accepted that our ancestors were wild and uneducated savages.Of course, to some extent, this was true, but at the same time, they laid the foundations of industrial crops and cattle constantly domesticating many species of plants and animals.A special role in the history of civilization are playing crops, without which it is simply impossible to imagine our life.
So when the history of mankind and edible crops is closely intertwined into one?Scientists believe that the beginning of this process was laid in the 11th century BC!It is to this period are archaeological findings that show that around the time people already knew how to use the crops.Of course, at that time there was no question of purposeful breeding them as tribes were just beginning to take the first steps to a sedentary lifestyle, having learned to collect and store their edible seeds for the future.
It should be noted that the rapid development of European civilization is largely due precisely to the fact that its representatives were the first to mass use in food grains and developed a technology for the production of flour.This has contributed to the survival of a large number of people, even in the hungry and poor hunting years.It then became prized agriculture.At about the same time was the beginning of the selection, as different crops previously poor yield.It took a century to create a truly valuable and productive culture.
In those days people knew how to bake from the resulting wholemeal scones only.This bread has appeared only in the 4th millennium BC.Bake him to teach the Egyptians, and at first the bread was so expensive product that they ate only know.That it was placed in the tomb of a pharaoh.Given the complexity of agriculture and manual cleaning of hard ripened crops, such reverent attitude to the bread is quite understandable.
Since then, much has changed.Now a rich grain market allows everyone to use flour products.Over the past thousand years it has changed almost everything, but the technology for production of flour and baking bread from it basically remained virtually unchanged.
However, crops are unique by the fact that they laid the foundation for many ancient civilizations.Do not open the man remarkable properties of wheat, our society would not have been able to reach such heights in progress.For centuries, the entire state is developing agrarian way.By the way, Russia has developed as an agricultural country throughout its history, and even today, this sector remains critical to the economy.
Sami crops Russia is not always such a variety of different, how they can boast today.For a long time our ancestors cultivated mainly rye, millet and barley, which preserved over the centuries its strategic importance.In recent years, the number of cultivated cereals have increased significantly, as breeders constantly remove them new varieties.
