Agriculture emerged in the Middle East 12.000 years ago. Crops, skills and ancestral knowledge have been passed down through generations to us. However, this indigenous agriculture was disrupted, dislodge to the profit of colonial production or simply destroyed. This is a short history of our Green Roots in the Middle East.

Resources:

Dawn of Agriculture

• What was the Neolithic Revolution?

• Catalhoyuk

• Catalhoyuk Research Project

• The Dawn of Agriculture

• Review: a World With Agriculture

• Neolithic Revolution

Founder Crops

• The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops: Their Biology and Archaeobotany

Arab Agricultural Revolution

• The Arab Agricultural Revolution and Its Diffusion, 700–1100

• The Muslim Agriculture Revolution and it’s Influence in Europe

First Cookbooks

• Cooking with the Caliphs

• The Andalusi Kitchen — Arab Cuisine in Spain Under Muslim Rule

Indigenous vs. Colonial Agriculture (Mount Lebanon’s Case)

• Why did they leave? Reasons for early Lebanese migration

• Inventing Home — Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920

• “House” to “Goddess of the House”: Gender, Class, and Silk in 19th-Century Mount LebanonSilk and Agrarian Changes in Lebanon, 1860-1914

Youtube Videos:

• https://youtu.be/o70A1VqrxEQ

• https://youtu.be/vmFKBf5OVoI

• https://youtu.be/5ebUwqogWc8

• https://youtu.be/i885hopsw6E