Cassius Dionysius made a Greek translation of a Punic book on this subject by Mago.
Cassius Dionysius made a Greek translation of a Punic book on this subject by Mago. Pietro de Crescenzi's later book about this thing was based on a 12-book treatise by Columella. Arthur Young studied this subject while traveling in france, arguing that the metayage system and the nobility made France worse than Britain at it. In the 20th century, Norman Borlaug made drastic improvements to this process. The Tableau économique argued that all wealth came from surpluses in (*) this activity, a view held by François Quesnay and the physiocrats. This activity was improved in Britain by an invention of Jethro Tull, and medieval practitioners of it used the three-field system. For 10 points, name this activity aided by the seed drill and the plow.
Cassius Dionysius made a Greek translation of a Punic book on this subject by Mago.
farming [or agriculture; or growing wheat; or growing rice; prompt on \"land\"; prompt on \"food production\" or similar]