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AP World History 4.4 Technological and Environmental Transformations, to c. 600 B.C.E. Which of the following is an advantage that Bronze-age plow agriculture had over slash-and-burn?
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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop douceur brought
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to you by the bronze age farmers association They won't
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let anything tarnish their name All right let's check out
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our question Which of the following is an advantage that
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bronze age plow agriculture had over slash and burn And
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here a potential answers Well let's start with answer a
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Have you ever done a ton of squats in gym
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class or even moved a bunch of heavy boxes Now
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imagine doing both of those at once outside in the
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blistering sun all day long If anything human powered plow
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agriculture was far more labor intensive than slash and burn
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agriculture The more labor intensive the work the more time
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it takes because efficiency was not an advantage The flower
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head over the slash and burn we can root out
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eh How about being all right Well before the bronze
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age the tools of a farmer's trade were simple Digging
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sticks and host these tools were lightweight easy to transport
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and very useful when you had to move on after
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a few years of burning your fields around Wow agriculture
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required some pretty fancy Not mentioned heavy equipment Even the
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plows in good shape would have required physical resource is
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like metal Well making sure people learned a plow correctly
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was required on the job training the actual plowing would
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have required manpower Well all in all that's a lot
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of resource is more than is required for the age
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old slash and burn So we can act be well
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let's take a swing it deep The biggest problem with
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the slash and burn agricultural approach was that land became
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unusable after about five or so years as the soil
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gradually lost more and more nutrients So it's true that
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plow agriculture allowed for greater yields in the long run
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But did it actually make agricultural expansion easier Well we've
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talked about how clough agriculture was a heck of a
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lot of work and how the fancy equipment tended away
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like a ton and a half Both these factors suggest
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that agricultural expansion was made of harder because of plow
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agriculture anyway Concave d the old heave ho How about
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see wow agriculture was kind of a commitment Sure it
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took a lot of time Hardwork and variety of resource
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is but it made staying in one place and options
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not having to move every time you finish eating everything
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in your fridge means you can probably get a bit
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more done Uh things like building a large permanent settlement
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And one of the main advantage is was the soil
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remained nutrient rich so fields could be reused indefinitely So
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it looks like answer She is correct and looks like
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we've plowed right through that question All right we'll see 00:02:37.683 --> [endTime] ourselves out
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