Hitler believed it was Germany's right to seize the cultivatable land in Russia since according to him, the earth belongs to those people willing to till it " industriously " as opposed to the slothful, incompetent people unworthy to possess it.
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One other thing that has exacerbated the social economic status of the people in this district is the introduction of tea estates a long time ago which took almost all cultivatable land away from the inhabitants leaving them only with casual labouring in the estates as an alternative for survival.
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However, in the Americas the most advanced historical cultures in terms of technology and social organisation were the Incas ( barren mountains ), the Mayans ( malarial swamps and virtually un-cultivatable jungle ), the Aztecs ( baking-hot desert ) and the Iroquois ( rugged hills, and buried under 10 feet of snow for a large chunk of the year ).
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Ultimately, the rate of reclamation fell behind the rate at which such lands were dedicated to the " sangha " . ( The problem was exacerbated to a smaller degree by powerful ministers, who exploited succession disputes and accumulated their own lands at the expense of the crown . ) By 1280, between one and two-thirds of Upper Burma's cultivatable land had been donated to religion.
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Hope-Taylor also theorised that the Anglo-Saxon settlement at Yeavering had been situated there because the site had been important in the preceding Iron Age and Romano-British periods, and that its construction was therefore " a direct and deliberate reference to the traditional native institutions of the area . " Accompanying this symbolic reason for maintaining the seat of power in the vicinity, Hope-Taylor also noted that the area had some of the most easily cultivatable soil in the region, making it ideal for agriculture and the settlement of agricultural communities.
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In 1640, during the first half of the decade, from the writings of Friar Diogo das Chagas identified the church, " " . . . along the sea, in good cultivatable lands, that are not large owing to the rocky ground surrounding it, is the authority and parish of the glorious apostle of Saint Mathew, which is on this located a musket's distance from the coast, and where from hear until the city, just vineyards, of which there are several good estates and authorized hermitages " ".
