An agricultural revolution is a transformative period marked by the shift from hunting and gathering to farming, characterized by enhanced crop productivity and social changes. Key examples include the Neolithic Revolution, the Arab Agricultural Revolution, and the Green Revolution, each significantly impacting agricultural practices and societies. In pre-agricultural times, power dynamics favored rich landowners, while the majority were craftsmen and laborers, facing societal challenges such as alcohol dependency.

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.