Non-regulated and regulated soil changing system
unregulated soil changing system
A system of cultivating land preceeding the regulated soil changing system. A certain territory of land was cultivated till its exhaustion, then the settlement moved away together with their animals. The land fertilised by the animals and cultivated till its exhaustion was the patch, the uncultivated land was the waste land. It was used in Hungary till the beginning of the 13th century, in Europe till the 8th century. In other words it was called the wild soil changing system, or the wild or unregulated wasting system.
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regulated soil changing system
A cultivating system used after the unregulated soil changing system. The waste and patch teriitories was regularly changed. There are no marked patches, everybody could use their land as he wished till the next division. The time of change was between 2-3 and 6-8 years. It appeared in Hungary in the 13th cenrury, and it was in use in Transdanubia till the 14-15th centuries, in the Great Plain till the 18th century.
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