Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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The agricultural and industrial revolution.
the agricultural revolution started in 1600 in england and great britan scottland ireland (north, south)
people were farmers or som1 who grew their own crops.  the enclosure movement was around the 1600.
the movement entailed the public lands so ny1 could farm it. this movement carried on in the 1700. larger land owners took small land owners. so the small land owners worked for the big farmers or they moved to cities. people are coming up with new inventions for farmers so in the early 1700 jethro tull thought that wen people were seeding their land for theis crops and he thought alot of the seeds were getting waisted from hand spreading them so he invented the seed drill. made harvest easier. charles tousone coppied a duch idea called crop rotation. it ment that each year you would rotate the crops and the soil would renew the crops. these improvements were major. they made metal plows instead of wood plows. the plows last longer. horses plowed. they made replaceable blades for the plow. becouse of this more jobs were in cities. in great britan natural resources are high wich are iron, coal, and cottan. the the industrial and ag, revolution started in great britan. great britan had alot of natural resources, labor and land. the reason hey lots of iron to. great britan also had lots of rivers wich equals food, transportation,  and water mills wich was used for power. season to seoson can b dif. not all cities had rivers running through them. the techstile industries made clothes sheets. this made production shoot up. daniel refo. this engine contained over 2000 wheels. it produced ALOT of silk wich was powerd by water and became huge. factories are coming in and the 1st factory was a cotten and silk factory. at a flat rate a day. steem engines are now being used. steem is being used as a source of power. transportation and communication is better. and this made it easier. info was easier to receive.

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