The horse-drawn plow is a tool used for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seeds or planting. It works by turning over the upper layer of soil, bringing fresh nutrients to surface while burying weeds and remains of previous crops.
Oxen Plow: An earlier version of plowing tools drawn by oxen instead of horses.
Three-field System: A rotational system for agriculture where one field was planted in the autumn with winter wheat or rye, the second field with crops like peas, lentils, or beans and the third was left fallow (unplanted).
Manorialism: The organization of rural economy and society in medieval western and parts of central Europe, characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population.
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