The Industrial Revolution And Agricultural Revolution

By 1750 U.S was mainly agricultural, this meant the country was essentially pre-industrial and domestic. According to our text 9 out of every 10 Americans lived on a farm (2). Households were generally engaged in subsistence farming and production was done mostly for home consumption. America had an immeasurable amount of fertile unused land that the government gave away (2). At the time of George Washington's inauguration in 1789 the U,S population comprised of 4 million people. The population had doubled to 8 million at the time of the War of 1812 and then again to 16 million in 1835. This rapid population growth did not stop until 1858, we did however continue to increase in number just at a slower pace, hitting our 100 million mark in 1915, and 300 million in 2006 (3). As the population rapidly increased so did the output of farm labor.

As the Earth’s population grows at breakneck pace over the next several decades, who will feed the world’s people? Agriculture has undergone an extensive expansion and transformation throughout the last few centuries, beginning with the Industrial Revolution of the late 1700s. New technology allowed for better and greater methods of production. With the development of modern technology, people try to think some way can plant less, get more. Many farmers plant only one crop in the same place year after year. However, those against monocropping claim that it is very hard on the environment and actually less profitable than organic means of farming (“Monoculture Crops – Learn About The Effects Of Monocropping”). In addition, the destructive nature of agriculture has recently shown its hand. While our supermarkets, convenience stores, and restaurants are filled with abundant food options, people forget to ask themselves where all this food comes from. Globalization has opened up economies of scale and has allowed people to tap into different types of products, whether that is food or clothing. But the availability of an increased mass market comes at a cost. However, today, the modern farming techniques have grown into a headache for farmers and governments alike, because they are the consequences of overproduction, industrial waste and other problems arising from the modern methods of agriculture. Thus, modern techniques are harmful to environments, animals, and humans.

Very nice post, Bailey. I thought it was really surprising that the crops the Native Americans domesticated ended up being sixty percent of the world's agricultural wealth. We really do owe them a dept. It would be interesting to learn how they “bred” these plants in order to produce plants that gave a good harvest. You have to imagine it took a lot of trial and error.

Richard Bach once said “A tiny change today brings a dramatically tomorrow” This quote means that without the Industrial Revolution or the Agriculture Revolution, the world would completely be different. “The Industrial Revolution grew the world's population from 375 million people in 1400 to around 1 billion people in the early nineteenth century. (Strayer 828) The Agricultural Revolution grew the world’s population from 6 million people to 50 million people.”

The Industrial Revolution was a time of great changes that occurred in Britain in the 1800’s. but did you know that those changes shaped our world into what it has become and still affect us today.

The Old Regime, which applies to the general life and institution of pre-revolutionary Europe during the eighteenth-century, led to the Agricultural Revolution. Due to shortage of land required to nourish a growing population, a series of innovations known as the Agricultural Revolution began in the Netherlands. These advanced ideas in farming technology included the establishment of crop rotation, initiation of enclosures, and new methods in farming techniques. This advanced European’s lives economically; however, the consequences included the escalation of social separation between the wealthy and the poor.

As the 1700s drew to a close, England began to rise as a sole Industrial power. Transforming the way of work, the Industrial Revolution heightened in materialized and machinery production. Migration and Immigration into the country’s cities was prominent, people moved towards an illusion of prosper. Nevertheless, working these factories was a state of forbidding conditions. The living conditions were comparable, both lacking of a sanitary, healthy status. The economy prospered in declining conditions. Consequently, the hardships resulted in growth of economic wealth.

The Industrial Revolution was an extremely efficient course of change that spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. Looking back on the Industrial Revolution you can say that it was a revolution of progress in a multitude of ways. Progress, by definition, is “forward or onward movement toward a destination”. In the sense of a revolution, the Industrial one moved toward a destination of advancement that was acted upon by the course of change within its economic, political and social boundaries that led it to progress.

