> When the plough was invented, did they plough the same field in less time To be precise, before the plough was invented, they didn't plough. They often used

> When the plough was invented, did they plough the same field in less time To be precise, before the plough was invented, they didn't plough. They often used hoes instead [0]. Intuitively, the plough would have let farmers process a greater area in the same time. But whether they did work a larger area might have depended on other factors such as land ownership - e.g. who owned the plot adjacent to yours. The actual history of agriculture is quite fascinating [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoe-farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoe-farming [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture