How long has a man been using grain for food?

It is believed that our ancestors were savage and uneducated savages. Of course, to some extent this was true, but at the same time they laid the foundations of industrial plant growing and cattle breeding, constantly domesticating many species of plants and animals. A special role in the history of civilization is played by crops, without which it is simply impossible to imagine our life.

So when did the history of mankind and edible cereals closely interwoven into one whole? Scientists believe that the beginning of this process was laid as far back as 11 millennium BC! It is to this period that archaeological finds refer to that at about that time people already knew how to use crops. Of course, that at that time there was no question of purposeful cultivation, since the tribes only began to make their first steps to a settled way of life, having learned to collect and store their edible seeds for future use.

It should be noted that the rapid development of European civilization is largely due to the fact that its representatives were the first to massively use cereals for food and developed a technology for obtaining flour. This has contributed to the survival of a large number of people, even in hungry and bad hunting years. It was then that agriculture became valued. Approximately at the same time, the beginning of breeding was initiated, as the crops were previously characterized by poor yields. It took centuries to create truly valuable and productive cultures.

In those days, people knew how to bake bread from the flour they received. True bread appeared only in the 4th millennium BC. The Egyptians learned to bake it, and at first bread was so expensive that it fed on them exclusively to know. It was he who was put in the graves to the pharaohs. Given the complexity of farming and the difficult manual harvesting of ripe cereals, such a quivering attitude to bread is understandable.

Since then, much has changed. Now a rich market of cereals allows you to consume flour products to everyone. Over the past thousands of years, almost everything has changed, but the technology of obtaining flour and baking bread from it basically remained virtually unchanged.

However, grain crops are unique because they laid the foundation for many ancient civilizations. Do not open up the wonderful properties of wheat, our society would never have been able to reach such heights in progress. For centuries, entire states have developed precisely through agrarian means. By the way, Russia has developed as an agrarian country throughout its history, and even today this sector remains of major importance for the country's economy.

Russia's cereals themselves have not always been as diverse as they can boast today. For a long time our ancestors grew mainly rye, millet and barley, which for centuries retained their most important strategic importance. Recently, the quantity of cereals grown by us has grown considerably, as breeders constantly bring out their new varieties.