Agricultural Revolution
The definition of ‘The Second Agricultural Revolution’.
The increase in productivity of farming through the mechanisation and access to market due to better transport.
The word that refers to 'the evolution of inventions and innovations and catching up with current trend.'
Modernisation
The city named 'The Big Smoke'.
London
The phenomenon of a growing population concentrated in urban areas leads to the growth of towns and cities.
Urbanisation
The type of engine that was used in most factories around 1900.
Steam Engine
The definition of ‘Strip field farming’.
Introduced during the medieval period as a way for villagers to share land. Rented strips of land from landowners.
The location where IR started.
Shropshire, The United Kingdom
The word for a harmful, hazy form of air pollution that is a combination of the words smoke and fog.
Smog
The new machinery which was used to plant seeds in a straight line and cover them with soil.
Jethro Tull’s seed drill
The system which rotates wheat, barley, clover, and turnips over a 4-year period.
4-crop rotation
The time period of the IR.
1750 to around 1900.
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.
Selective breeding
The innovation which prevented the exercise of common grazing and other rights over it.
Enclosures
What were the aspects of the societies that were changed due to IR? (Name at least 3)
Population, Work, Transport, Health and Medicine, Living Conditions
Two of the advantages of agriculture revolution.
1. Poor people could not afford to enclose
2. People lost the right to use the common land
3. Social inequality
The 3 causes of IR.
New Inventions, Natural Resources, Stable Economy and Political System
The political ideology which grew under the IR.
Socialism