Agriculture and Farming Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
22 statements marked Debated.
Swing Riots, DescriptionA wave of uprisings by agricultural laborers across southern and eastern England in 1830, driven by the spread of the threshing machine and collapsing rural wages, and marked by machine-breaking, arson and threatening letters signed by the fictitious Captain Swing. Whether land enclosure or mechanized threshing was the true trigger is argued among historians.
Swing Riots, Milestones
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Concerns Description
Currently States A wave of uprisings by agricultural laborers across southern and eastern England in 1830, driven by the spread of the threshing machine and collapsing rural wages, and marked by machine-breaking, arson and threatening letters signed by the fictitious Captain Swing. Whether land enclosure or mechanized threshing was the true trigger is argued among historians.
Historians differ on the primary driver: Hobsbawm and Rude's tally found land enclosure directly implicated in only three of 1,475 recorded incidents, pointing instead to collapsing wages and the spread of threshing machines; a 2020 quantitative study confirmed a direct link between local threshing-machine presence and rioting.
Source Swing Riots (Wikipedia)
Turkey, Domesticated When (Circa)circa 800 BC to 100 AD, debated
Turkey, Livestock
Standing
Concerns Domesticated When (Circa)
Currently States circa 800 BC to 100 AD, debated
Estimates for pre-Columbian domestication in Mesoamerica range from roughly 800 BC to 100 AD depending on the site and method.
Source Turkey, bird (Wikipedia)