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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions

Agricultural Revelation started in the 1600's in Great Britain and the English Islands (Scotland, North Ireland, and England)
Citizens of different towns were subsistence farmer, their family survives on crops.
As they got into the later 1600's the Encloser Movement went on. It was that any open land was open to anyone who wanted it to farm and it carried on until the 1700's. Because smaller land owners took small farmers land they moved into the cities to find work and food. The farmers were looking for new ways to farm so people were coming up with more efficient ways to farm.
A man named Jethro Toll that when people were seeding their lands that alot of the seed was getting wasted so he invented a thing called the seed drill, which planted seeds in strait rows.
Charles Townson copied a dutch idea called crop rotations, which is that you planted different crops on other crops fields from the years before.

The discovery of iron and metal made farming easier. A metal plow was made and so was a replaceable blade so you didn't have to buy a new plow if it breaks. Their are more workers in the cities so their are more people looking for jobs. Natural resources in Great Britain are great. Iron and coal were two main ones. Their is alot of cotton, also.
Factors of production are things like they are producing more because they have abundant supplies of it.
Great Britain also has alot of river and water. It helped by providing transportation, food, and water mills which provides power. The downside is though that you may have a flood or a draught. Not all big cities were on rivers either.
Textile Industries made clothes from cotton and silk. It is becoming a huge thing.
One of the first factories was a cotton and silk factory. So now people are coming in and working for a flat rate a day.
Efficiency had started going thought the roof.
Steam engines are now being used as a source of power. They found a way how to take water and turn it into power. They helped people get places fastly.
Communication had advanced so much now it is almost double. 
 Great Britain started the Industrial Revaluation in Europe.

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