Agrarian Revolution

Question 1

What is the Agrarian Revolution?

Answer 1

A growing population which led to the development of bigger farms and improved the farming practices to increase food population between 1701- 1850.

Question 2

What are the causes of the agrarian revolution?

Answer 2

*Land consolidation
*Development of new methods of livestock breathing
*Population Increase
*Development of new tools for farming
*Impact of industrial revolution
*New methods of maintaining soil

Question 3

Another name for land consolidation?

Answer 3

Enclosure Movement

Question 4

What is Land Consolidation?

Answer 4

The introduction of land enclosures which put an end to farming on strips of land.

Question 5

What were the results of land consolidation?

Answer 5

The land was under production, and more land could be ploughed by one farmer.

Question 6

What is the enclosure?

Answer 6

British farmers planted their crops on small strips of land. This led to the small farmers losing their land and way of life, they had to search for work.

Question 7

What is livestock?

Answer 7

Livestock are domesticated animals raised for food, fiber, or labor, such as cattle, sheep, pigs, and chickens.

Question 8

What led to the increase of agricultural farming?

Answer 8

The development of new tools for farming

Question 9

How did the new crop rotation system help with soil fertility?

Answer 9

It allowed the continued use of land without exhausting its fertility.

Question 10

How did the agricultural research help with farming?

Answer 10

It helped the farmers to be educated with the new system in place to make life easier.

Question 11

How does industrial revolution help with farming?

Answer 11

This provided the agricultural sectors with inputs and markets

Question 12

True or False. Did Britsh agriculture advanced more rapidly than any European nation.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

In what century did the agricultural production take place?

Answer 13

18th

Question 14

List the 4 factors of the revolution?

Answer 14

*The increased availability
*A favorable Climate
*More Livestock
*Improved crop yield

Question 15

Explain the increase in availability?

Answer 15

The increase in available farmland was due to changes in landholding patterns and new farming methods, which replaced the inefficient open-field system that left land unplanted to prevent soil nutrient depletion

Question 16

Explain the a favorable climate?

Answer 16

Clover and turnips, with nitrogen-rich roots, helped replenish soil, and turnips were useful because they could stay in the ground through winter.

Question 17

Explain livestock ?

Answer 17

The increase in livestock from grazing these plants changed much of Europe’s diet.

Question 18

Explain improved crop yield?

Answer 18

The increase in meat consumption and the use of livestock-produced fertilizer, combined with the end of the ‘little ice age’ and milder summers, greatly improved crop production by the early 18th century.

Question 19

Effects of the Agrarian Revolution?

Answer 19

Displacement of the peasants as a result of the enclosure
movement.

Continued development in scientific innovation

Urbanization led to the development of cities as the
displaced peasants poured into towns thereby creating
cities.

The closure of cottage industries as more industrialized
means of production developed.