agriculture

With the presented borders below, theoretically how big population could the area of Kingdom of Hungary support in the Middle Ages? What are the biggest possible numbers? Thank you in advance for your answers!

All water lilies or lotuses' tubers and rhizomes can be used as food items, usually eaten boiled or roasted, though many varieties' tubers can be eaten raw. Rhizome formation usually coincides with the appearance of large floating leaves on the surface of the water, about 5-6 months after its...

Many time ago in a galaxy far far away I made a thread where people gave me knowlegde (for free, mind you!) about the moroccan economy in the middle ages, now I need information about the french economy. My old thread...

With a POD no later than 1900, how effective could Russian Empire/Soviet Union (whichever one works for the scenario) agriculture become? With what reforms? What maximum population could be supported by a Soviet Union with highly developed agriculture? What should have changed to prevent the...

I know that some sort of anthropogenic climate disaster destroyed the agriculture of a region of the United States, but what sort of disaster was it? Did it have something to do with erosion or deforestation or both and thus could've been avoided?

The challenge, with any POD since the establishment of the first sedentary human agricultural settlements there (i.r.o. 7000 BCE in the Wahgi Valley, more than 1000 years before the establishment of comparable agricultural settlements on Jomon-era Honshu), is to come up with a plausible...

The qanat was an ancient Persian technology to collect subterranean water by building a sequence of channels starting (underground) in the mountains and sloping down into irrigated farmland. It is actually still used today in Iran. This technology spread to Armenia and Kurdistan, but as far as...

So, it is a common wisdom that medieval agriculture and medieval agricultural technology were much more advanced than ancient Roman agriculture. Because I'm not a specialist of the matter, I asked you weather and how the medieval agriculture was superior to the ancient one? Had they better...

Northern *New Mexico, ca. 10,500 BCE The chorus of whistling birds filled the early morning with joyous sound, masking the footfalls of the hunter as he trod gingerly through the scrub grasses. Out into the scrubland he had dashed, following the familiar traces until he'd come nearly within...

Since I am reading Jared's Lands of Red and Gold again and I was thinking about native transport and distances in that TL, a simple thought had suddenly occured to me : WI, in an ATL, some marsupial species had evolved into a sufficiently horse-like or camelid-like creature ? Simply put, into...