agriculture & the industrial revolution
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Agriculture & the Industrial Revolution
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"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"
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animal / human labor replaced with mechanized sources of power
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Physics, chemistry, and biology became tools to dissect, examine, and then reconstruct agricultural systems to make them better than any that had previously existed on earth
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Inhabitants of the ever-expanding cities became increasingly dependent on the transport,
preservation, and storage of food
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Four-field rotation
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Fencing of large tracts of land to produce more efficient units of production
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Intensive breeding for desirable traits could produce improved cattle, horses, and sheep
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Science gave plant breeders a clear understanding of how traits were controlled by genes on chromosomes, and how they
could be altered by selective breeding
Gregor Mendel
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Inventions transferred much of farm labor to machines
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Cotton gin by Eli Whitney (1793)
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Harvesting and threshing functions integrated into one machine: the combine
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Fertilizers indispensable in maintaining yields
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Labor released to city/factory
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Commercial revolution
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Consequences more lands brought under
cultivation
producing more food in greater quantities more cheaply
cheaper at the market
more & cheaper food means longer life expectancies esp. children
distributed over wider geographic/demographic areas
fewer people needed on farm
Labor migration to city & factories