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domestication began. there are only six other places in the world where the shift from hunting and gathering to farming took place without significant outside influences: the fertile crescent of the near east (wheat, barley, lentils), north china (millet, sorghum), mesoamerica (maize, beans), africa (barley, yams
), southeast asia (yams, rice), and south america (manioc, potatoes). in the ohio valley, pre-contact american indians grew a variety of local plants such as squash, sunflower, erect knotweed, lamb's quarter, and maygrass. ohio's earliest gardeners/farmers lived in small communities of two or three households...
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