2.4.8 - L2 - The Agricultural Revolution

Who benefited the most from the process of enclosing land?

• Peasants

• Parliament

• The animals

• Large landowners

Which of the following means to prepare land to grow crops by plowing soil?

• Agriculture

• Domestication

• Cultivate

• Nomadic

Besides crops and society, what else did the revolution provide people? Choose the best answer.

• Music, Law, Estate, Food

• Clothing, Law, Estate, Milk

• Livestock, Music, Meat, Law

• Livestock, Milk, Meat, Clothing

• Food. Just food.

This development caused small farmers to become tenant farmers.

• selective breeding

• crop rotation

• enclosure

• mechanization

What made it possible to feed large groups of people?

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

What major effect did crop rotation have?

• It led to bigger harvests and more food.

• It led to smaller harvests and less food.

• It led to peasants owning less land.

• It led to bigger, healthier animals.

_________ is another word for farming.

• Agriculture

• Domestication

• Cultivate

• Nomadic

Why was the Agricultural Revolution an important part of the Industrial Revolution?

• Because there was more food, people were healthier, so they didn’t care as much about buying consumer goods.

• Because the peasants had more land, there were fewer people available in the cities to work in factories.

• Because the large landowners had more land, they focused more on agriculture than on industry.

• Because there was more food, it cost less to buy, so people had more money to spend on other things.

having more than what is needed

• prehistory
• surplus
• Bronze Age
• agriculture

another word for farming

• agriculture
• technology
• specialization
• shrine