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page 22, exercises 8

A founding father of farming

• Ibn Bassal was a writer, a scientist, and an engineer.
• Ibn Bassal lived in Al-Andalus in the eleventh century CE and worked in the court of Al-Ma'mun.
• Al-Ma'mun was the King of Toledo.

• Ibn Bassal's passions were botany, which is the study of plants, and agriculture.

• Ibn Bassal was a practical man.

• Ibn Bassal achieved many things like:  A Book of Agriculture, designing water pumps and irrigation systems.

• The book of Agriculture consisted of sixteen chapters.

• The sixteen chapters explain how best to grow trees, fruit and vegetables, as well as herbs and sweet-smelling flowers; perhaps the most famous chapter of all was the one that described how to treat different types of soil.

• Ibn Bassal also worked out how to irrigate the land by finding underground water and digging wells. 
• The land became wonderfully fertile and produced more than enough food because farmers down the generations followed Ibn Bassal's instructions and advice.

•  Ibn Bassal is not widely known, but his legacy to the world has been great.

   

  Pronoun reference
  Word	Line	Reference
  Who	2	Ibn Bassal
  He	3	Ibn Bassal
  who	4	Al-Ma’mun
  His	5	Ibn Bassal
  which	6	botany
  he	7	Ibn Bassal
  his	9	Ibn Bassal
  which	11	One of the many things
  which	14	sixteen chapters
  one	19	the most famous chapter
  He	22	Ibn Bassal
  his	24	Ibn Bassal
  that	32	The irrigation systems
  his	33	Ibn Bassal

   

 

 

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