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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Such as, say, lack of domesticated corn? Oh wait, that's the first domesticated crop.
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"Most importantly, as Jared Diamond shows in Guns, Germs, and Steel, the Fertile Crescent possessed the wild progenitors of the eight Neolithic founder crops important in early agriculture (i.e. wild progenitors to emmer wheat, einkorn, barley, flax, chick pea, pea, lentil, bitter vetch), and four of the five most important species of domesticated animals — cows, goats, sheep, and pigs — and the fifth species, the horse, lived nearby."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_Crescent