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Question 54

A village leaves one of its fields unsown for a whole year. What did that achieve?

  1. It hid the growing crop from raiders passing through the district that year
  2. It let the soil recover, and grazing animals left manure on itCorrect answer
  3. It obeyed a rule of the Church about resting the ground
  4. It took the field out of farming for good

Explanation

A year without a crop let the ground rebuild what grain had taken out of it, and villagers turned their beasts onto the resting field so that the dung went straight back into the soil. Treating the practice as a church rule is a natural but wrong inference, because village life was full of religious observance, yet this arrangement was a farming technique settled by the villagers and their lord.

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