"It was simple , monarchy owned land
. ↳ before a 34 crop
,
2 plots of land crops were g
rotation was used On .
limited Communication People lived in small Villages- Isolated .
rients (prev soil exhaustion . (a 1/4/1/3 left fallow).
limited production not many schools or knowledge .
↳ Replaced bud 4 year rotation Wheat
. , barley , Clover , turnip .
Turnips
"Peasents treated badly Constantly under threat of starvation as
.
they relied on harvest One poor one could kill
. 1000s SI BETTER CEREAL CUCTIVATION
↳
grow right crops on right soil prevents soil exhaustion
, . They
Open field system and using fertiliser increased output per acre .
"Openfields were divided into strips and worked on by villagers .
1 with more land under cultivation , more crops like wheat inc
"This was very common in medival England. land owned by -
Lord of manor Villagers worked together had land to grow food.
.
,
Keu individuals
I Jethrotull invented seed drill in 1701
·
due to pop growth demand for food boosted High prices due to war inflation
,
. " Robert Bakewell invented Selective breeding -
1760s
Napoleonic wars) which encouraged investment in agriculture as , ↳ a crop rotation introduced ouCharlestowns head- 1770s
profits rose . ↳ Arthuryoung wrote not new methods , spreadideds .
-
1770s
CAUSES
1) ENCLOSURE WHY was it so imp
openfields were reorganised and redistributed Commoners could no longer
·
.
growing Urban popul
grow food as they pleased .
I
ensured there was
C
farmers land was all in one area and enclosed / fences t hedges. ↳ land owners made
I took
away Majority of commonland. Peasents couldn't collect fuel. idl enterprises like C
I Poor suffered rich benefitted
. In wealth gap I it was a supplier
-tricultural
,
benefits also a customer , labor
·
allowed for more scientific methods- draining of poor quality land .
↳ agricultural developm
scientific breeding to imp livestock quality
. intro machinery
revolution
· -
"Parliment passed 4000 acts of enclosure --
20 % +land being en 1 pop grew 280 % from
↳ in 1750 , 15 % lived i
2) IMPROVED SOLL FERTILITY
"
farmers inc use of fertilisers like lime which increased Nitrogen levels
in the soil .
"This inc crop production , so more animals were Gred , they could be
led over winter , not slaughtered More manure was available , prev
enting soil exhaustion .
↳ led to greater profits land which had previously considered unpro --
ductive +un profitable could be bought into use winvestment infertiliser