IT 4170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Apulia, Ripeness, Sharecropping
21 Mar 2017
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Used it for cooking but also for cosmetics (essences) Trading routes brought olive tree cultivation and wine to italy. They made olive oil in the islands and them imported them into the mainland. When olive oil arrived in athens, it was forbidden to leave the city. The olympic winners won a bottle of olive oil (5000l) They took the olive tree protection very seriously, since they thought it was given to them by the gods. They fought over attica region (athena and posedion. Posedon gave mankind a horse and athena gave mankind the olive tree (gave heat, nutrition, lighting, food, fertilization) athena won. They didn"t cultivate the olive tree until greece brought it. Imperial taxation- bulk oil tributes to the imperial city. Improvement of cultivation, fertilization, harvesting and storage of olive oil. Olive oil upkeep and production and consumption was used in churches. Olive tree firmly associated with the landscapes od tuscany and catalonia.
