ocr: area of the Mesara (below an altitude of 200 meters) is about 18,000 hectares, or 70 square miles. Wheat yields in Crete in the 1930s were about 140 kilograms per hectare per year. Assuming that the yield was the same in Minoan times and also that the entire plain was under wheat, the Mesara could have produced about 2.5 million kilograms of wheat annually. Among the records from Knossos are tablets that may indicate the yield from the Mesara. Ifthe tablets have been interpreted correctly, they show a maximum wheat yield from the Mesara of about 775,000 kilograms. That figure is somewhat less ...
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