
58 History of Everything: The 14th Century and How Much it Sucked
History of Everything
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The Three-Folk Crop Rotation
In the 1100s farmers were getting significantly smaller harvests in comparison to the amount of seeds that they were sowing. Soil exhaustion would compound with all of these climate problems because what they had been using was three-field Like kind of crop rotation. It wasn't the the full four-field crop rotation that would become the standard later on. But generations of this intensive farming of producing the same crops had Over time drained the soil of nutrients and productivity Really declined compared to the 1100s like just a century or so or like a century and a half two centuries earlier.
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