Edexcel GCSE History · 1HI0
Paper 2
Revise: English SocietyThe crops and fallow land changed position each year: this was crop rotation. Wheat, rye, barley and oats were important cereal crops; peas and beans were also grown.
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GCSE History · key term
Changing the crops grown in a field over successive years. In the three-field system, crops and a fallow year rotated between the fields.
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Paper 2
Revise: English SocietyThe crops and fallow land changed position each year: this was crop rotation. Wheat, rye, barley and oats were important cereal crops; peas and beans were also grown.
Distinguish crop rotation from strip farming: rotation changed how fields were used over successive years; strips divided land between cultivators.
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