ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

Question 1

MAIN ACTIVITIES

Answer 1

Agricultural activity, the main,
1.-Cereal crops. Is the main food consumed: black bread and porridge.
2.-Vegetable garden (cabbages and onions and pulses), to make stews and soups.
3.-Wine and beer
Complements (Livestocks):
1.-Farm animals and their products (sheeps, cows, goats, poultry, pigs).
2.-Nature products: game, wild berries, fish.
Others:
1.-Meat: was rarely consumed by the majority of the poblation.
2.-Wool and leather.
3.-Draught animals.
4.-War horses.

Question 2

AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQUES

Answer 2

1. Hoes.
2. -Sickles :harvesting cereals.
3. -Scythes: reaping and weeding.
4. -Water or wind mills

Question 3

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES

Answer 3

1. -Three year crop rotation: dividing the land in three: Winter cereal, in one zone, spring cereal in other, and third uncultivated to recover the soil.
2. -Spread irrigation systems.
3. -Arrival of mouldboard ploughs. Heavy plough with wheels, and a curved ironclad, turn the soil to recover.
4. -Manure as a fertiliser.
5. -Harness: device attached to the animal was placed around the chest and stomach.