Medieval agriculture

medieval crop rotation

thumb|Hop flower in a hop yard in the Hallertau, Germany thumb|Cross-section drawing of a hop alt=Full grown hops .|thumb|upright=1.3|Fully grown Vine#Twining vines|hops bines ready for harvest on the [[Yakama Indian Reservation]] thumb|Humulus on a house

Farming practices, crops, technology, and socioeconomics

thumb | right | alt=alt=refer to caption | Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval embroidered cloth depicting the conquest of England in 1066 AD. The carruca or caruca was a kind of heavy plow important to medieval agriculture in Northern Europe. The carruca used a heavy iron plowshare to turn heavy soil and may have required a team of eight oxen. The carruca also bore a coulter and moldboard. It gave its name to the English carucate.