Its not equivalent to walking 50 kilometers since its an area measurement and farming doesn’t require to cover every single meter but yea it did require walking many kilometers and not just that but doing manual work too (sowing, taking weeds out, cutting the grain, moving the grain, etc…) nowadays its all done with machinery so 5ha is done in a breeze, but back then it was a gargantuan amount of work.
Also you have your math wrong:
50,000square meters =/= 50 square kilometers
1 square meter = 1x10^-6 square kilometers
The vatican area is 50ha, 5ha would be 1/10 of the vatican. Still a huge area to farm by hand and horse.
Its not equivalent to walking 50 kilometers since its an area measurement and farming doesn’t require to cover every single meter but yea it did require walking many kilometers and not just that but doing manual work too (sowing, taking weeds out, cutting the grain, moving the grain, etc…) nowadays its all done with machinery so 5ha is done in a breeze, but back then it was a gargantuan amount of work.
Also you have your math wrong:
The vatican area is 50ha, 5ha would be 1/10 of the vatican. Still a huge area to farm by hand and horse.
Ouch now I look like an amerikkkan😦
That’s what I get for using non-standard metric measurements