Al Andalus
You're Dead to Me
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The Importance of Agriculture in the Iberian Peninsula
There are definitely vineyards in the Iberian Peninsula. Abbasid Iraq had vineyards and wine production as well. There's mulberry trees which have silk worms on them so you can spin silk crocuses to produce saffron from the stamens for cooking, also to die cloth yellow. Loads of beekeeping. So lots of honey. We should mention olives given how much olive oil comes out of the peninsular. And yeah, it was a primarily agricultural economy, as you'd expect.
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