Agriculture During the Middle Ages

Football and agriculture actually share parallel history. This fact is true when you look at the history of the European lands from which football first arose.

Agriculture and Sports

It is known that the United Kingdom or England is responsible for introducing the modern football that we all know about. However, different variants of football were already being played across the European continent during the Dark or Middle Ages. At this time, agriculture was the centre of everything. There were only three kinds of legitimate jobs that a person in the Middle Ages can choose from: a merchant, a farmer/fisherman and a soldier. Soldiers and knights rely on the taxes that merchants remit to them for their revenue; merchants, on the other hand, rely on the produce that local farmers around the town sell to them. That was how commerce was during the Middle Ages. Entire towns and castles were built just to attract the attention of farmers and merchants in order for the knights and warlords to earn their upkeep.