HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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They built earth steps into land
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They fed themselves
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They had the most popular job
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All of them
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Detailed explanation-1: -From Ancient Greek (geōrgía, “farm land”).
Detailed explanation-2: -The most widely cultivated crop was wheat-especially emmer (triticum dicoccum) and durum (triticum durum) – and hulled barley (hordeum vulgare). Millet was grown in areas with greater rainfall. Gruel from barley and barley-cakes were more common than bread made from wheat.
Detailed explanation-3: -Agriculture was carried out primarily on small family farms, though the Homeric epics indicate that there were also some larger estates controlled by the elite and worked with the help of free landless thetes whose labor would be needed especially at harvest time.
Detailed explanation-4: -They were at the top of the social structure in ancient Greece. The Middle Class-Farmers, the artisans, and the merchants made up the middle classes. Below these, although still part of the middle classes, were the laborers called helots.