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A historian claims that medieval European farmers deliberately rotated their crops to keep the soil fertile.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. Manor records from the period show fields planted with wheat one year, beans the next, and left fallow the third, in a repeating cycle.Correct
- B. Medieval farmers ploughed their fields with wooden ploughs.
- C. Beans can grow in poor soil.
- D. Farmers today rotate their crops to protect the soil.
Answer: A. Manor records from the period show fields planted with wheat one year, beans the next, and left fallow the third, in a repeating cycle.
A repeating planned cycle recorded at the time is direct evidence of deliberate rotation.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Medieval farmers ploughed their fields with wooden ploughs.
- Plough material has nothing to do with rotation.
- C. Beans can grow in poor soil.
- A fact about beans doesn't show that farmers rotated anything.
- D. Farmers today rotate their crops to protect the soil.
- What farmers do today says nothing about medieval practice.
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