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Hongyi peasant farm growing food with agroecological methods. Jiang Family Village, Pingyi County, Linyi City, Shandong Province, China. Photo: Evaggelos Vallianatos. The world was a gigantic village for most of recorded history. [1] Villagers, rural people, peasants, domesticated wild crops, fruits, and vegetables, the food we eat today. They domesticated farm animals like the horse, donkey, mule, buffalo, oxen, cows, sheep, goats, chicken, dogs and cats. In addition, they formed the first political communities, villages and poleis (city-states), that shaped civilization. Rural Hellas In ancient Hellas — Greece — peasants, persons of the land, not philosophers, discovered democracy. Xenophon, student…
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