Domestication of rice
c. 8000 BCE · Event
Rice is domesticated in the Yangtze valley, becoming the staple that would feed much of humanity.
On these timelines: Master
Around 8000 BCE
- Çatalhöyük at its peak (7000 BCE)
- Jericho settled (9000 BCE)
- Maize domesticated in Mesoamerica (7000 BCE)
- Maize domestication (7000 BCE)
- Domestication of wheat in the Levant (9000 BCE)
- Çatalhöyük settled (7100 BCE)
- Domestication of cattle (8500 BCE)
- Domestication of the potato (8000 BCE)