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| | Gardening History Timeline: From Ancient Times to the 20th Century ... |
 | | Jarmo, Iraq; and horses at 4350 BC in Ukraine." Bio-Tech's History of Agriculture. |
 | | In about 8000 BC in the Fertile Crescent of the Near and Middle East (present-day Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Israel), wheats, barley, lentil, pea, bitter vetch, chick-pea, and possibly faba bean, were brought into cultivation by the Neolithic people. |
 | | Archaeological evidence indicates that the wheats, and some of the legumes, had reached Greece by 6000 BC and evidence of their presence within that millennium has been found in the Danube Basin, the Nile valley, and the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan). |
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