Barley's a kind of grass, like wheat, that is a good source of carbohydrates for people. Barley is different from wheat mainly in that it will grow with less rain, so you can grow it more different places, and also in that it doesn't taste as good as wheat. So poor people usually ate more barley, and rich people ate more wheat.
Barley's a kind of grass, like wheat, that is a good source of carbohydrates for people. Barley is different from wheat mainly in that it will grow with less rain, so you can grow it more different places, and also in that it doesn't taste as good as wheat. So poor people usually ate more barley, and rich people ate more wheat.
People first began to farm barley (instead ofpicking it wild) around 10,000 BC in West Asia, possibly because of a climate change that made the world hotter and drier.
People ate barley like wheat as a boiled porridge, or in soup, and they also made barley bread. Barley is also the grain that people usually used to make beer. But people didn't make noodles out of barley.
Because you only ate the seeds from the barley, you had all the rest of the plant left over. The stalks dried into straw, and you could weave the straw into mats to sleep on, or give it to animals to sleep on, or make shoes or baskets out of it, or tie it into bunches to thatch your house. The leftover straw was nearly as useful as the seeds.
People first began to farm barley (instead of picking it wild) around 10,000 BC in West Asia, possibly because of a climate change that made the world hotter and drier.
People ate barley like wheat as a boiled porridge, or in soup, and they also made barley bread. Barley is also the grain that people usually used to make beer. But people didn't make noodles out of barley.
Because you only ate the seeds from the barley, you had all the rest of the plant left over. The stalks dried into straw, and you could weave the straw into mats to sleep on, or give it to animals to sleep on, or make shoes or baskets out of it, or tie it into bunches to thatch your house. The leftover straw was nearly as useful as the seeds."
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