Unit 3

One of the fundamental characteristics of modern economic growth is the introduction of mechanisation:

• True

• False

It is the theory that population growth is potentially exponential. while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.

Among the characteristics of modern economic growth we can find:

• Disarticulation of national and international markets

• Declining productivity

• Increased importance of the service sector

• Gradual loss of weight of agriculture in the economy

Productivity growth in the context of the First Industrial Revolution took place especially in:

• The agricultural sector

• The industrial sector

• The service sector

• No increase in productivity

Liberal societies allow for a better allocation of resources by the market by introducing legal inequality of individual rights:

• True

• False

The Industrial Revolution will be accompanied, on a political and social level, by:

• The development of democratic systems in Western Europe

• The development of a more peaceful period

• The break with the order of the Ancient Regime

• The consolidation of the feudal system

It played a key role in the First Industrial Revolution:

• The enclosure of the camps

• Converting fields into communal areas

• The elimination of the three-year rotation system

• a and c are correct

It refers to the appropriation of common land, enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their rights of access and privilege.

The First Industrial Revolution saw the development of animal husbandry:

• Intensive

• Extensive

• Vaccine

• Sheep

Other innovations introduced in the livestock sector in the context of the Industrial Revolution included:

• Stabling

• Feeding livestock with fodder plants

• Crossbreeding of different species

• All of the above are correct