Besides initiation of state guidelines, what were some of the techniques used in Japan to increase agricultural yields?
What will be an ideal response?
A. New techniques increased agricultural yields
1. new, labor-intensive techniques in which whole communities cooperated
a. growing seedlings in nurseries and transplanting them to thefields
2. use of the plow by the ninth or tenth century
a. Japan had little iron for making plows
b. dry farming, which made the heavy plow familiar, spread slowly
3. increased stabling of animals
a. systematic exploitation of them as resources for power
b. farmers were using more and more land to grow crops
4. new crops used benefitted nutrition
a. barley gradually replaced millet as the country's second most important crop after rice
B. Conquest of new environments
1. taken on by freelance holy men
a. Gyoki
1. organized his followers to perform public works
2. building bridges and roads, digging ponds and embankments
3. state contracted Gyoki's workers to undertake official projects
2. frontier expansion
a. northeast Honshu Island also increased amount of available land
b. by 796, the state had settled 9,000 colonists in fortified households on Honshu to cultivate conquered lands
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