6 sentences with “plough”

2. The metal plough, which people invented around 5000 BCE.

These ploughs were called carruca: a plough capable of digging deep into the soil and turning it over, bringing air into the topsoil and refreshing its mineral and nutrient content.

They had, in Marx's language, some kind of protected access to "the means of production", which could mean anything from some land, a plough and an ox to a workshop stocked with carpenter's tools.

The ploughs were like those used in ancient Rome: the weight of the plough was carried on a stick that passed through the animal's neck. Therefore, if the load was too heavy the animal would simply suffocate.

Although the Jeffersonian vision of the colonisation of America's new territories assumed that white peasants would single-handedly plough small, independent farms, the reality turned out to be quite different.

The inscriptions also depict a human figure with a plough and archers wounding an animal. The interpretation of the archaeologists is that these figures are a representation of the phases of agricultural life, as well as being linked to religious rites and ceremonies.