HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Serfs built step terraces into mountainsides.
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Peasants cleared forests and drained swamps.
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Farmers planted floating gardens in shallow lakes.
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Merchants sold farmable land to buyers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -(ii) Expansion in agriculture provided better food to people. The meaning of better food for people was a longer life span. By the thirteenth century, the average age of an average European increased upto 10 years as compared to 8th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -1: New Agricultural Practices. The Agricultural Revolution, the unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries, was linked to such new agricultural practices as crop rotation, selective breeding, and a more productive use of arable land.
Detailed explanation-3: -The early medieval ‘agricultural revolution’ saw the advent of new, extensive forms of cereal farming that enabled landowners to amass wealth by exploiting the labour of others and supported the exceptionally rapid growth of towns, markets and populations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cotton, cereals, pulses, indigo, sugarcane, etc. were the major crops.