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compare and contrast how were slash-and-burn agriculture and chinampas similar, and how were they different ?

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Answer:

Slash and burn- is cutting down and burned off before new seeds are sown, typically used as a method for clearing forest land for farming.

Chinampas it is a technique used in mesopotamia which relies on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds

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They were both used in ancient agriculture and used by ancient civilizations.

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