Agricultural Revolution
The definition of ‘The Second Agricultural Revolution’.
What is the increase in productivity of farming through the mechanisation and access to market due to better transport?
The evolution of inventions and innovations and catching up with current trend.
What is modernisation?
The word for fog mixed with chemicals, smoke produced by industries.
What is Smog?
The phenomenon of a growing population concentrated in urban areas leads to the growth of towns and cities.
What is Urbanisation?
This type of engine that was used in most factories around 1900.
What is Steam Engine?
The Strip field farming
What was introduced during the medieval period as a way for villagers to share land?
This English county where the Industrial Revolution began
What is Shropshire, United Kingdom?
The city named 'The Big Smoke'.
What is London?
These five aspects of society were transformed by the Industrial Revolution. Name at least three.
What are population, work, transport, health and medicine, and living conditions?
This new machinery was used to plant seeds in a straight line and cover them with soil.
What is Jethro Tull’s seed drill?
The system which rotates wheat, barley, clover, and turnips over a 4-year period.
What was 4-crop rotation?
This main period of the Industrial Revolution.
1750 to around 1900.
This many people lost their lives during the 1952 Great Smog of London
What is 12000?
Two consequences for children who helped coal miners underground.
What are damage to eyesight, respiratory disease, and fear of explosions?
The method of beeding where the farmer only allowed the fittest and strongest cattle, sheep, pigs or horses to mate to improve the overall quality of the breed.
What is Selective breeding?
The innovation which prevented the exercise of common grazing and other rights over it.
What were enclosures?
The person who successfully used coke instead of charcoal to smelt iron at his furnace in Coalbrookdale.
Who is Abraham Darby I?
This number of days the 1952 Great Smog of London lasted.
What is 5?
Children who scavenged for coal and scraps in the River Thames, London.
What are Mudlarks?
This was the first technology to separate communication from transportation, allowing a message to travel faster than a human for the first time in history.
What is the telegraph?
Two of the advantages of agriculture revolution.
What caused 1. poor people could not afford to enclose, 2. people lost the right to use the common land, 3. social inequality？
These three factors caused the Industrial Revolution.
What are new inventions, natural resources, and a stable economy and political system?
As early as the 1200s, polluted air became a problem for this reason.
What is factories switching to coal for heating, which created smoke and harmful chemicals?
The political ideology which grew under the IR.
What is Socialism?
This invention made it easy to separate cotton seeds from fibre.
What is the Cotton Gin?