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Mind Map by Fiona Corbet, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Fiona Corbet
almost 7 years ago
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Agricultural Revolution
- From 1750 on
- Before 1750
- Open field system
- Land around villages = 3 huge
open fields called Commons
- narrow scattered strips for growing crops
- Farmers wasted time travelling
between various scattered strips of
land
- No hedges or fences
- Weeds hard to control
- Crops destroyed when
Animals trampled on
crops
- Diseases spread quickly among animals cos all
grazed together on the common
- To rest the land one whole field had to be left fallow (unplanted)
- To rest the land one whole field had to be left fallow (unplanted)
- Weeds hard to control
- No hedges or fences
- Farmers wasted time travelling
between various scattered strips of
land
- narrow scattered strips for growing crops
- Land around villages = 3 huge
open fields called Commons
- Open field system
- Before 1750
- Huge changes in agriculture in Britain
- Open fields divided up into small farms
- Fences used to enclose fields
- Easier to farm a compact block of land rather
than scattered strips of land
- Diseases and weeds easier to control
- Not good for everyone - peasants now they had nowhere to
graze their animals
- Not good for everyone - peasants now they had nowhere to
graze their animals
- Diseases and weeds easier to control
- Easier to farm a compact block of land rather
than scattered strips of land
- Fences used to enclose fields
- Open fields divided up into small farms
- Robert Bakewell
- Improved breeding of cattle and sheep
- Separated male and female herds of cattle
and sheep so that breeding could only take
place at certain times. This led to stronger
healthier heavier animals
- Charles "Turnip" Townsend
- Introduced New system of crop rotation
- Meant no fields left fallow
- So all fields being used so old fallow
field was used to plant turnips or
clover. Turnips used to feed cattle
during winter = stronger, healthier
heavier animals
- So all fields being used so old fallow
field was used to plant turnips or
clover. Turnips used to feed cattle
during winter = stronger, healthier
heavier animals
- Meant no fields left fallow
- Introduced New system of crop rotation
- Charles "Turnip" Townsend
- Separated male and female herds of cattle
and sheep so that breeding could only take
place at certain times. This led to stronger
healthier heavier animals
- Jethro Tull
- Invented the seed drill so that seeds would not be
wasted and seeds now planted in rows
- Invented the seed drill so that seeds would not be
wasted and seeds now planted in rows
- Improved breeding of cattle and sheep
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