What do you mean by the term agricultural revolution?

Answer 1

Agriculture means farming

Revolution means a change.

It basically means changes in farming. Lots of new farming methods were introduced. At first people owned a few strips of land scattered over a couple of fields but farmers would swap with each other so they had a big chunk of land instead. Eventually people each had big bits of land which was called enclosures. High farming is the application of science to farming to make new machinery. For example, when the seed drill was invented many people lost their jobs. Farm owners would hire laborours to plant each seed individually but when the seed drill was intruduced many people lost they're jobs. However this saved farmers alot of money.

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The term's been used (often incorrectly) of three distinct events:

1. The Neolithic Revolution - the beginning of agriculture ten millennia or so ago;

2. The Agricultural Revolution proper - new crop rotations and techniques that raised productivity in the 18th and 19th centuries, starting in England and ontinuing with mechanisation into the 20th century;

3. The Green Revolution - the introduction of high-yielding hybrid wheat varieties in developing countries from the 1960s.