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>It has been claimed (based on paleoclimatic assumptions) that chickens were domesticated in Southern China in 6000 BC.[31] However, according to a recent study,[32] it is unclear whether those birds were the ancestors of chickens today. Instead, the origin could be the Harappan culture of the Indus Valley. Eventually, the chicken moved to the Tarim basin of central Asia. The chicken reached Europe (Romania, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine) about 3000 BC.[33] Introduction into Western Europe came far later, about the 1st millennium BC.
How did such a far-reaching trade network between East Asia and Europe exist so long ago and why was chicken the only thing to result from it?
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>>1870665
I-if the Chinks weren't eating chickens, what did they eat then?
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>>1870822
Long pig
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Tin trade routes stretched from Greece all the way to Afghanistan during the bronze age.
The world was a lot less isolated than we think, even when the only form of long range travel was horse/camel.
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>>1870665
>How did such a far-reaching trade network between East Asia and Europe exist so long ago
>Merchant from village A visits village B ~10 miles away
>villagers in B let him try roasted chicken, merchant likes it, buys a few live chickens to raise back in A
>some time later, merchant from village C ,~10 miles in the other direction, stops at village A, likes chicken, buys some
>repeat 500 times over several centuries
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>>1871184
This, also animals are a lot easier to spread than other goods. If some guy buys a bunch of chickens and travels 500 miles then he can breed them in his town and sell them to whoever comes looking to buy things.The next guy who comes along buys chickens from the first and the cycle repeats.
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