Agricultural industry industrial revolution

Question 1

Agriculture

Answer 1

The practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.

Question 2

agricultural revolution

Answer 2

An unprecedented increase in food production in Britain arising from increases in labor and land productivity (thanks to new tools and innovations in growing practices) occurring between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries.

Question 3

crop rotation

Answer 3

The practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons. In Britain during the agricultural revolution, this was done by growing clover and turnips on fields that had previously been left fallow, which boosted overall food production.

Question 4

selective breeding

Answer 4

The process by which humans use animal breeding to selectively develop particular, desirable traits, such as meat mass or milk production in the case of cattle and wool prodction in the case of sheep.

Question 5

the enclosure movement

Answer 5

The process whereby landowners in Britain closed off previously “common” land to the use of commoners, many of whom often had to thus migrate into the cities to find new jobs in factories as a consequence of no longer being able to live off the land.

Question 6

Industrial revolution

Answer 6

A period of global transition of the economy towards efficient manufacturing processes that followed the Agricultural Revolution. It started in Great Britain, then went to continental Europe and the United States and began from around 1760.