- Did the Chinese understand this and is that why they were able to keep their crops going so well?
- Did they bring into nutrients or other soils to replenish?
- Or were they just lucky and started growing in an area of land that was so robust it didn't need replenishment?
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Ch #3 Post Week 1 - Agricultural revolution differences of China
While reading the text I noticed that many of the early civilizations didn't maintain the continuity of their societies except for China. The book mentions that the other early groups had higher levels of salt content from the repeated use of the land which caused diminished yields and thereby causing problems in population and food maintenance. Modern agriculture rotates crops and uses sacrifices some crops to simple grind them into the soil to replenish the nutrients of the soil. Three questions come to mind:
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Hi, Ian. I checked out this site: www.salt.org.il/frame_china1.html and found this info:"Saltmaking is a very ancient industry. More than 4,000 years ago the Chinese were boiling down brine in small pans from saline soil in desert basins and relatively dry areas where the rainfall is not sufficient to wash the salts away." To answer your question, it seems like they knew what they were doing and they were very resourceful.
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