The History of the World

New oxen driven ploughs made comparative light work of ploughing the fields. Dung is good for crops due to its ability to keep the soil in more of a fertile condition. It appears to be a reality that farming was a bit of a lottery. Many humans were in the lap of the gods when it came to the success of their harvest. A society of people with failed crop harvests could very quickly disintegrate into chaos on the other hand, if a society wese successful at producing crops,. Then they could uce a surplus, which in turn could be considered as wealth. Those peoples who required crops from this surplus would have been forced to trade whatever they had