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What word means building dams and ditches to water crops?
It sounds like you're referring to irrigation, where water is diverted by ditches and canals to make land more suitable for planting crops. Irrigation ditches can divert water from free-flowing rivers and streams or from reservoirs created by dams.
What land did Robert La Salle Claim?
In 1682, LaSalle traveled down the Illinois River to the Mississippi and continued all the way south to the Gulf of Mexico. On April 9, 1682 La Salle claimed all of the Mississippi River Basin for France. That was an enormous amount of land because it included all the rivers and streams that feed into the Mississippi, and all of the land between. It includes much of the western part of North America. He named this area Louisiana in honor of the king. Later, in 1803, France sold this land to the United States, and that led to the explorations of Lewis and Clark and then the westward expansion of America.
How did the Tudors live?
Life in Tudor Britain was harsh - the average life expectancy was just 35 years.Most Tudor people lived in the countryside, but some people lived in towns or big Tudor cities like London, Bristol or Norwich.Tudor England was a farming society. Most of the population (over 90 %) lived in small villages and made their living from farming. Under Tudor rule England became a more peaceful and richer place. Towns grew larger and the mining of coal, tin and lead became very popular.HomelifeThere were none of the comforts we have today. Water was collected from village pumps, wells or streams but was often polluted.Tudor ToiletsToilets were called 'Privies' and were not very private at all. They were often just a piece of wood over a bowl or a hole in the ground.People would wipe their bottoms with leaves or moss and the wealthier people used soft lamb's wool.In palaces and castles, which had a moat, the lords and ladies would retire to a toilet set into a cupboard in the wall called a garderobe. Here the waste would drop down a shaft into the moat below.GarderobeThe RichWealthy Tudors loved to show of their riches. The clothes they wore and the homes they lived in were all signs of their place in society.Click here to read about the clothes people wore and the homes they livedFoodFood was another show of wealth. The rich could afford all kinds of meats and fish and expensive French wine. The best food was considered to be roast veal and venison.People also ate robins, badgers, otters, tortoises and seagulls.Find out more about food eatenEntertainmentThe types of sports or pastimes a person did was another sign of their rank or wealth. The rich had time for falconry, hunting, jousting, tennis and bowls.Find out more about entertainmentThe PoorThe poor had to work hard and struggled to survive. They worked six days a week and only had holy days and public holidays off work. They ate coarse grey bread made from rye and barley. Soups were made from vegetables and herbs. Meat was a luxury but poor people sometimes kept animals to provide milk, cheese and eggs.Life for the poor in Tudor times was harsh. When the harvest failed it was tempting for poor people to steal food. When people did break the law, they risked public flogging or being hanged.More information on the poorFurther Informationlife in the tudor times was nasty, there were things like:the slave tradethe black plaguethere were also good things, one of the things are that elizabeth I was very nice
What wrong with the world?
No question is foolish. Perhaps a fundamental and curable problem is a lack of critical thinking by leadership. Another answer might be the dependence of Western society upon Capitalism. Capitalism advances the false logic that change is most rapid when intellectual knowledge is proprietary. Capitalists will suggest that this motivates private enterprises to innovate because there is a profit motive. Instead, innovation is stifled when discoveries cannot be patented. Important avenues of medicine go unexplored because the discoveries don't lead to profit. Competition is stifled, not encouraged because corporations with patented technology are not fully engaged in the desirable race to production. Valuable technology can be bought and suppressed in order to maintain existing revenue streams using inappropriate fossil fuel technology. Corporations have little desire to innovate to new technology when doing so would interfere with existing revenue streams and require upgrades to infrastructure. Truly important opportunities that facilitate free movement and information exchange are not achieved expressly because free implies no profit motive. Some of the most important industrial and social advancements arise because nations constructed free-ways and railways and the information super highway. The planet faces several threats: nuclear and military proliferation, climate change, catastrophic weather events, earth-quakes, tsunamis, fire storms, asteroid strikes, lunar orbit decay, pollution, over-population, political and social manipulation, resistance of religions to progressive thinking, a culture preoccupied with self, a lack of empathy, a lack of commitment and perseverance, cultural obsession with distraction rather than social consciousness, a lack of focussed education and training, a lack of Effective Leadership coupled with a growing cynicism and loss of faith in the political system. A time line is necessary for the introduction of solutions to the global money supply crisis. Money is required to drive employment, consumption and distribution of goods therefore an expansionary money supply is highly desirable. Demilitarization and Effective Democratic Meritocracy are the necessary antecedents to the creation of an Indexed Global Money Supply. It could be indexed by population, crisis and need. It should not deprive private individuals of a reasonable share of their property however it might be used to liquidate national debts and provide solvency for predictable, solvable & prudent infrastructure needs. It might also be used to address mobilization and response for crisis relief.
