Night soil (town waste spread on the fields): what it changes for a pre-industrial city
Night soil (town waste spread on the fields): harvests +5%.
A city of 20,000 on a river, in a temperate forest
- With it: 4,500 km² of countryside, 1.5 days by cart (strained)
- Without it: 4,800 km² of countryside, 1.5 days by cart (strained)
Ages that know it
Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, Middle Ages, c. 1300, Early modern, 18th century
Other techniques
Heavy plough, Three-field rotation, Clover and turnips, Horse collar, Manure, Marl and lime, Guano and nitrates, Irrigation, Watermills, Windmills, Coal, Metalled roads, Canals and locks, Ocean-going ships, Herring busses and salting at sea, Paper mill, Printing press, Gunpowder, Aqueduct and fountains, Sewers, Filtered water, Vaccination
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