Mayan agriculture
a. Involved walled fields with guards to protect them from poachers.
b. Produced a money crop that was used in trade, rather than for food.
c. Used mostly slave labor close to the city.
d. Used natural fertilizers, which resulted in year-round agriculture.
e. Developed sophisticated slave-drawn plows.
c
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