3. domestication

History 8 Agriculture Vocabulary

In the fertile crescent, farmers domesticated both animals and plants. The dictionary defines domestication as "to tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild" for animals and "to adapt (a plant) so as to be cultivated by and beneficial to human beings." The domestication revolution was the "first dramatic transformation in the nature of human societies" as they learned to tame animals and farm plants.

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Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/domestication?s=t)

Nicolas Baumann