Domestication
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Domestication is a change happening in wild animals or plants, when they are kept by humans for a long time.
If humans take wild animals and plants and keep and breed them, over time the animals and plants may change. The animals and plants become dependent on the humans who keep them, and they change in ways that are better for human use. This change (domestication) happens in the group of domesticated animals or plants as a whole. It is not the same as taming one individual animal.
The first domestication of plants happened during the first use of agriculture. Human first domesticated dogs. After the invention of agriculture, people domesticated sheep and goats, and later cattle and pigs.
Domesticated plants are crops or ornamental plants. People use domesticated animals as livestock, that means for food, clothing, and work. Otherwise, the domesticated animals may be kept as pets.
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The first animal that became domesticated was the dog, which has been domesticated for at least 14.000 years. About 10.000 years ago, people domesticated sheep and goats, and later pigs and cattle. Other animals that were domesticated early are camels, donkeys and horses. Some animals, like the domestic rabbit, were only domesticated in newer times.
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The first crops were domesticated around 9000 BC in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East.
