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Agriculture Over The Industrial Revolution

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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

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