What is the history of hardy county VA 1750?
Hardy County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2000, the population is 12,669. Its county seat is Moorefield. Hardy County was created from Hampshire County in 1786 and named for Samuel Hardy, a distinguished Virginian 18th century In 1756, Fort Pearsall was constructed on Job Pearsall's plantation for protection against Native American raids and George Washington provisioned and garrisoned the Fort at various times until 1758. At that time, there were at least 100 people living in the general area. Following the end of hostilities in the area, Lord Fairfax recognized that more settlers would be interested in moving into the area and that he could earn some extra revenue by selling plots in the town. He sent a survey party to Romney in 1762 to formally lay out the town into 100 lots. At that time, he renamed the town Romney, in honor of the Cinque Ports city on the English Channel in Kent. Confusion ensued for several decades concerning land ownership within the town as counterclaims were made by the original settlers and those who purchased lots laid out by Lord Fairfax's surveyors. The first meeting of the Hampshire County Court was held in 1757, at Fort Pleasant, now Old Fields in Hardy County, and was presided by the Right Honorable Thomas Bryan Martin, Lord Fairfax's nephew. By that time, Hampshire County's population had fallen dramatically as most of the settlers had fled the county in fear of the Native Americans. The only families remaining lived near Fort Pearsall, near present-day Romney, and Fort Edwards, at present-day Capon Bridge on the Cacapon River. The vast majority of the remaining settlers, however, were in the vicinity of present Old Fields-Moorefield-Petersburg and were protected by the several forts in the area, including Fort Pleasant Once the Native Americans were defeated at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774 settlers, once again, returned to the county. By 1790, when the first national census was taken, Hampshire County had 7,346 residents, making it the second most populous county in the present state of West Virginia at that time. Berkeley was the most populous county, with 19,713 people. There were nine counties that comprised the present state, with a total population of 55,873 people. During the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, many Hampshire County men volunteered to serve under Major General Daniel Morgan to put down the insurrection. The men most likely volunteered at Moorefield in Hardy County and then marched north to Cumberland, Maryland. Approximately 1,200 of the 12,950 men under Morgan's command came from the area that would later become West Virginia. Not only in a material way were the people of the county developing wealth but in an even more important way did they continue to advance. The early missionaries helped to sustain the religious faith of the early inhabitants. In 1775 two Baptist missionaries among a group of settlers moved to the Cacapon and organized the first church in the county. In 1771 the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church was begun, in which later developments led to the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1753 Hampshire County had been formed into a parish by the Protestant Episcopal Church and in 1773 a missionary sent by that church began work. In 1787 a Primitive Baptist church was established at North River. Soon after the American Revolution there was preaching by the Presbyterians at different points in the county. In 1792 a Presbyterian church was organized at Romney and another, Mount Bethel Church, at Three Churches. The wide lowlands of Hampshire County certainly invited agriculture, and fields of wheat and tobacco surrounded the important truck-patch of the settler. The rolling uplands offered pasturage for horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs, which were driven across country to market at Winchester. The streams abounded in fish and the mountains contained not only game but timber and stone for early settlers' homes. The limestone was burned for lime at Bloomery Gap, where remains of old lime-kilns give evidence of an early industry. Soon it was discovered that some of the strata contained iron ore. Much of it was transported to present-day Keyser, from an area along South Branch Potomac River south of the present limits of the county. In Bloomery Gap, a ruined furnace still stands, mute evidence of another former industry. In the early days the increasing population stimulated not only farming and grazing but every industry of a new country.