Farming, or agriculture, is the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and the raising of

The agricultural revolution is one of the most important events in human history. Also referred to as the neolithic revolution, it converted nomadic individuals who relied on constantly following animal migrations for survival into settlers. The need to travel for hunting had diminished and farming villages began to spring up, which led to the beginning of early civilizations. Due to the significance this revolution had on developing society, historians have been searching for more information regarding it. While there is a limited amount of information on the time period where this took place, the knowledge that has been gained can paint a picture that describes what may have occurred. What we know now can give us an idea of answers to questions such as how the agricultural revolution began and the results it had on the first civilizations.

There are many regions of the Earth where the Agricultural Revolution occurred separately and independently. First, the Agricultural Revolution first emerged in the Fertile Crescent around 9000-7000 B.C.E. With that region’s environmental advantages, the people in the Fertile Crescent grew barley, wheat, lentils, and figs, and domesticated goats, sheep, and many other animals. From the Fertile Crescent, agriculture spread to China and Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa. Both regions developed Agriculture independently, growing various crops and animals, such as millet. After agriculture developed in China and African regions, it spread towards the Southeast Asia, later reaching the New Guinea Highlands in 7000-4000 B.C.E. The people from this

The prospect of agriculture changed dramatically over the industrial revolution. Many jobs that would have been done by hand would start being able to be done on mass by machines or animals. England was a vast portion farmland in the 1700s and 1800s, this meant that the more farming improved the more money England would have. In the 1700s farming was a skill and job of the lower classes of England but in the 1800s they started to become better paid and a respected life style. The most important people between aristocracy and gentry then started to own the land and countryside. New fertilisers and harvesting techniques were introduced resulting in increased productivity and prosperity. Despite the phenomenon of urbanisation and industrialisation

The agriculture revolution was the most ground-breaking revolution out of domestication, industrial and the information revolution. Agriculture improved and evolved the domestication. Even the industrial revolution would not have been possible if agriculture was not widely used beforehand. Domestication permitted individuals to stay in one place, building their lives and communities to last for ages, instead of living the dangerous nomadic life. They were able to finally rely on crops, that were going to grow for sure, instead of uncertainly gathering from foreign lands. Whether it be extensive or intensive horticulture, it was a very time consuming and hard labour job.

The Industrial Revolution came after the Agricultural Revolution having similar end at the end of their respective revolutions is an example of how history can lump times together and claim “progress as an aim.” The agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution do help each other in sustaining their growth whether it was economically, socially, or in power because both revolutions provided the other with dependant part; the Industrial Revolutions provided mass produced machinery to the agricultural society and in return the agricultural revolution provided the material for the mass produced items. C.P Snow describes the “agricultural and the industrial-scientific, are the only qualitative changes in the social life living condition

The Agricultural Revolution was a wide-scale shift for many human cultures that moved from the hunting and gathering lifestyle to a lifestyle of agriculture and settlement; this transition is what Harari would describe, in his book Sapiens, as “History’s Biggest Fraud,” (Harari 77). The Agricultural Revolution allowed humans to see how plants grew and developed and helped them learn to replicate this and domesticate plants. Harari discusses several points that argue how harmful the Agricultural Revolution actually was. First of all, he argues that hunter-gatherers were more physically healthy than the average farmer: “[hunter gatherers] were less in danger of starvation and disease” (Harari 79). At the start of this revolution, farmers found that they could produce a large sum of food however this food was not necessarily healthy for individuals. The main source of food was wheat and this did not lead to a very balanced diet. The diet of a forager consisted of many different vitamins and minerals that cannot be found in the few plants, such as wheat, potatoes, and rice, that were produced by farmers. The lack of nutrients led to a society of more people affected by malnutrition. Secondly, the entire community relied on the fields and granaries of the agricultural village. It was not uncommon for a surrounding village to take over the settlement leaving the individuals with no home or source of food. In a nomadic society, the village could get up at any point and more readily