Silkworm Mountage and Harvesting Techniques
Mountage
Mountage, also called cocoonage, is a device that helps or supports the silkworms for comfortable spinning their cocoons. It is round or rectangular-shaped and is formed of bamboo mat supported by split bamboo reapers on all sides. Bamboo strips are fixed in a spiral/circular fusion on the bamboo mats. It has a capacity of 1,000 worms.
Screen-type Mountage
It is made of bamboo or wooden or plastic reapers on which longitudinal strips with triangular peaks are placed. It can be folded and stored,
Read MoreUnderstanding Arable Farming and Agricultural Landscapes
What is arable farming?
Arable farming comprises the economic activities and techniques relating to the treatment of soil and cultivation of land for food production.
Explain the characteristics of arable farming
Characteristics of arable farming
Arable farming is influenced by physical and human factors.
Geographical factors. The climate, relief and soil type define the distribution of crops. Crops require certain temperature and humidity conditions. Plains tend to favour arable farming, and soil fertility
Read MoreEconomic Systems, Sectors, and Globalization
Capitalism: This is based on a free market economy (the law of supply and demand between producers and consumers). Private ownership (individual or companies) of the means of production, freedom to work and hire. State intervention on a small scale.
Communism: In this system, the economy is planned and centralized by the state. The production process is controlled and the state is the owner of the means of production. Private property and initiative do not exist, only state-owned properties. Its
Read MoreThe Global Population: Distribution, Evolution, and Structure
The Population of the planet
❑ Population refers to all the people who live in a certain geographic territory.
Population distribution
- There are at least 7.7 billion inhabitants on the Earth.
- They are distributed unevenly around the world.
❑ Population density measures how many inhabitants live in 1 square kilometre (km2). This measure is expressed as Inhabit/km2
Principal factors affecting population distribution
✓ The main factors that favor human settlement in some areas & not others are:
- Physical.
Protestant Reformation and Spanish Habsburg Dynasty
The Protestant Reformation
The Reformation was a religious movement which began in the first half of the 16th century. It instigated the division of the Christian church and the founding of protestant churches.
Causes of the Reformation
- The low clergy’s lack of training.
- The bad example set by the high clergy, they did not respect the customs or morals that they preached.
- The church’s wealth. The high clergy lived a life of luxury. The church possessed extensive lands and taxed the humble population.
Societal Development and Migration Patterns
Traditional Societies
Similar to rural societies (in political, economic, and cultural ways to those that existed before the industrial revolution. Also called pre-industrial.
- Most of them work in agricultural and livestock farming activities.
- Their production is based on survival.
- They manufacture things artisanally.
- Very stable and controlled behavior (by religious and moral codes).
- Communication between them and villages is very limited. Only a few have the opportunity to travel or hear news from the