Dbq Agriculture

Q6. I believe that the revolution in agriculture was vital to the Industrial Revolution. The Agriculture Revolution helped in paving the way for the Industrial Revolution in England. The Revolution allowed new ideas to grow in the minds of others on way they could improve and industrialize their nation. The Agricultural Revolution would make extensive changes for the better in years to come. Without the agriculture improvements, nobody would know what farming would be like today.

To begin, wealthy land owner would buy land from the village farmers. Once they had purchased the land, they enclosed their land. Enclosing their lands would enable them to cultivate larger fields. The new landowners would use their larger fields to experiment on seeding and have rusting methods in the hope of boosting crop yields. These new farmlands allowed for two important results. First, landowners were encouraged to trey new agricultural methods. Second, large landowners forced small farmers to either become tenant farmers or to give up up farming and move to the cities. On the contrary side, some may have argued that the wealthy taking over their farmland was a bad idea. For example, some farmers were angry due tot he fact that they would have to give up their land; however, this proved to help

His eyes were opened when he saw that the normal way of sowing seed by scattering it across the ground was wasteful. He realized that the majority of the seeds failed to even take root. Jethro added to the Agricultural Revolution by creating the invention called the seed drill. He created his new invention in 1701, it granted farmers the ability to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths. The new seed drill was a magnificent invention that helped farmers boost their crop yields, many landowners had been working to achieve this same goal. This invention was widely successful as a larger share of seeds took