Plough

Period

c. 6000 BC

Map

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A plough or plow is a farm tool for loosening or turning soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil. It has been fundamental to farming for most of history. The earliest ploughs had no wheels; such a plough was known to the Romans as an aratrum. Celtic peoples first came to use wheeled ploughs in the Roman era.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. c. 6000 BCPloughThis page
2. c. 3200 BCCuneiform
3. c. 2300 BCFounding of the Akkadian Empire
4. c. 1754 BCCode of Hammurabi

Who ruled this land

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