Mao's policy of commune farming
<span>1959-1961 </span>
<span>The famine triggered by the "Great Leap Forward" was one of the largest man-made disasters in human history. Estimates of the number of casualties vary greatly and are difficult, if not impossible, to verify. Conservative estimates assume that from 1958 to 1961, over 14 million people died of starvation, and the number of reported births was about 23 million fewer than under normal conditions. Other authors have estimated the number of famine-related death of up to 30 million or higher
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We can not say that this areas are not civilized or to call them backwards. We may call them different. We can take for example the uses of animals in order to expand the commerce of their area. If we research about the use of camels, for example, we could see that it gained an special place within those who wanted to travel through many difficult areas like deserts. So in the case of camels they were not backwards, they used a different method to obtain success
The territory of a duke or duchess is called a Duchy.
