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| Some excerpts from episode 1 about the advent of agriculture:
"Around 16,000 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere began to warm up. After tens of thousands of years living as hunter gatherers at the mercy of Nature, this transformation of the world climate helped our ancestors do something radically new.
The river Tigris, Eastern Turkey, in the Fertile Crescent. Humans can eat 56 kinds of wild grass, and 32 of them grew here, compared for instance to just 4 in America. Fertile indeed. This is where the single biggest change that humans have ever made to our planet, even in our age of science and great cities, the one thing that has changed Earth more than any other, started here, in the land of the rivers."
About the first city communities and human health:
"There is evidence that tuberculosis passed from cattle to humans at about this time. Most of the worst threats to human health, small pox, measles, flue, came first from farm animals."
Nice story about the Flood too, but the Chinese version about the Yellow River, caused by nine consecutive years of heavy rain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/39/andrew-marrs-hist... | |
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Nice new BBC series "History of the World" by Andrew Marrs
