The First FarmersEconomy & Trade Lentils and chickpeas c. 8,800 BCENotable Legumes add protein to early farming diets and enrich the soil. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Lentils and chickpeas Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesBookDaniel Zohary, Maria Hopf and Ehud WeissDomestication of Plants in the Old World ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeNeolithic founder crops lentils chickpeas ↗Editor's pick