Syriac Agriculture 350–1250
2018
This chapter describes some facets of the ways in which ‘ordinary’ Syrians
lived their lives in Late Antiquity. It explores the different landscapes
and climatic regions covered by the Syriac-speaking communities, the
networks of physical communications that existed between those communities,
the variety of crop types that were cultivated in the region as well as new
varieties that were introduced during Late Antiquity, and types of animal
husbandry. Also mentioned is the specific contributions of the Syriac
communities towards the transmission of special agricultural and botanical
knowledge in antiquity. Stress is laid on continuities over time and also on
the level of integration of the Christian Syriac communities into the wider
economic networks of the whole region.
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