Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity
Subtitle: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199244409
First sentence: When the merchant Ibn Hauqal described the countryside of Egypt around the middle of the tenth century, the distribution of cash crops was dominated by a certain specialization, with Assouan (Syene) noted for its abundance of date palms, Ashmunein for flax, 'Fayyum' (the former Arsinoe) for fruit orchards and rice cultivation, Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) for its diversified textile industry, and so on.