Trilla - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:37:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Trilla - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Harvest threshing machine https://historylab.es/harvest-threshing-machine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvest-threshing-machine Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:26 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/maquina-para-trillar-las-mieses/ Drawing of "Máquina para trillar las mises" by Lorenzo Sánchez Mansilla. It is an illustration of the work: "Dissertación de la máquina para trillar", by Juan Cristóbal Manzanares

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]]> Throughout the Modern Age, agriculture was one of the main sectors of the economy. Especially from the 16th century onwards, it experienced significant growth as a result of the increase in population. Agricultural expansion was evident both in the increase in cereal land and in the prosperity of vineyards. After the 17th century, which saw a certain economic decline in various areas, the 18th century saw a resumption of growth that was accompanied by a series of agricultural reforms, promoted by the Enlightenment, which sought to modernise the structures of land ownership and tenure and to increase agricultural production. The image shows a machine used for threshing crops, a process used to remove the grain from the straw on land where cereal crops were grown.

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