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The grass that fed the rise of Western Eurasian civilization and still supplies about a fifth of the calories humanity eats. First cultivated in the Fertile Crescent, wheat stores well, mills into flour, and its gluten lets bread rise, three properties that made it the grain of cities, armies and empires.
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Scientific NameTriticum aestivum (bread wheat) 1 Domestication RegionFertile Crescent, Southwest Asia 1 Domesticated When (Circa)circa 9600 BC (einkorn and emmer among the Neolithic founder crops) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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