How was the big problem of famine in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries bringing the revolution in agriculture with new machinery

1. AGRICULTURAL
REVOLUTION

2. Definition
• An agricultural revolution or agrarian revolution is a period of transition from the pre-
agricultural period characterized by a Palaeolithic diet, into an agricultural period characterized
by a diet of cultivated foods; or a further transition from a living a more advanced and more
productive form of agriculture, resulting in further social changes

3. What did people need?
• People needed a change to evolve and make their regular work easier.
• Humans’ creativity let the world go on as they create new techniques to improve in the farming
business.
• It was needed and impulse to increase the productivity of crops.

4. Example of Agricultural revolutions
• The Neolithic Revolution (around 10,000 B.C.), the initial transition from hunting and gathering
to settled agriculture.
• The Arab Agricultural Revolution (8th–13th centuries), diffusion of many crops and farming
techniques across Arab world and Muslim world.
• The British Agricultural Revolution (1750–19th centuries), an increase in agricultural
productivity in Great Britain which helped drive the Industrial Revolution.
• The Scottish Agricultural Revolution (18th–19th centuries), it specifically led to the Lowland
Clearances.
• The Green Revolution (1943–late 1970s), a series of research, development, and technology
transfer initiatives that increased industrialized agriculture production in India.

5. Family Life in the pre-agricultural
revolution
• Political power and influence was in the hands of rich landowners.
• there was another class of landowners called yeomen between the rich and the poor, then they
were less.
• The great mass of the population were craftsmen and labourers.
• People had drinking problem with gin.
• Many towns in England were improved in the later 18th century when men called Paving or
Improvement Commissioners were formed by Acts of Parliament.