a narrow strip of lowland along the coast of Peru were weaving cotton into textiles and eating fish, shellfish, sea mammals, beans and squash. |
 | | It was around 2000 BCE, give or take a century or two, that people who were ancestral to today's Malays began migrating across the ocean from the Asian mainland to what are called Indonesian islands, bringing with them the cultivation of rice and domesticated animals. |
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