10 sentences with 'crops'
Example sentences and phrases with the word crops and other words derived from it.
• « Ploughs are hugely important; they opened up areas of cultivation that would be too rocky or the soil too hard to support crops normally. »
• « Not only did they tax the wealth, crops and property of Uruk's subjects, but they also had the right to demand labour, requiring the common people (i.e. almost everyone) to work on irrigation systems, temples and other important public buildings. »
• « Like their Mesopotamian neighbours, the Egyptians lived in a redistributive economy, an economy in which crops were taken directly from farmers (i.e. peasants) by the king's agents and then redistributed. »
• « The first factor in the dramatic population increase was the simple cessation of large-scale invasions. With relative social stability, peasants were able to plant and harvest crops consistently and not see them eaten by hungry troops or see their fields trampled. »
• « Thus, the overall yield of edible crops increased dramatically. Likewise, with the increased variety, the actual nutritional content of the food improved. »
• « When crops failed, the poor often flocked to the cities in search of some kind of respite, be it work or church-based charity. »
• « In the following decades, then, many peasants benefited from higher prices for their labour and crops. »
• « The average lifespan of a slave who was introduced into sugar cultivation was seven years before dying of exhaustion or injury, and sugar was the main crop in the Caribbean and one of the main crops in Brazil. »