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Farmers in ancient used a team of oxen to pull the plough or a farm cart. Sometimes they used slaves to pull the plough perhaps six slaves replacing a pair of oxen. Often the slaves went naked.
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Did Ra the Egyptian god use a staff to pull the sun across the sky?
No
What is the plow used for?
It is used for digging soil out. Today we use tractor instead of a plow.
Mesopotamians used the plow to make their farmland more productive. What was necessary to use the plow?
the domestication of oxen
What kind of animals did the medieval farming use to pull the plows?
Early on, farmers used horses, mules, and oxen. The invention of the horse collar changed things because it made a horse more efficient than an ox at pulling a plow, which meant that a farmer could do more work in a day with a horse than with an ox. After this change, which might have been in the 6th century, horses were very much preferred.
How the mesopotamian farmers use the spears and the axes?
Farmers didn't use them
What did Egyptian farmers use to pull plows?
oxen, slaves
What do farmers use to till land?
Farmers use a tractor and a plow or chisleplow to till land
Why was the sulky plow invented?
it was invented because it allowed farmers to use a horse to move the plow insteasd of doing it themselves
What does the steel plow?
The steel plow breaks up tough soil without the soil getting stuck to it. JOHN DEERe invented the steel plow because farmers in the Midwest could not use the cast-iron plow because they kept breaking. The Midwest soil was unlike the Northeast soil, and the cast-iron plow was made for the Northeast farmers to use.
Do farmers still use oxen to pull their plows?
No. It just made it easier to control the oxen as they were being used to plow fields and for the oxen to pull the plow, and it made it more efficient to be able to use more than one ox to use for plowing. But it never made oxen plow fields faster than horses do. Horses are always going to be faster and more high-stepping than an ox will ever be.
Why do farmers not use machinery?
Most farmers DO use machinery- if they can afford it, and it is available in their area. A tractor, plow, combine, hay mower, etc are all machinery.
What is the functions of hand tractor?
hand tractor is use to pull a plow and horrow in preparing a large area of land..
What you Egyptian farmers use to water their crops?
they used cannals?
What is the use of tractor?
is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.
What technology did Egyptian farmers use to get water from the Nile to the field?
irrigation
What do farmers use to plow a field?
A plow. (or a plough) It's an implement usually pulled by a tractor through the field, but in some countries of the world, it's still pulled by draft animals.
What technology did Egyptian farmers use to get water water from the Nile to their fields?
irrigation
