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Ard (plough): History, Applications & Regions

The ard, ard plough, or scratch plough is a simple light plough without a mouldboard. It is symmetrical on either side of its line of draft and is fitted with a symmetrical share that traces a shallow furrow but does not invert the soil. It began to be replaced in China by the heavy carruca turnplough in the 1st century, and in most of Europe from the…

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Ard (plough) topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Applications and Regions as prominent areas in the source structure around Ard (plough).

Related topics
64
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
69
Extracted relationships
8
Related term clusters
6
Bridge connections
69

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Types · 24 topics
History · 20 topics
Use · 14 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Gallery · 1 topics

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How Ard (plough) connects Entity context

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Important terminology

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Important terminology

ard share body soil ards bow stilt two china europe head use used shallow cutting made wooden fitted spain soils

Ard (plough) relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 8 structured relationships around Ard (plough). Examples in this analysis include loams or sands → instance of → The ard is most useful on light soils and along irrigated canals → instance of → This restricted their use to obstacle-free soils. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
loams or sandsinstance ofThe ard is most useful on light soils0.80text
or in mountain fields where the soil is thininstance ofThe ard is most useful on light soils0.80text
and can be safely used in areas where deep ploughing would turn up hardpan or would cause salination or erosion.Ards may be drawn by oxeninstance ofThe ard is most useful on light soils0.80text
water buffaloinstance ofThe ard is most useful on light soils0.80text
donkeysinstance ofThe ard is most useful on light soils0.80text
camelsinstance ofThe ard is most useful on light soils0.80text
or other animalsinstance ofThe ard is most useful on light soils0.80text
along irrigated canalsinstance ofThis restricted their use to obstacle-free soils0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Ard (plough) bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Body, Sole and Stilt. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Ard (plough)
    • Body
    • Sole
    • Stilt
    • Bow
    • Furrows
    • Separate
    • Cutting
    • Europe
    • Two
    • Use
    • Used
    • Soil
  • ard (plough)
    • Body
    • Sole
    • Stilt
    • Bow
    • Furrows
    • Separate
    • Cutting
    • Europe
    • Two
    • Use
    • Used
    • Soil
  • china
    • Brace
    • Europe
    • Body
    • Citation
    • Draft-pole
    • Needed
    • Wooden
    • Made
    • Soils
    • Ard
    • Used
    • Stilt
  • use
    • Cutting
    • Furrows
    • Shallow
    • Soil
    • Ard
    • Also
    • Furrow
    • Soils
    • Europe
    • Two
    • Share
  • spain
    • Portugal
    • Body
    • Citation
    • Needed
    • Separate
    • Cutting
    • Soils
    • Ard
    • Soil
    • Share
  • portugal
    • Spain
    • Separate
    • Soils
    • Soil
    • Share

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ard (plough), one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ard (plough) with Types. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Ard (plough) — Types · splits 45 ⟂ 25
Ard (plough) — History · splits 49 ⟂ 21
Ard (plough) — Use · splits 55 ⟂ 15
Ard (plough) — Overview · splits 64 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ard (plough)

Nodes70
Edges69
Triples8
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028571
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Ard (plough) to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Applications & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Ard (plough) · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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