HISTORY OF BREAD (first man's first bread)
4 nuts = 1 slave, 18 nuts = 1 house
Adhering to all the sources I have researched, even all the sources that study the economic and political history of man, I can very briefly summarize that bread exists with man.
Since the existence of man, he has started to consume seeds as well as meat.
To cavemen, seeds were more valuable than meat.
Plenty of game meat was easy. But the seed required more labor.
That's when they discovered the wonderful pleasure of consuming seeds alongside meat, consuming protein and carbohydrates together.
They had to crush and dilute the seeds to feed the little babies.
On the one hand, they saw that the watery seed paste they had forgotten was fermented by the bacteria they had taken from outside, the pores were formed and swollen.
They discovered the first leavened bread and its flavor when they baked it, as they always do, on hot horizontal stones.
After people discovered agriculture, bread became indispensable for people.
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Although it is known that there are findings about the history of bread dating back 8-10 thousand years in the anthropological and archaeological researches of many researchers and scientists, I think that it goes back to earlier dates in this way.
There may be no evidence for now, but according to some researchers, there is evidence that cave-age people used seeds. But this use can also be in the form of unleavened bread.
After mankind discovered bread, bread became the greatest value in the economy of primitive society.
When money was not yet available, a hunter in small colonies had to pay ten times his weight for meat or ten rabbits for a loaf of bread. Or a tailor paid for a leather garment for a loaf of bread. slaves were given slices of bread for the work they did in return for their labor.
4000 YEARS AGO 18 BREAD = HOUSE, 4 BREAD = 1 SLAVE
Gazi University Faculty of Arts and Sciences History Department research assistant Gürkan GÖKÇEK revealed very interesting information about the tablets unearthed from Kültepe-Kaniş.
Expressing that the Assyrians attached great importance to silver and determined their prices according to silver, GÖKÇEK states that it was determined that gold was rarely used in pricing at that time.
According to the research of Gökçek, who stated that he found the prices of slaves, animals, real estate, fabric, metal, beverage and food in the tablets unearthed in the Kültepe-Kaniş excavations, the real estates were sold cheaper than other objects. .
In the Assyrian Trade Colonies in Anatolia, a loaf of bread was bought for 1-1.5 segel of silver (1 segel; 8 grams), while house prices ranged between 18-668 segels and field prices ranged between 60-180 segels of silver. Accordingly, 4000 years ago, a slave could be bought for four loaves of bread, and a house for 18 loaves of bread.
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For now, the earliest finds about bread are found in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Well-heated flat stones are initially used for cooking. After the discovery of tiles and bricks, they began to bake in kilns. In ancient times, people consumed other foods without any processing. The only exception was perhaps wheat and flour bread.
According to research, Babylonians knew how to bake bread in ovens about 4000 years ago. Again BC. It has been understood from the excavations that milling and bakery art was almost a sector in 4300 ancient Egypt. After the Göbeklitepe excavations, environmental scientist Dr. In the article written by Eric Pallant, the origin of the first leavened bread is our land, Mesopotamia. Please review the article on the subject with the google translation tool. Some parts of the article are below.
By Bulent Dundar
