How did the technology of crop rotation in the 14th century affect fiefdom in Normandy?
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What planet are you from?
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Do you mean SERFS? They worked for the Lord of the Manor. Tilled his land several days a week, herded his animals, and whatever else needed doing around his manor.  It does not take place today - it's history.
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Are you actually asking what farming techniques have changed since people were digging in the ground with stones to today's modern methods?  \n\nThis is the subject of an entire book, not something that can be answered on Yahoo Answers!\n\nYou can go to www.wikipedia.org and type in "farming", that's about as much help as I can give you without quitting my job and doing this full-time!
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PORTUGAL WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN COUNTRY TO ARRIVE IN\nNIGIRIA IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
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http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/agriculture_pre.html\n\nhttp://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoek/OND1276918/\n\nhttp://www.sare.org/highlights/2006/farm_systems.htm
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Geography homework huh.\n\nBroadly.\n\n1) Improper removal of stubble or fallow cover leading to  erosion.\n\n2) Insufficient fallow time leading to decline in soil fertility.\n\n3) Over removal of tree cover leading to water table elevation and/or salinity.\n\n4) Over production of single crop types crops leading to nutrient depletion.\n\n5) Over-irrigation leading to turbidity and and slainity in irriagtion water sources.\n\n6) Failure to control tree growth within catchment leading to excess infiltration and loss of runoof. Irrigation water fails.\n\n7) Excess tillage of fragile soils leading to erosion.\n\n8) Tillage of soils in anticipation of  planting conditions that fail to transpire. Ground remains loose and without plant cover for extended periods and erodes.\n\n9) Overgrazing leading to desertification which encroaches on arable land.\n\nThat probably covers most of the practices that have caused land loss in the poast 6000 years.
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It uses up all of the "nutrients" or whatever in the soil.  Crop rotation and planting things like legumes were done to allow the land to recharge between planting cycles.
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Medieval Guilds were centered on trades mostly. So you could try the merchants guild. They were very strong in advocating their rights as to the privileges of the middle class. Especially when it came to not only ownership of land but also the ability to determine their own destiny.
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1.Cotton traps heat and prevents absorbing adequate moisture. \n2.Pesticides used in cotton growing destroy the soil chemical balance making it to be less beneficial in agriculture.\n3.Crop rotation and organic farming are some of  the best things to do to keep the earth usable.\n4.Crop rotation is cultivation of different crop varieties in every cropping season. Example: plant corn, after harvest plant peanut before another corn cropping.♥\n5.Crop rotation will help the soil to restore its chemical chemistry and reduce the increasing level of toxic components as the effects of pesticides used in the previous cropping.
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Interesting reading here about 'The Development of the Codpiece'.\n\n Legend has it that Edward III, king of England from 1327-1377, had the codpiece of his armor ENLARGED to astounding proportions because he had heard that strength and military prowess were correlated with a man's endowment. As he was in the midst of the Hundred Years' War with the French at the time, it would not be surprising that he would try to seek any possible advantage available to him.\n\n He then ordered that the nobility and knights do the same to their armor. The legend goes on to say that the gullible French (from the nobility all the way down to the peasantry) were scared to death by the advance of the "WELL-EQUIPPED" men. If this legend is true, and the personality of Edward III would support it, it is an example of how the nobility can influence fashion. \nP.S. for the nicest codpiece go here: \n http://www.perrybrass.com/storypag.htm
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There were centers of learning and scholarship.  They often helped to bring heavily forested land and wetlands into agricultural production.  They were more like a mirror of society-at-large than the cells of the desert hermits.\n\nIs this a homework question?
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Read a book called Guns, Germs, and Steel or get it on video if you're lazy.  Basically the author of this book explains how geographic and climactic factors favored agriculture in Europe as their society evolved, this gave them a head start towards modern society.  Africa's climate continues to be less favorable for agriculture and industry.  And in many places their social structure remains focused on survival rather than "progress".  Thats not the whole story, but its a big piece of the puzzle.
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MEDIEVAL ECONOMICS\n\nThe people of the former Roman province of Britain in the 5th and 6th Centuries had to make their living in difficult circumstances. Around them lay the ruins of imperial grandeur. In the cities, public buildings and private houses were in decay; on the frontiers, the forts were abandoned; in the country, the aristocratic villas were crumbling. This was not just a matter of physical decline or political change because as the Roman state was dismantled, so roads, bridges and ports were neglected, the coinage disappeared, government spending ceased and the elite of the armed forces and civil administration were no longer employing labor or consuming goods on a large scale. Trade dwindled and the former mass-producing industries collapsed. The native British population faced major upheavals in their way of life, including unemployment and a breakdown in law and order. The German immigrants from across the North Sea, who had been attracted by the opulence of the province, had to adapt to a changing society. \n\nWithout trade, easy communications or imperial government, the cities could not provide a living for a large population and almost everyone lived in the countryside. Here again they had no alternative but to adapt to a restricted economy. Apart from problems of security there would be no more large surpluses to be sold in the towns. The villas were taken over by succeeding generations of native British or Anglo-Saxon immigrants who put up buildings of wood. In some cases the territory around the villa persisted as an estate unit and the owners obtained tribute from the local peasants. \n\nThe priority of country-dwellers lay in providing for their own subsistence. In southern and eastern England they lived in timber houses often measuring 15 by 30 feet, associated with smaller structures with sunken floors built for storage, craft work (such as weaving) and accomodations for servants and dependants. \n\nEven in the reduced circumstances of the post-Roman recession, households could not meet all of their consumption requirements from their own resources. They wove their own cloth and no doubt built their own houses and made implements from wood. But they needed iron weapons and farming tools and women wore ornate jewelry manufactured from copper alloy. These could only be supplied by specialists with crfating skills and raw materials so some surpluses from the land were exchanged. \n\nA society with an emphasis on production for use and which had limited facilities for exchange was not likely to be deeply stratified. Elites collected foodstuffs from the peasants in some form but they had limited ways of disposing of goods once they satisfied their followers. While the people of 5th and 6th Century England adapted successfully to their post-imperial world, this was still a traumatic process. The losses of population far outweighed the gains from migration partly as a result of plague epidemics in the 6th Century, but more as uncertainties and the lack of economic opportunity discouraged marriage and child-rearing. We can only make an educated guess at the overall figures but the sparsity of settlements, the abandonment of towns and the retreat of cultivation could point to at least halving the population. Thus numbers fell from a peak of perhaps 5 million in the 2nd Century to less than 2 million by 600 AD.
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In developing countries,farmers are unable to afford a new hoe.In developed countries,farmers are unable to pay off half a million dollars worth of farm machinery.
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try looking at this site. It should go at least part way to explaining.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_counties_of_England
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Crop diversification means growing a variety of crops in an area, not just one.  If one crop fails this year, the area can still survive.  The growth and spread of predators is limited.\n\nCrop rotation means not growing the same crop in the same place year after year, depleting the soil of the nutrients needed to grow that crop.  It should also include letting the ground lie fallow some years to let it recover, or growing crops for the purpose of replenishing soil nutrients.
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No.  Crop circles are formed by humans with a rope and a wooden plank.\n\n"In 1991, more than a decade after the phenomena began, two men, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, revealed that they had been making crop circles in England since 1978 using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools. Many other people around the world are also openly making crop circles, notably Circlemakers.org"