It was bred in China for more than 8,000 years to be in one of the twelve signs of the zodiac as non-(sheep) [the source required]. There is the trace that the hunting of the wild large-sized sheep was carried out from Neolithic era. It is ancient Mesopotamia that domestication began, and the bone of the small sheep which is different from the nature sheep excavates it in large quantities from remains of 7000-6000 age B.C., and it is thought with evidence of the domestication of the oldest sheep .
The sheep which saves fat on the buttocks
The ancestor of a domesticated sheep can date back to four kinds of wild sheep distributed from Mongolia to India, west Asia, the Mediterranean Sea. Argali of the Central Asia, the Asian mouflon which were in the current Near and Middle East, Indian urial , European mouflon of the Mediterranean Sea hit this. As for these four kinds, a crossing is possible, and I do not come to identify the father of the current sheep by the genetic technique either, but an opinion that Asia mouflon is a progenitor from some collaborating evidence becomes mainstream.
It is thought that it was fat and hair to have been the most important on domesticating a sheep. Meat and milk, the leather use were superior in a goat, and, as for the domestication, degree led for 1000 through 2000. However, the fat which is an important nutrient cannot get the mountains and desert, a step from a goat enough for nomadic herders living in the dry zone, and the fat of the sheep is a best nourishment source even in the present age. The pig which enters the mainstream of the fat intake in other areas is evaded religiously without being suitable for breeding under such a severe environment. A kind to save fat on a tail and the buttocks is made much of in the area of such drying and benumbing cold. It is classified as fat-tailed sheep, each.
About the use of the hair, an aspect is different from a modern sheep in an immediate early sheep greatly.
The hair (fleece) of the wild sheep becomes two levels. It is covered the outside coarsely thickly by a long “feather” (guard hair, Kemp), and “Shimoge” (wool) that I have a short it and am soft, and is thin such as the downy hair slightly grows in the inside that is near to skin. (wool) of the immediate early sheep was undeveloped and was not used. On the other hand, there was the property that a feather (Kemp) came out of the wild sheep in spring (molting), and the human seemed to make felt by this feather (Kemp) which fell from B.C. [3]. It is hair of the sheep for kind improved domestic animals now we are usual, and to get close as wool (wool) to develop this Shimoge mainly. The modern domesticated sheep does not perform molting.
Legend of Greek golden wool
Instead of letting a feather (Kemp) degrade by improvement, the domesticated sheep developed middle hair and (wool) called the hair (there is not a suitable equivalent). The sheep of a hair type and the wool type differentiates in about B.C. 4000. Babylonia of about B.C. 2000 prospered by wool and cereals and three major products of the vegetable oil. As for the name of the Babylon, there is the researcher to be the meaning of “the woolen country”
Relief of first century Rome
The feather (Kemp) of the sheep of the nature type was black and was dark reddish-brown and brown, but hair of a light color and the white was provided from the sheep of hair and the wool type by improvement and spread in Egypt with a dye technology from Mesopotamia, and, as for the colored carpet, it was with an important trade product. The sheep of a white wool type was brought into Caucasus and the Iberian Peninsula by the Phoenician who appeared in the Mediterranean Sea from about B.C. 1500. The sheep of Caucasus was rediscovered later by a Greek, and it became a golden sheep legend. This sheep was improved to the class which laid white wool long and frugally softly in time of the Roman Empire. The clothes which a Roman wore are woolen textiles. On the other hand, in the Iberian Peninsula, I could continue further improvement by the sheep of the wool type that had been already aboriginal and improvement by the mating of the class, and a current merino class appeared in Castilia in about 1300.
The merino class which produced only ideal wool supported the golden age in Spain through woolen stuff industry. Spanish royal families cast public funds in the merino class and bred it and were done if not to be removed from the premises except that several of them were presented to overseas royal families as diplomatic means. The person who violated this was capital punishment. When it was the 18th century, the European various countries intervened in war in Spain and a merino seed was carried away as war trophies and flowed out, and Spanish superiority in the wool production was lost. The new industry that combined a steam engine with a textile of the wool came into existence in the U.K. 13 merino seeds were imported via same time, South Africa by Australia. It is informed that three of them of these became the founder of the current Australian merino class.
The leather use of the sheep can date back for the oldest thing until about B.C. 2500, but, for parchment, it is said that full-scale processing began in Pelger mon (Turkey) in the about second century B.C.
The sheep milk is full of fat and protein in comparison with the milk of the goat and is suitable for processing. The sheep milk is processed into cheese and yogurt traditionally in the Near and Middle East and the European Continent, and many dairy cattles are bred now. However, the yield per unit area is inferior to the cow which succeeded in domestication, and the milk use of the sheep is not mainstream less late in the area that can breed a cow.
In Japan, the sheep of various kinds was brought in for the Meiji period by a foreign employee, but the sheep suitable for the climate that was coolness did not settle in many kinds without being familiar with Japanese wet environment. The Japanese Government made much of the spread of oxen and horses, but foreignpreached the need of the self-support of the wool for a military blanket, and sheep range was founded in Shimousa in (1875) in 1875 by Toshimichi Okubo. This is the beginning of the breeding of the full-scale sheep in Japan. The woolen stuff made in Japan was an important export, but was replaced after the war for a chemical fiber before a war until the time when there was not the room.バイナリオプション
The sheep for domestic animals is classified roughly into a kind for hair, a breed for meat, a dairy cattle, but, including the merino of the representative class, there are many kinds of the combined use.