Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the steps by which agricultural change supported urban growth.
- Heavier ploughs and better traction open new and wetter soils
- Towns purchase charters granting markets, courts and tolls
- Population not required on the land concentrates in towns
- Three-field rotation raises the share of land under crop each year
- Food output rises faster than the labour needed to produce it
Hints
- The chain runs from a technique to a legal document.
- Charters come last, once there is a community with money to buy them.
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- Heavier ploughs and better traction open new and wetter soils
- Three-field rotation raises the share of land under crop each year
- Food output rises faster than the labour needed to produce it
- Population not required on the land concentrates in towns
- Towns purchase charters granting markets, courts and tolls
Why
The last step is the one that is easy to skip. A town’s liberties were usually bought or negotiated, not granted out of goodwill: a lord sold rights for cash he needed, and the community could pay because the surplus at step three had made it rich enough to.
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