THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

It is the period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity that occurred during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

• Scientific Revolution

• French Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

It is a system of land cultivation under which the common land is divided into three parts of which one or two in rotation lie fallow in each year and the rest are cultivated.

• Three Field System

• Three Common Land

• Three Fallow Land

• Three Cultivated Land

It is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.

• Leaning

• Gleaning

• Cleaning

• Beaming

The First Agricultural Revolution took place around _______

• 5000 BC

• 10000 BC

• 15000 BC

• 20000 BC

The following sentences explains the disadvantages of the enclosure movement to small farmers ex

• They had to pay for the fences/walls around their farm

• They could no longer glean or gather wood.

• They are not forced to rent lands

• They work for someone else.

What are the benefits of the Enclosure movement to large landowners?

• Farming was more efficient

• Didn’t need consent of the village to experiment with new crop methods

• Could obtain cheap labor

• All of the above

Who invented the seed drill?

• Jethro Tull

• Charles Newbold

• Joseph Boyce

• Cyrus Mc Cormick

Who is Sir Richard Weston?

• He invented the Three Field System

• He invented the Cast Iron Plow

• He wrote the first description of crop rotation

• He wrote the first description of the Selective Breeding

What made it possible to feed large groups of people?

• specialization
• rice paddies
• New farming methods and tools
• Crop rotation

Why did farming lead to permanent villages? 

• people grew too much food to travel 
• people needed to build storage for crops
• people needed to stay and tend their crops
• people had to make pottery to hold fo