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about three football fields are gone every second, you can do the maths.
Much of the forest was cleared for farmland.
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Much of the agricultural land now needs to be cleared of explosives.
Caribbean islands had ideal climates for growing sugarcane, so much of the land was converted into sugarcane plantations.
Caribbean islands had ideal climates for growing sugarcane, so much of the land was converted into sugarcane plantations.
20%
Pretty much all plantations that produce timber and wood pulp for paper - Google SAPI for starters although there are a number of independent plantations
Put the eastern and western hemispheres together, and you have every bit of the land on Earth.
Southern colonies had rich soil and warm climate
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Southern plantations were large and needed many workers, but most southern colonists lived on small family farms. plantations, but small farms were much more common.