It is said that the soil can recover from cash crop productions if you leave it unplanted for a while. It was not possible, though, to the small farmers. Since they needed the money to survive, the small farmer did not have the luxury to wait for long periods. Since they needed to keep selling crops to survive, they didn't really have the time to let soil recover.
Leaving fields unplanted allowed soil to recover from cash crops production, but <span>it was impossible for poor farmers who needed the money from the sale of their crops </span>
The first temples were mostly mud, brick, and marble structures on stone foundations. The columns and superstructure (entablature) were wooden, door openings and antae were protected with wooden planks. The mud brick walls were often reinforced by wooden posts, in a type of half-timbered technique.
