Geography 2143A/B : Geography 2143A - Credit Where It’s Due.docx
31 Jan 2014
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Credit where it"s due sugar trade from the caribbean was the oil of today the caribbean became the dunghill of the universe agriculture progress: one inch of running water during the winter kept frost off and allowed grass to keep growing, turnips were ready in the winter, feeding livestock, clover puts nitrogen into the soil, wheat, corn, turnips, clover (rotating fields, 1720: 30 years of good weather (food prices down, wages up, plowman"s lunch beer, white bread, potatoes, vegetables paper money invented by the dutch in the 1600s replaces gold (allows flow, allows lending and credit spurs on more trade.
