What is sharecropping?
Sharecroppers picking cotton. See the little girl and the bigger boy? (ca 1890) How do people become sharecroppers? When people didn't own any land, or they lost their land because of not [...]
Sharecroppers picking cotton. See the little girl and the bigger boy? (ca 1890) How do people become sharecroppers? When people didn't own any land, or they lost their land because of not [...]
Olive trees (on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem) Olive trees grew around the Mediterranean Sea, and early Stone Age people used the oil from wild trees, which burns well without [...]
Greek weather and environment: a map of Greece Weather changed with the seasons The weather in ancient Greece, like the weather in most places, changed with the seasons. Greek weather [...]
Egyptian farming: Ancient Egyptian cattle plowing (Louvre Museum, Paris) When did Egyptians start to farm? The Egyptians started farming a little later than their neighbors in West Asia and about the same [...]
Egyptian wall painting of farm work Family farms Maybe when people first started farming, each family pretty much farmed by itself. Mom and Dad and the kids planted the grain [...]
History of farming: A field of wheat When did people start farming? People did not farm as a major way of getting food until around 12,000 BC. About that time, [...]