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appyboo

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Techniques of intensive agriculture in pre-Columbian Mexico and the Andes included:
 
  a. the use of horse-drawn plows.
  b. long fallow periods to permit soil recovery.
  c. shifting cultivation.
  d. building raised fields in swamps and stepped terraces on hillsides.

Question 2

A system of cultivation in which plots are planted annually or semiannually and usually uses irrigation, natural fertilizers, and plows powered by animals is called:
 
  a. extensive horticulture.
  b. intensive agriculture.
  c. intensive pastoralism.
  d. extensive cultivation.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B



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